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Integration: School Heads' Development Program - Foundational Course - Module 1

The document discusses the role of the school head as an instructional leader. It defines instructional leadership as actions that promote student learning, such as setting goals, allocating resources to instruction, managing curriculum, and evaluating teachers. It also notes that instructional leaders serve as a resource provider, instructional resource, communicator, and effective presence. Key behaviors of instructional leaders include making suggestions, giving feedback, modeling instruction, supporting collaboration, and providing professional development opportunities.

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Integration: School Heads' Development Program - Foundational Course - Module 1

The document discusses the role of the school head as an instructional leader. It defines instructional leadership as actions that promote student learning, such as setting goals, allocating resources to instruction, managing curriculum, and evaluating teachers. It also notes that instructional leaders serve as a resource provider, instructional resource, communicator, and effective presence. Key behaviors of instructional leaders include making suggestions, giving feedback, modeling instruction, supporting collaboration, and providing professional development opportunities.

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SCHOOL HEADS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM |

FOUNDATIONAL COURSE | MODULE 1

Integration
Module 1: The School Head as Instructional Leader

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Instructional Leadership
The actions a principal takes to promote growth in
student learning (Flath, 1989)
– setting clear goals
– allocating resources to instruction
– managing the curriculum
– monitoring lesson plans, and evaluating teachers
– makes instructional quality a top priority
– now evolving to A LEARNING LEADER (DuFour,
2002)

2| School Heads’ Development Program: FOUNDATIONAL COURSE | MODULE 1


Knowledge and the Instructional Leader
(Whitaker 1997)

• The principal is a/an…


–Resource provider
–Instructional Resource
–Communicator
–Effective Presence

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Behaviors of Instructional Leaders
(Blase and Blase, 2000)
• making suggestions
• giving feedback
• modeling effective instruction
• soliciting opinions
• supporting collaboration
• providing professional development
opportunities
• giving praise for effective teaching

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