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Teacher Leadership teacher-leadership image - Coggle Diagram

- - - - planning extra-mural activities
      - selecting textbooks
      - selecting instructional materials
      - fundraising
      - grade committees
      - learning area committees
- - - - better use of research and assessment
      - data used to drive curricular instructional decisions
    - - teacher retention
        
        roles, time and opportunities for teacher leadership
      - improved student achievement
      - expertise spreads to other less experienced teachers
    - - increased organisational skills
      - increased time management skills
    - - overall school achievement
    - - improved self-efficacy
      - increased optimism
      - teacher effectiveness
      - growth in instructional abilities
        
        promotes higher order thinking skills
        
        increased understanding for the need for diversified instruction
        
        increased academic achievement :check:
        
        more effective instruction
        
        for gifted learners
        
        for learners with special education needs
        
        individualised assessment design
        
        better understanding and curriculum planning
      - improved goal setting
- - - - authoritarianism
  - - - no time to learn from each other
      - no time to lead each other
      - work overload
  - - - cycle of exclusion
      - poverty
        
        under resourced schools
        
        learners with HIV/AIDS related illnesses
        
        context matters
        
        under qualified teachers
        
        poor socio-economic conditions
        
        curriculum overload
        
        teacher demotivation
        
        capacity for leadership can be undermined
      - marginalisation of educators, learners and parents
      - malnourished and hungry learners
      - illiterate and uninvolved parents
    - - **weak, unaccountable authority structures
        
        lack of trust and transparency
        
        powerful dominate and deny others the right to speak or be heard
        
        autocratic leadership
      - demotivated teachers
- - - - peer review programmes
      - critically assess each others' practices
    - - teacher leadership can be nurtured
      - expertise can be spread
      - essential sounding boards for their work
      - ways to test out their ideas
      - ways to present evidence
      - voice to be heard
      - learn new skills
      - work with empowered people
  - - - learn and practice new skills
      - lead new initiatives
      - exchange ideas with other practitioners
    - - design classroom techniques
- - - - discipline policy
      - pregnancy policy
      - policies for the different sporting codes
      - homework policy
      - uniforms
    - - planning
      - facilitating
    - - in-service training to colleagues
      - joint planning
      - providing curriculum development knowledge
      - sharing new methods
      - developing work plans
      - induction and mentoring of new teachers
      - peer teaching
      - peer observation
    - - school vision
      - school mission
      - marketing
    - - time-tables
        
        duties
        
        exams
        
        special occasions
        
        fire drills
      - break duty
      - assembly
      - stock
        
        furniture
        
        sports equipment
        
        subject resources
      - textbooks