ELT Leadership

Leadership is a science and art of influencing people or groups of to think and act through
positive behavior in order to achieve common goals effectively and efficiently.
ELT leadership is a broad concept that focuses on the notion of ‘building an English learning and teaching
community’: building the capacity of teachers and others in the institution community to provide programs in
teaching and learning of the highest quality.
Teaching and leading are pretty
much the same thing!
• Passion and commitment to the success of our
students, taking risks with creative use of materials and
activities, charisma and vision are also essential features of
teaching. This is why teachers tend to be great leaders in the
classroom.
Educational leaders’ roles
• Educational partnerships
• Choosing to lead and improve a school in extremely challenging circumstances and change local contexts
• Partnering another school facing difficulties and improving it, either as an executive head of a federation or as
the leader of a more informal improvement arrangement.
• Acting as a community leader to broker and shape partnerships and/or networks of wider relationships across
local communities to support children’s welfare and potential
Cont..
• Working as a change agent or expert leader within the system, identifying best classroom practice and
transferring it to support improvement in other schools.
This is the widest category and includes:
• heads working as mentor leaders within networks of schools, combining an aspiration and motivation for
other schools to improve with the practical knowledge and guidance for them to do so;
• heads who are active and effective leaders within more centrally organized system leadership programs,
for instance within the Consultant Leader Program, School Improvement Partners (SIP) and National
Leaders of Education (NLE), trained through the NCSL;
• heads who with their staff purposely develop exemplary curricula and teaching programs either for
particular groups of students or to develop specific learning outcomes in a form that is transferable to
other schools and settings.
Thank You