Friday, March 18, 2011

Melchie Ignacio's Reflection on School Leadership

School leadership is the process of enlisting and guiding the talents and energies of teachers, pupils, and parents toward achieving common educational aims. We can have strong and successful school if we also obtain strong administrators. Generally, we associate school leadership with school administrators. People in these positions are in charge of making decisions, which run the school.

School leader are not merely focuses on the administrators. It is because leadership entails a number of different parts and can come from any position in the school. Teachers can also provide leadership in their classroom and through activities and other extracurricular activities. Even students can provide leadership in certain situations such as club’s president, a point guard for a basketball team, or a class officer. To have a good school leadership, all people need to be willing to share responsibility and power. There should always be a distribution of tasks and responsibilities among each members of a school organization. With this, we can discover hidden talents from our teachers and students as well as from the parents.

This distribution of power can lead to trust between staff and administration. This trust emerges when administrators and teachers work together to benefit the school. With the trust between leader and follower, good school leadership will also have excellent communication. Effective leaders need to communicate and problem-solve. Having good communication and social skills and having a good plan can make leadership easier and solving problems smoother. It is because all members of the school organization is considered very important and their ideas and opinion helps in solving problem that may arise in school.

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