UNIT 1: Leading Students and Being The Leader in the Classroom

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What is this lesson about?

"Leadership is such a primal, natural part of human behavior, that breaking it down into something academic and quasi-scientific seems a little out of place, like dissecting an ice cream sundae with an electron microscope."

Understanding Leadership Theory gives one an understanding that it is "part social science, part psychology, and part organizational theory. It takes a little emotional awareness, and a little philosophical groundwork." (Leadership Toolbox, 2016)

This lesson will guide educators to the importance of leadership theories and their impacts in the classroom.

Focus Objective

In this lesson, learners will understand Leadership Theories such as:

•Trait Theories

•Contingency Theories

•Behavioral Theories

•Power and Influence Theories

Learners will also understand the role a teachers plays as a leader in the classroom.

Introduction

Click to watch this inspirational video message about Leaders that care! [1]

A few questions to ponder while reviewing the following resources:

Why leadership development?

Why is leadership development so important?

What are different ways to lead people?

Are teachers assumed to be leaders?

How can a teacher be a leader in the classroom?

Reading

Read the following description of Leadership Theories:

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Key Leadership Theories: Helping identify Areas to Improve Your Leadership Skills

Since the early 20th Century, business leaders and psychologists have tried to identify key leadership theories and models to reflect what exactly makes a good leader and what a true leader is. How he/she behaves and how they motivate employees to success has been studied endlessly.

As you would expect, the more people that study a concept, the more theories result, so this article picks out the key leadership theories that have formed the backbone of our understanding of leadership. More importantly, these theories can be used to help develop your skills as a leader.

Continue reading at http://www.educational-business-articles.com/key-leadership-theories/

Read the following "They are watching":

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Every moment students spend in our rooms, amid the business of the day, the paper pushing and content coverage, amid the set-up and tear-down of projects, they hear everything we say. About ourselves. About the world. About them. They watch how we handle ourselves when we are pressed for time and when we receive gifts and when we screw things up.

So yes, deliver your curriculum. Yes, provide rich, hands-on, authentic learning experiences. Offer rigorous academic challenges. Raise the bar. Coach and guide. Nurture. Push. Advise.

But also be: To truly lead is to pay attention to who we are in the downtime, in the margins. To help them become the best people they are capable of becoming, we must first be those people.

Continue Reading at http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/teacher-leadership/