This lecture disscusses the Chapter 8 of Murphy's book: how to develop teacher leaders. It requires system thinking, which means that promoting teacher leadership should not stay at the superfacial level but go into the organisational structure. Secondly, teacher leadership should be included in teacher training. Principal Risku takes his school as an example, explaining how is the teacher leadership carried out in practice.This lecture discusses how to develop teacher leaders according to Murphy (2005) chapter 8. The development seems to start with removing the obstacles for teacher leadership. Systemic thinking and valuing professional development turns out to be essential. An attempt is made to find practical issues by discussing the observations made during the school visits. During the discussion shared leadership emerges as an essential topic.

Before any lecture either open or save to your computer the assigned PowerPoint presentations.

Assignment before the lecture: Murphy, J. (2005). Connecting teacher leadership and school improvement. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. Chapter 8

Open or save the PowerPoint slides related to this lecture EDLS310_S8_L1.pdf​

Listen to the lecture and after listening do the assignment below.

Write your learning experiences into your personal Reflective report

Assignment after the lecture: None here but in the assignment after the session task no. 1 refers to this lecture.