Lecture 4 Community of leaders

Lecture 4 Community of leaders

In this lecture professor Alava describes in a detailed way how leadership can be shared in many ways at school. He begins with discussing school as a loosely coupled organization, which actually builds a large gray area where leadership seems to be undefined. Then, he discusses how leadership is shared between the principal and teachers, stakeholder, students, education provider (or owner), and with parents. At the end he concludes, that actually a community of leaders is formed with this new interpretation.

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

Assignment before the lecture: none

Open or save the PowerPoint slides related to this lecture EDLS250_S2_L4.pdf​

Listen to the lecture, and afterwards do the assignment given below. (mob version)

Assignments after the lecture:

  1. Reflective report. Write your learning experiences into your personal reflective report. The reflective report for session 2 will be submitted after lecture 6.
  2. Read Linda Lambert’ article “Beyond Instructional Leadership” available at: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/may02/vol59/num08/A-Framework-for-Shared-Leadership.aspx
  3. Discussion 2/5. After the lecture and having read the article, write a brief commentary on the discussion area of the following: What are concrete topics that can be found/should be found in the gray area of leadership – sharing leadership with teachers, students, stakeholders, education provider, and parents. After writing your own ideas, please comment also the ideas of others.

Submit your Discussion 2/5 here.