Instructional Leadership Quiz

In what decade did the concept "instructional leadership" emerge?

• 1960s

• 1970s

• 1980s

• 1990s

Who were the first researchers to coin the term "instructional leadership"?

• O’Donnell & White

• Horng & Loeb

• Hallinger and Murphy

• Lunenburg & Lunenburg

Which of the following definitions does not apply to instructional leadership?

• Leading learning communities, in which staff members meet on a regular

• Involves setting clear goals, allocating resources to instruction, managing the curriculum, monitoring lesson plans, and evaluating teachers.

• Includes deeper involvement in the core business of schooling, which is teaching and learning.

• A process where "leaders and their followers raise one another to higher levels of morality and motivation"

True or False

Instructional leadership is different in many ways from the roles undertaken by a manager or school administrator.

• True

• False

Whose theoretical model has been the one used most widely, to pursue appropriate investigations of instructional leadership?

• Hallinger et al.

• James MacGregor Burns

• Hersey and Blanchard model

• Bruce Avolio

All of the following composed the three dimensions of instructional leadership EXCEPT _________________.

• defining the school's mission

• linking with community partners

• managing the instructional program

• promoting a positive school climate

True or False

Instructional leadership requires principals to free themselves of bureaucratic tasks and focus their efforts on improving teaching and learning.

• True

• False

Defining the school's mission as an IL component involves _______________________________.

• supervising and evaluating instruction

• cooperating with staff, ensuring the school continuously runs on clear, measurable, and time-based goals

• monitoring student progress

• promoting professional development

Promoting a positive school climate as an IL component involves _____________________________.

• active participation in stimulating, supervising, guiding, and monitoring teaching and learning in the school

• coordinating the curriculum

• Incentives for teacher success

• Ensuring that the staff incorporates performance goals into their daily routines

Which of the following is NOT included in the four skills essential for instructional leadership according to Whitaker?

• Need to be resource providers

• Need to be effective task managers

• Need to be instructional resources

• Need to create a visible presence