A good teacher needs to be able to work in a constantly evolving environment and adjust their teaching methods based on the age of their students, the resources available and changing curriculum, practices, and requirements. A Successful teacher should be a good communicator and also a good listener. A success teacher is a good leader.
The Teacher as a Leader
When a teacher works in a school or a classroom, he has to deal to a group that may be other teachers, students or a community. His work is like a leader or a manager because he has to manage a group. A good teacher should have a sound managing or leadership qualities.
While talking about leadership and management in a school or a classroom, we find that different teachers have different leadership styles and use different leadership skills. We need management training programs for teachers. It is the need of time to maintain leadership management training for teachers. In this post, we are talking about leadership management skills and leadership styles used by teachers. We may discuss this on different views:-
A Teacher is in a Classroom
When a teacher is in a classroom, he has to interact to different types of students. Some teachers are very hard workers, they work a lot of, but they got very few outputs. And some teachers are also hard workers, but they do not work so hard but they find more output than other teachers. Why do we find this change in output?
This change is by the way of dealing and way of managing. The second type of teachers knows the skill of good managing, or we may say they are a good leader. Actually, we see in real life in any organization, the manager use a different type of techniques. Hence, a teacher should use different motivational techniques in his classroom, so he may save his energy.
A Teacher is as a School Manager (Headmaster)
When a teacher is as a school Headmaster, his duty and responsibilities increases because he has to manage the school and to prove himself as a good teacher as well. Duties of a school Headmaster, especially in a Government school, are so critical if he has a quite untrained staff. Actually, in this situation, teacher has to use good leadership techniques. A lot of work that may be done by other teachers should be given to other teachers. By doing this, the Headmaster consume his energy and may use his energy in other matters.
An efficient leadership is an essential skill for achieving good results. It is useless to imagine good results in any school without it.
Leadership is an important element of the guidance process; it influences the achievements of the organization at various levels. Skilled leadership for a school in-charge or headmaster is very essential to lead and guide the activities of the subordinates of the management.
We know that managers at all levels act as leaders because they have subordinates who follow them. Leadership can instill confidence and enthusiasm in the subordinates and inculcate the urge to lead to get good work done by their subordinates.
The power of leadership is the power of integration, and there is a lot of strength in unity. The school in-charge acts as a pivot for efficient coordination between the class teacher, class monitor and children in the school.
'Leadership is the ability of a manager to inspire subordinates to work with confidence and enthusiasm.'
Just as an organization can achieve its objective only by seeking cooperation from its employees and managers to achieve cooperation; In the same way, the head of the school in the school also works to establish a better synergy between all the human resources of the school.
A good school principal or headmaster is also a good leader. Just as an effective leader looks for the cooperative attitude of the worker and builds cordial human relations, in the same way in a school, his head builds good relations with all the staff and helps him to achieve high-quality results.
Mahatma Gandhi has emphasized on becoming an example of himself for good leadership. He has said that set an example to get good output from your subordinates. Foremost, you yourself should be a good role model for your employees. They should listen carefully to what they are expected to do. His thoughts should always be given importance. We must become the change we wish to see.
A good Headmaster is also a good leader
A good Headmaster should be a good actor as well. It is not necessary to express own real emotions to everyone. Some ideas should be keeping confidential and may be exposed on proper time. Occasionally, he has to use a group vision, and occasionally, he may move with a personnel vision. He has to develop the leadership skills himself.
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