Transcript SESSION 8

GREAT QUOTES FROM THE
LITERATURE REVIEWS !!
DR. LYN SHARRATT
OISE/UT - M. Ed. Course 1048
February, 2002
• Gillian and Jen…Participative
• Community/Parent involvement has many benefits, for the
students, such as improved attitude and improved
achievement (Cunningham and Cordeiro, 2000;
Henderson, 1982), improved attendance, behaviour, and
homework completion (Cunningham and Cordeiro, 2000),
students are more likely to continue on to post secondary
education (Henderson, 1982), and there is an improved
school climate (Tangri and Moles, 1987).
• The task of the Principal is to unleash and channel the
talent which exists in each faculty (Journal of Ed’l
Administration, 1992)
• Marie and Jingping … Moral Leadership
• The more critical work of leaders, according to Starratt
(1991) is to create a school-wide learning environment that
promotes the moral integrity of learning as the pursuit of
the truth about oneself and one’s world, however complex
and difficult that task may be”.
• Beck (1994) has identified standards of good practice
which involves being conscious, encouraging dialogue,
modelling and being reflective, which when adopted, will
aid administrators in providing ethical leadership.
• Burns (2000) consciously communicates the theory that
reinserting morality into schools will do much to curb
violence and, by extension, other social problems.
• Guy and Gary…Participative
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SBM classification for school improvement includes:
1) teaching for understanding
2) using Technology
3) educating all students
4) integrating services (Wohlstetter, 1997)
• SBM attempts to transform schools into communities
where the appropriate people participate constructively in
major decisions that affect them (David, 1996)
• Gillian and Stephen…Instructional
• The emphasis of leaders on activities which directly affect
the growth of students is central to the concept of
instructional leadership (Hopkins, 2000)
• As Educational Leaders continue with the day to day
running of schools, they challenged to decide which
aspects of the various leadership models are most useful in
their current and future practice.
• Heather and Hazel…Moral Leadership
• According to Sergiovanni (1992) when administrators are
acting asd moral leaders they are compelled to do the right
thing not just what is right.
• Begley (1999) states, “it is not enough for school leaders to
merely emulate the values of the other principals currently
viewed as experts. Leaders of future schools must become
reflective practitioners”.
• School leaders must be aware of the personal values that
they bring to a decision and the competing values around
them.
• Peter and Pat…Participatory Leadership
• Mentoring must be conceptualized as a continuum of
Learning: one that enhances the leadership capacity for
both the experienced and the new or aspiring leaders,
through a continual process of refection and dialogue
(Spence, OPC Register, 2000).
• It is vital that systems support its leaders through enabling
them to refine and develop their interpersonal skills
(Johnson and Pickersgill, 1992).
• John and Daniel…Participative
• The effective participatory leader must therefore release
some or much of their control for making decisions
regarding how the school is to be managed to the other
stakeholders in the school.
• In participative leadership, it becomes evident that a
leader’s traditional role as a visionary and problem-solver
is changed to one of promoting a culture where multiple
points of view can be espoused.