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Topic: Teaching as Leadership:The Highly Effective Teacher’s
Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap
Author of Book : STEVEN FARR
Prepared by: Fatima SalamResearch Student, Department of Management Sciences
The Islamia University of BahawalpurEmail: [email protected]
Directory of Human Resource Management e.Publications June (2011) Vol. 1, No. 1
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“Teaching should be such that what is offered, is perceived as a valuable gift
and not as a hard duty.”
- Albert Einstein
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Chapter no.2
Invest Students and Their Families• Highly effective teachers• Invest• Extraordinary academic achievement• With the help of students’ families and other influencers
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• “Investing the students” means developing their desire for academic success and their belief in their ability to achieve it.
• Teachers as leaders must recognize their own success depends on:
• not just the leader’s vision Ambitious goals
• the leader’s motivation
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Shaping student‘s Mindsets
Student investment = “i can“ x “i want“
Conciously or not students ask themselves
“Can I do this?“ “Do I want to do this?” yes to both questionsWith uninvested students, your efforts will lead to very little learning.Receptive, eager.
Belief desire
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Why some students resist investment?
Intelligence as a malleable quality. That is, they see intelligence as something you earn, not something you are.
Students who believe intelligence is . . .
Fixed Malleable
Do not believe hard work relates to success.
“Smart” is earned with hard work
Choose easier assignments Tackle challenges
Give up when they fail Learn from mistakes.
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Collaborating with students Families and Influencers
Value of hard work and value of achieving big goals.
Mrs. Morgan Dixon story illustrates:First, offer additional hands and energy that boost her students eagerness to learn. Information on student’s interests and background thatimproves her instructional choices.
Beat the negative messages.Tanya Morgan DixonHigh School History,Georgia
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Assuming Responsibility for family Involvement
Teachers must engage student families in student learning.
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Communicating with Students’ Families
Thorough and frequent communication
Joseph Almeida heard families wished they could do more to help their children learn
The students gain exposure to the material before it is taught.
[PowerPoint] slides in English and translated into Spanish he hosted once a month to preview the mathematics content
he will be covering in the following month
Joseph Almeida, fifth grade
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Strategies for Investing Students
• varied and creative investment tactics
A welcoming environment
A Culture of Achievement
Instruction and Learning
Building relationship with students
Promoting values that drivestudent investment
Establishing the relevance ofcontent
Creating a sense of communityin the classroom
Making progress transparentand celebrating success
Empowering students withchoice and responsibility
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Creating a welcoming environment
A culture of Achievement
Instruction and Learning
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A teacher should:
• spend time in getting to know his students and care about them
• resolve disagreements• Host morning meetings• Work on creating self-confidence & esteem• realize his/her emotional & social worries• Build relationship with students:
Trust
Investing families
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Some additional ways to build relationship with students:
• Information gathering, surveys, and sharing• Spending time together in and around school• Sponsoring student activities.• Engaging students outside of school• Making yourself available to students
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Creating a sense of community in the class:
• Building relationship between student and student to enhance learning.
• taking care of each other• Encouraging each other.• Acknowledge student birthdays.• Insensitive issues handling
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Creating a welcoming environment
A culture of Achievement
Instruction and Learning
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• Academic Achievement Is Highly Valuable i.e. Focussing on “I want”
• Hard Work Leads to Academic Achievement i.e. Shifting the mindset• Achievement Requires Team Effort
“All-for-one and one-for-all.”
“Together Everyone Achieves More (T.E.A.M.).”• assignments in which students have collaborated to produce a high-
quality product.
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Making Progress Transparent
• Students may be dramatically improving their reading comprehension, or writing skills, or chemistry knowledge, and yet still feel they are not making progress. They therefore derive no benefit from the “I Can” component of investment, so teachers must find creative ways to illustrate progress and learning.
• They inspire and inform the teachers’ hard work and improvement as well.
• manage their own progress tracking sheets
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Creating a welcoming environment
A culture of Achievement
Instruction and Learning
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Establishing the relevance of content
• “Why are we learning this?”
• Different modes of learning should be used for this purpose
Empowering students with choice and responsibility• need to have some control over their learning.• more willing• But teachers set up a context for student in which any
choice that the student makes is right for him/her.
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