WorksheetsTeacher Leadership - What Kind of Leader Will You Be?
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
◦Building organizational capacity
◦Facilitating change
◦Empowering teachers
◦Engaging stakeholders
◦Enhancing teacher professionalism
all helps lead to ______________.
Which of the following attributes do you consider most important in a teacher leader?
Ability to delegate
The leader is a learner
Never quits
More authoritarian than democratic
Outside of classroom instruction what are some additional duties you may have as a teacher?
Before or after school tutoring.
Supervising school areas such as halls, buses, or the lunchroom.
Cleaning the school grounds over summer.
Supervising activities such as clubs or dances.
Teaching is sometimes called a "lonely profession" because...
Teachers are typically the sole authority figure within their classrooms.
School culture often discourage teachers from asking for help.
Teachers are usually responsible for organizing, conducting, and disciplining their own classes.
All of these are true.
Aside from in-class instruction, teachers typically spend most of their time on...
Collaborating with coworkers.
Student discipline.
Lesson planning/prep.
Working at home.
As a teacher you can expect...
Every administrator to have the same expectations for their teachers.
Every school to have the same level of cooperation and support among the teachers.
Every parent to react the same way to the same situation.
Every school, parent, administrator, colleague, and student to be a new experience - just like any job.
-Does this example describe a leader who is sensitive to their team?
Having watched both video interviews of Mary Tanner and Robert Reynolds, which teacher leader would you be more likely to follow?
Robert
Mary
What attracted you to the leader you selected in question 22?
Personality/Likability/Mannerisms
Their answers about what makes a teacher leader
Stories about their leadership experiences
Experience
Would Mary or Robert make a better principal?
Mary
Robert
After answering these questions and viewing the video and web resources, what kind of teacher leader description below best fits you?
The leader is a learner
Decisive, authoritarian...if you want something done right, do it yourself
A delegator
A leader by concensus
