By: JVC Abatayo
As a future school leader, I really have learned
a lot on what would be the most appropriate things to do when employing
leadership strategies that would help your teachers unleash their full
potentials and for them to excel in the field of instruction. I’ve acquired so
much information regarding the ways of solidifying and augmenting teacher
career advancement, providing opportunities for teachers for them to
collaborate and expand their horizon by sharing strategies with each other,
formulating appropriate pieces of feedback that are constructive or
transformative, and listening heartily and responding to their concerns. These
strategies will surely be applied if I will become a school leader in the near
future.
To be specific, it is really a must for a school leader to
encourage his/her subordinates to go out from their comfort zones to start
rising from the ashes. They need to be enlightened about the beauty of career
progressions so that they can be more effective and efficient in handling
instruction. They need to be inspired in achieving greater heights and learning
how to evolve as educators for them to be more and competent, which will also lead
them to provide what’s just and fair for the students. At the end of the day,
the learning of the students is the top priority.
Another, I know it’s a cliché to say that “no man is an island”
but it is really true because, in the field of education, no one can stand on
his/her own. With that, it is obvious that collaboration is a must. By encouraging
your subordinates to work together to thrive and prosper together, you can
surely expect a great quality of instruction. Everyone should be supportive of
each other because the bottom line here is that we all just have the same
vision, mission, goals, and objectives. We all want to improve the quality of
teaching and learning. Thus, fruitful collaboration must always be there to
ensure organizational progress.
Lastly, communication is always the key to have a
smooth-sailing way of understanding teachers individually. As a school leader,
you need to be there to listen heartily to their concerns because they need to
voice out what they feel and you need to know as well what their experiences
and struggles are (if there are any). You need to be willing to give
appropriate and honest feedback and judgments because they deserve to be
informed about what is really happening and why it is that they need to accept such
constructive or transformative criticisms or comments from you. Thus, effective
feedbacking is really necessary to avoid conflicts and to settle disputes.
