LEADING SCHOOLS TO BETTER TEACHING AND LEARNING

ARIEL T. PEREZ

School leadership ranks high in terms of importance in school reform. Although teacher quality stood above everything else, school principals remain the pivotal source of leadership influence. They portray a major role in developing a “professional community” of educators who support one another in enhancing instruction.

The most important part of being a great leader is to cultivate a sense of leadership in others, in which, team-based school transformation runs at its best. Effective principals tirelessly perform to improve teachers’camaraderie and achievement by emphasizing on the quality of instruction. They also inspire teachers for continual professional learning. Aside from that, great principals emphasize research-based approaches to improve the teaching and learning cycle.

Effective leadership view data as a form of not only to identify problems, but to evaluate their nature and causes. The learning-focused principals assist teachers enhance their potentials either by principal-teacher collaboration or with the aid of school leaders like the grade level chairmen and subject coor di nat or s.

Schools may be relatively small institutions, but their leadership challenges are far from being simple. Effective school principals need to maximize resources at hand.

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The author is Head Teacher VI/ Officer-in-Charge of Amsic Integrated School, Division of Angeles City