LIB 604 Libraries in the School Curriculum

Spring 2010

Developing
Leadership
 How can you develop leaders?
What’s the best way to get to Carnegie Hall?
– Practice!

– Practice!

– Practice!
 Where Can You Develop Leadership Skills?
 Skills Develop through Frequent Practice – in a Safe Place
 Clear Task Objectives and Careful Observation are Key to
Supportive Evaluations
 Constructive Feedback Benefits the Individual and the
Group
 Clear and Sincere Feedback is a Motivator
 Evaluating to Generate Supportive Feedback is Useful
Everyday
 Build Your Leadership Skills at Toastmasters
 How to Develop Leadership Skill with 2Cs

1. Develop Leadership Skill - Confidence

– Confidence here is about building the trust in people
that you can lead to the group’s end objective. That
confidence is built when they know you have
capability of carrying the responsibility of a leader,
and the skills and competencies that can lead them to
that end result.
• Develop Leadership Skill – A Criterion for Success in Your C
areer
 How to Develop Leadership Skill with 2Cs

2. Develop Leadership Skill - Communication

– When you develop leadership skill early,
especially on communication – you win trust
from the people in your unit. It helps them
understand what is the overall objective, and
it helps them understand how they are part of
the bigger picture that helps
achieve the corporate goals.
• Develop Leadership Skill – A Criterion for Success
in Your Career
A video on developing leadership skills
Another video
 Developing Teachers’ Leadership Skills

Just do it!
– Whether taking on traditional or emerging
roles, a major characteristic of teacher leaders
is that they often teach full- or part-time and
then assume other responsibilities. An
additional characteristic is that they have
generally learned the new role just by doing it. 
• ERIC Digest. Author: Gehrke, Nathalie.
Publication Date: 1991-04-00 
A pdf version of the original microfiche is
available here.
 Steps to teacher leadership
But do it with purpose!
– Teacher leadership requires active steps to be taken to
constitute leadership teams and provide teachers with
leadership roles. A culture of trust and collaboration is
essential, as is a shared vision of where the school
needs to go, clear line management structures and
strong leadership development programmes. In the
developed and emergent teacher leadership schools,
barriers to teacher leadership were mainly external to
the school. In the school we described as exhibiting
restricted teacher leadership, internal factors were
also key barriers.
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Interesting metaphor
So, how to develop leadership in the school?
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