UNIT 11

KEPIMPINAN:
KURIKULUM & PENGAJARAN
DAN TRANSFORMASI
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REVIEW
 UNIT 11

Curriculum Leadership

The Central Figure is the Teacher

Curriculum / Instruction
Defined as intended learning outcomes
Created by teachers, principals, testing, professional
organizations, standards groups

The implementation of curriculum

Academic freedom to choose methods
Align with measurement strategies
Curriculum Development
Top down
Teacher to the top
Integrated tools

The latter seems to work well if all leave their agendas at

the door and meet to look at data and brainstorm
suggestions to fix the problem areas all can support
consensus decisions
Teacher as curriculum leader
Should know:
Process of curriculum design
Process of curriculum assessment
Process of implementing intended learner outcomes
Process of engaging teachers to ensure that the
intended learning outcomes are taught through
instructional methods that work for the students
result in student success
As a Principal You Must
Assess needs in your building and district
Be a Leader and a Team-Player on several teams
Central Administrative Team
District Level Team
School Level Team
Have a knowledge base regarding the value of
curriculum and purpose/function
Principal continued..
Be able to plan and develop the structures needed
to ensure that students succeed
Be able to plan and develop the structures needed
to ensure that the success of your building
contributes to the success of the school (goal
alignment and common vision)
Principal continued.
Be positive
Believe all kids can learn. Attitude is everything
Motivate students
Effectively evaluate programs and teaching plan.
Understand the culture of change
Find the leadership approach that you are
comfortable with
Purpose of Session
Explore the term Instructional leadership and what
it means to our roles
Examine research of what is effective instructional
leadership
Link instructional leadership to the current agenda
regarding improvement, improvement improvement
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What is it?
Educational leadership
Curriculum leadership
Leader of learning
Transformation leadership
Transactional leadership

Its whats behind the title that matters!

 Instructional leadership
Instruction = the process or act of teaching: education

Leadership = a person who rules, guides, or inspires

others
Leadership Matters!
A highly effective school leader can have a dramatic
influence on the overall academic achievement of
students.
Michael Fullan 2005
Leadership Matters even more!
It is now more than 20 years since leadership was
identified as one of the key components of good
schools by HMI, who stated that, without exception,
the most important single factor in the success of
these schools is the quality of the leadership of the
head.
Dept of Education & Science
Why the importance of this type
of leadership?
Improved classroom instruction is
the prime factor to produce student
achievement gains
Odden & Wallace
Why the importance of this type
of leadership?
Another great irony of public schooling is that the office
of curriculum and instruction traditionally has so little
influence on. curriculum and instruction.

Too much of the educational leadership literature is long

on harmony, consensus and sentiment, feel good
pressures that float high above the hard fundamental
necessities of school leadership. Most especially, leaders
need practical ways to monitor and require-effective
instruction and high quality curriculum.
M Schmoker
Why the importance of this type
of leadership?
When leadership is focused on results, on urging a
formal, frequent review of the impact of instruction,
teaching improves.
Results Now M Schmoker

For school improvement to occur instructional

leadership needs to be in existence.
A Mission of the Heart, Public Agenda
What are the elements of
Instructional Leadership
Resource provider, instructional resource,
communicator and visible presence (Smith and Andrews)
Encourager, facilitator of the study of teaching and
learning, facilitator of collaborative efforts
amongst teachers, establishing coaching
relationships with teachers, using research to make
instructional decisions & using adult learning
principles (Blas & Blas)
Direct assistance to teachers in their day
to day activities, development of
collaborative groups amongst staff,
designing effective staff development,
curriculum development, & use of action
research
Glickman, Gordon and Ross-Gordon
What are the elements of
Instructional Leadership contd
Defining schools mission, managing curriculum
and instruction, & promoting a positive school
climate
Hallinger, Murphy et al

Understands effective practices in curriculum,

instruction and assessment and the ability to work
with teachers on the day to day problems that
relate to these topics.
Elmore
Process
Define Instructional Leadership

Share with partner

 Leadership Matters!
Sustainable leadership doesnt equivocate. It puts
learning at the centre of everything leaders do.
Students learning comes first, then everyone elses in
support of it.
Stoll, Fink and Earl 2003
Instructional Leadership
Practice :Viviane Robinson 2007
Establishing goals and expectations
Strategic resourcing
Planning, coordinating and evaluating teaching
and the curriculum
Promoting and participating in teacher learning
and development
Ensuring an orderly and supportive environment
Instructional Leadership
characteristics : David Hopkins
Ability to articulate vision and values about student
learning and achievement, and to make connections to
behaviour
Understanding of pedagogy
Understanding of development and maintenance
Strategic orientation and to plan medium term
Instructional Leadership characteristics contd:
David Hopkins
Understanding capacity and its role in sustaining
change
A commitment to promoting enquiry: the how
rather than the what
Commitment to professional development and
managing a teachers life cycle
Ability to engender trust and provide positive
reinforcement
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What does instructional
leadership look like?
If you were to go into a school /preschool where there
is effective instructional leadership what would you
see, feel, hear?
Make a list of 8-10 concrete bits of evidence?
Would it look different in the different sectors ie
preschool, primary, secondary?
School improvement is most surely and thoroughly
achieved when teachers engage in frequent,
continuous and increasingly concrete talk about
teaching practices... capable of distinguishing one
practice and it's virtue from another.
Judith Warren
 Enhancing Our Educational Leadership:
Classroom/Instructional Leadership Development
School Curriculum Planning, Organization & Delivery Skills
To Strengthen Human Relationship Skills
To Re-engineer Teacher Preparation: Enrich Pedagogical Skills
for Multi-Class/Multi-Grade and Oversize Class Teaching, and
Effective Remedial Teaching
Classroom Management Skill (e. g, `Class Without Teacher
Situation)
Strengthening Evaluation and Assessment Skill
Having Computer Access & Continuous Computer Skill
Upgrading
Create and Facilitate Platforms for Knowledge and Experience
Sharing with `other schools, or International Education
Institutions and Communities.

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 Curriculum Leaders of a Secondary
School
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