Leadership, as stated by Tony Robbins, is the ability to inspire a team to achieve a certain goal. It is to influence and help others become the better version of themselves, building their skills and achieving goals along the way. However, leadership is also how an individual chooses to lead one’s life, setting an example for others to follow. A growing body of evidence shows that leadership has the greatest impact on employees and is the key factor in the success and development of an institution.
In the school organization, Hall, et al. (2015) posited that, to be an effective leader, a school head must have a positive influence on teachers in the achievement of the goals of the organization. This is due to the fact that teachers are the driving force in the success of the students and the school. However, teacher quality is the main ingredient in producing excellent learners and a quality school. With this, school leaders must be successful in driving teachers’ professional development for the continuous improvement of quality education.
In line with DepEd Memo No. 035 series of 2016, quality education depends on a growing number of effective school principals to push professional learning communities (PLCs) collectively to the shared responsibilities and collaborative actions for both teachers and students. Successful school leaders can create change in the professional development of teachers through a synthesis of ideas backed up by theories and best practices. According to the memo, Learning Action Cell (LAC) is a strategy for the improvement of teaching and learning that helps teachers in the construction of new knowledge about instruction as well as in revising traditional beliefs and assumptions about education, community, teaching, and learning (Little 2003) to suit the present needs of learners.
A study on the relationship between school leadership and professional learning communities in 2016 found that leadership styles are significantly related to teachers’ participation in Professional Learning Communities. Today, successful school principals understand that they need to utilize various leadership styles to motivate their teachers to find out and
resolve problems together. Here are five leadership that could be utilized in the aid of teachers’ professional development:
Strategic leadership determines where an organization is heading and how to get there. Thus, it is a leadership style related to the restructuring of school organizations and engaging teachers.
Transformational leadership involves assessing teachers’ motives, satisfying their needs, and valuing them. It deals with building school vision, establishing school goals, providing intellectual stimulation, offering individualized support, modeling best practices and important organizational values, demonstrating high-performance expectations, creating a productive school culture, and developing a structure to foster participation in school decisions.
Ethical leadership is the demonstration of normatively appropriate conduct
through personal actions, such as honesty, integrity, and trustworthiness, and the promotion of such conduct to teachers through two-way communication, reinforcement, and decision-making (Brown and Trevino, 2006).
Learning leadership enhances school principals’ understanding of their individual leadership strengths and weaknesses where they master new ways of approaching challenges and overcoming obstacles that improve interactions with their team members by building strong bonds, managing conflicts through successful leadership transactions, and coaching their team members to develop their potential.
Political leadership is a multidimensional phenomenon that emphasizes the recognition and significance of diversity to the interests and demands of the schools’ teachers and constituencies where it involves resolution and management of conflicts and struggles through various strategies, such as alliance-building, negotiation, compromise, participation, and a democratic process that are necessary for formulating and implementing the school plan and achieving the aims of the school.
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