Lecture 1 deals with organizational and cultural barriers for teachers’ leadership as presented by Murphy (2005) chapter 6. Evidence shows that hierarchy and solitarian leadership hinder teachers from becoming leaders in the school.

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 6

Open or save the PowerPoint slides related to this lecture EDLS310_S7_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.