1 / 13

Teaching As Leadership

Kevin M. Johnston Director, MSU Teaching Assistant Programs kmj@msu.edu. Teaching As Leadership. Workshop Goals. Questions I’d like us to address today:. How Do We Define Leadership? How Might We Consider Ourselves as Teacher/Leaders? How Might We Think of “Modeling” As an

redell
Download Presentation

Teaching As Leadership

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Kevin M. Johnston Director, MSU Teaching Assistant Programs kmj@msu.edu Teaching As Leadership

  2. Workshop Goals Questions I’d like us to address today: • How Do We Define Leadership? • How Might We Consider Ourselves as • Teacher/Leaders? • How Might We Think of “Modeling” As an • Opportunity for Leading? MSU TAP Workshop - January 2011

  3. Workshop Objectives By the time we’re done you should have… • A Basic Knowledge of Influential Leadership • Theories • A Record of Attributes YOU Associate with • Leadership • Ideas for Thinking of Yourself as a Teacher/Leader MSU TAP Workshop - January 2011

  4. Thinking about Teaching As Leadership How Might We Consider Leadership in the Context of Teaching? One’s Leadership Self What Constitutes Effective Classroom Leadership Knowing/ Understanding How Our Teaching Reflects our Goals (Modeling) MSU TAP Workshop - January 2011

  5. Identifying YOUR Notions of Leadership Please Answer the Following Question/Share Answers with Your Colleagues Who from your past would you consider to be a leader? Why? What leadership characteristics did they have? MSU TAP Workshop - January 2011

  6. Leadership Theories General Theories Great Man /Trait Theory – Leaders Born, Arise at times of Great Need/ Inherited Qualities Behavior Theory – Leaders Made, Leadership a Definable (Learnable) Behavior Participative Leadership Theory– Multiple Involvement in Decision Making better Than One Situational/Contingency Leadership – Leadership complex, Depends on a range of factors Transactional Leadership –Reward and Punishment Based, Strong chain of command Transformational Leadership – People follow an inspirational person/ideas/encouragement MSU TAP Workshop - January 2011

  7. Leadership in Education Administrational Theories of Educational Leadership Full Range Leadership Model – University of Nebraska – Lincoln http://advisor.unl.edu/wanttoknowmore/Full-Range-Leadership.pdf MSU TAP Workshop - January 2011

  8. Teaching As Leadership Radical Pedagogies, Social Justice/Reform Education Leader Characteristics + Group Characteristics + Situational Factors + Task Factors “As an instance of leadership, teaching is an interactive process involving teacher attributes and behavior, student characteristics, physical and social settings, and particular educational tasks.” Norr & Crittenden, 1975 MSU TAP Workshop - January 2011

  9. Identifying YOUR Leadership Style / Practice Please Answer the Following Questions/Share Answers with Your Colleagues At What Times in Your Life did You Have To Take a Leadership Role? What Did You Hope to Accomplish? What (Really) Happened? In Retrospect, What Would You Have Done Differently? MSU TAP Workshop - January 2011

  10. Can Leadership be Taught? Perhaps by Unconventional Methods? - Case in Point – Combining own Experience (Parks, 2005) MSU TAP Workshop - January 2011

  11. Becoming a Teacher Leader How Can We Take Our Ideas of Leadership and Make them Par of Our Teaching? Aligning Goals, Practice and Outcomes Considering Modeling as a Means of Leadership MSU TAP Workshop - January 2011

  12. What Defines YOU as a Teacher- Leader? Please Answer the Question Above/Share Answers with Your Colleagues! MSU TAP Workshop - January 2011

  13. “ The wicked leader is he who the people despise.The good leader is he who the people revere.The great leader is he who the people say, “We did it ourselves.’” Lao Tsu

More Related