This lecture is based on Chapter 1 of Joe Murphy's book. The concept of teacher leadership seems to evolve with time. Murphy's analysis is built on two facts: teacher leadership has been limited within the classroom; education reform will not succeed without teacher leadership and participation. Concerning the Finnish context, Lecturer Risku points out that in Finnish schools, teachers are more motivated to develop their professionalism horizontally than climbing the administrative ladder vertically.

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

Assignment before the lecture: Read Murphy, J. (2005). Connecting teacher leadership and school improvement. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. Chapter 1

Open or save the PowerPoint slides related to this lecture EDLS310_S5_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: There is no assignment for this lecture because this lecture forms a coherent entity with lecture 2. So, do the assignment for this lecture in connection with lecture 2.