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Empowering ICT Leadership in Schools

Explore different leadership descriptors for principals in ICT-driven schools. Are you an equitable provider, learning-focused visionary, adventurer, teacher supporter, enabler, or supervisor? Find your style to enhance ICT integration, learning opportunities, and teacher support.

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Empowering ICT Leadership in Schools

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  1. ICT leadership descriptors What kind of principal are you?

  2. Equitable provider • Principal as an individual who is the source of the school ICT resources. • Principal provides access to the ICT for all teachers and learners. • Principal secures the technical support to keep the ICT infrastructure robust.

  3. Learning-focussed visionary • Principal as an individual who is the "keeper of the school ICT vision”. • Principal maintains learning as a focus of ICT decision making. • Principal maintains a balanced perspective so that the changing nature of ICT does not "quickly overwhelm teachers."

  4. Adventurer • Principal as an individual who demonstrates a desire to be an ICT learner along with teachers and learners. • Principal is willing to experiment with new technologies and learning strategies. • Principal is an innovative educator - a principal "on the edge of knowledge" regarding ICT and learning.

  5. Teacher supporter • Principal as an individual who is "close to the classroom" and who is willing to teach learners, teachers and parents. • Principal is non-judgmental when teachers request assistance to learn ICT. • Principal encourages teachers to participate in appropriate ICT professional development activities.

  6. Enabler • Principal as an individual who creates learning opportunities for teachers and learners. • Principal is willing to "remove roadblocks" - to make things possible • Principal advocates ICT as a learning tool and is willing to defend the school ICT vision when it is challenged.

  7. Supervisor • Principal as an individual who ensures that teachers and learners are using the ICT according to the provincial/national vision. • Principal providing close supervision of teachers. • The principal understands the individual strengths and weaknesses of teachers and learners in order to "help them grow."

  8. Reference • Adapted from: • Leading, Learning, and Thinking with Information and Communication Technology (ICT): Images of Principals' ICT Leadership Research SummaryDianne Yee, Ph.D. September 27, 1999http://www.soe.waikato.ac.nz/elc/research/yee.html

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