Instructional Leadership
School executives set high standards for the professional practice of 21st century instruction and assessment that result in a no nonsense accountable environment. The school executive must be knowledgeable of best instructional and school practices and must use this knowledge to cause the creation of collaborative structures within the school for the design of highly engaging schoolwork for students, the on-going peer review of this work, and the sharing of this work throughout the professional community.
Element 2A: Focus on Learning and Teaching, Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment: The school executive leads the discussion about standards for curriculum, instruction and assessment based on research and best practices in order to establish and achieve high expectations for students.
Non-Negotiable
A non-negotiable that I decided on as a classroom teacher is that I was not willing to go through classrooms and view what was occurring without giving some form of feedback. Fortunately for me, my school has a walk-through form that gives all teachers immediate feedback. |
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Element 2B: Focus on Instructional Time: The school executive creates processes and schedules which protect teachers from disruption of instructional or preparation time.
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Honoring Class Time
My internship has taught me many things. As I’m going through my daily administrator task, it can become easy to interrupt classroom in order to complete a task. I have learned that there are other times throughout the day that a student can be pulled without disrupting class time or their education. Our master schedule was created with this in mind. |