Not Too Young to Lead
Pucella, Tanya Judd
Abstract: Educational Leadership" is a term used to describe the work of principals and administrators. The high-stakes testing environment that has been feeding the culture of accountability in our schools has led principals to increasingly turn to a more distributed leadership model that includes their teachers, thereby expanding the concept of leadership in our schools. Despite increasing opportunities to lead, a lack of formal training often leaves educators hesitant to see themselves as leaders. Therefore, there is a compelling need to address leadership development among America's teachers even as early as the preservice stage because beginning teachers are not too young to lead. Preservice programs provide numerous opportunities to begin to expose teachers to these ideas and give them the key knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to engage in formal and informal leadership roles early in their careers. Promoting teacher leadership among beginning teachers may improve retention in teachers in the induction stage, as well as assist in closing a looming gap in leadership in our schools as many veteran teacher leaders of the baby boomer generation approach retirement.
总结:
1、教育领导与QUOT是用来形容校长和行政人员的工作期限。高风险的测试环境已经在我们学校饲养了问责文化,已导致校长们越来越多地转向,包括他们的老师,从而扩大我们学校领导的观念趋向于更加分布式的领导模式。
2、尽管有越来越多的机会引领,但缺乏正规训练往往使教育工作者不愿把自己当作领袖。
3、关键知识,技能和性格有必要放在其职业生涯早期的正式和非正式的领导角色培训中。促进新教师中的教师领导。
来源:Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, v87 n1 p15-20 2014. 6 pp.