tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post3553455647807595743..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: Do not put trust in the Ministry of Mis-educationBruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-65038850773062624582010-11-26T08:27:20.359+13:002010-11-26T08:27:20.359+13:00During the past thirty years principals have been ...During the past thirty years principals have been pushed as educational leaders and clasroom teachers reduced pawns in their endeavours. This , of course, is a myth.<br />We have had principals as 'transforamational' leaders ( where are they?); principals as 'instructional' leaders ( what - passing on Ministry's 'best practices'?); principals as administrators and educational accountants ( that's more like it!).<br /><br />The only real innovations happens in the clasroom no matter who originates it. Teachers who develop exciting programmes ( who have escaped the conformist pull of imposed formulaic best pratices) are the real educational leaders.<br /><br />How school leaders can develop such people and work with other schools to share their ideas is the real challenge of their leadership. Most have lost any classroom credit they might have had. <br /><br />It is time to acknowledge teachers as co-leaders again.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-15611651893962291072010-11-25T17:27:46.045+13:002010-11-25T17:27:46.045+13:00I think you are right.Once teachers were the leade...I think you are right.Once teachers were the leaders in schools when it came to teaching and people travelled far and wide to visit them. No one travelled just to talk to a a principal - if they did listen it was just the entry ticket to get to see real teachers in classrooms.<br /><br />Future school leaders will work in tandem with their teachers- this is the only kind of leadership that will contribute new and exciting ideas. Principals as 'hero makers' of their staff and teachers as 'hero makers' of their students.<br /><br />Any other sort of principal gets in the way. Most do.<br /><br />We need thousands of 21st Century Elwyn's!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com