Good teachers - Teachers are the heart and soul of education. We cannot meet student needs without good teachers.
Building effective teams - a leader needs to build effective teams that work together to improve student learning. Without these, schools do not operate to their potential. When administrators and teachers work in isolation of each other, no growth can occur.
Poor Salary Scale - Education is not supported by community as a profession to work toward. It is not attracting people. Private business is more attractive to those entering college.
Government interference in what happens in schools. Although intentions are good, government officials who make the decisions have no idea what happens in schools on a day to day basis.This interferes with the vision and creative thinking needed as a leader. School leaders become buried with directives and paperwork.
Bringing education into the 21st Century.
There are huge demands being placed onto schools. Schools need help in seeing and balancing the expectation of the job. What exactly are schools expected to do in the curruculum, social, and behavior aspects of the school. What are socieities expectations of a HS grad?
Information Technology
Need the funding for hardware and the professional development for the staff to keep up with curriculum.
Staff struggling to keep up with new curriculum and programs that engage students in the learning process.
Leaders are frequently off campus with too many meetings to attend (e.g. various committees, steering groups), and no real help or time to get the discussed and needed changes embedded in the culture of the school.
There is a huge time conflict.
Need to adapt to instruction with information technology being dominant. This is where the students live, we need to meet them there.
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Hmm, yes, we need to meet them where they are! A seasoned teacher who is wise about the purpose of education - understands that unless we meet students where they are, we will never successfully guide them to leading the next generation.
ReplyDeleteGood teachers. Yes. As leaders we must support and encourage their growth as well as our own.
ReplyDeleteYou have quite an impressive list of imperatives.
Absolutely,good teachers are essential in developing students in both public and private institutions.But the question that I would like to pose most educators is that have the district considered or factored in some of the teacher-burnout issues that may have contributed the low attrition rate? It is imperative that leadership stop focusing on course work but promoting incentives to create retention for great teachers.
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