1. Developing Teacher Leaders
Cherice Montgomery, Ph.D.
STARTALK 2009
Chicago Marriott

2. Novice
Expert
Whats the difference?
Experienced
3. Vision
Knowledge
Vision
Experience/Time
Skills
Reflection
4. Support
Capacity
Feedback
Access
Information
Mentors
Personal Learning Network
Validation of Practice
Challenge
Vision
Resources
5. Connections
6. Community
7. Expanding Leadership Capacity
What products, practices, and perspectives might alert us that we are in the presence of an emerging leader?
2) What factors make it difficult for teachers to see themselves as leaders?
How might we connect STARTALK teachers in ways that build their professional capacity?
How might we provide emerging leaders with more opportunities to exercise their leadership capacity in the STARTALK community?
What has your program taught you about mentoring and
leadership?
8. What session participants said . . .
9. What is a leader?
What products, practices, and perspectives might alert us that we are in the presence of an emerging leader?
Change Agent
Coach Dont necessarily play (i.e. teach) better than the professional basketball players, but good at crafting collaborative learning environments & motivating others
Classroom Manager (routines & procedures), Curriculum Developer (backward design), Decision-maker (materials, etc.)
Collaborator
Continuous Learner
Reflective Practitioner
Flexible Thinker (resourceful, takes initiative)
Problem Solver
Visionary
Mentor
10. Barriers to Emerging Leadership
2) What factors make it difficult for teachers to see themselves as leaders?
Cultural:younger teachers deferring to older ones
Emotional:Insufficient Affirmation, Feedback, & Recognition
Social:Lack of Political Savvy
Practical:New paradigms of teaching/learning teacher must function as a leader in the classroom (leading students to learn)
Professional Risk:Decision-making, hard work, heavy responsibility, what if I make the wrong decision?
Psychological:Self-perception
11. Building Connections
3) How might we build professional community and capacity?
Connect participants to a professional/state organization (global community) and do a series of follow-up workshops through that organization
Come back a 2nd or 3rd year in tiers have a teacher/leader strand
Online STARTALK Community For networking and online professional development (open to all former participants)
Ongoing local or online chapters (to build on prior knowledge, scaffold, build up from there) CONSISTENCY is key!
Ways to open professional opportunities to those who are not STARTALK teachers
12. Exercising Capacity
4) How can emerging leaders exercise their leadership capacity in the STARTALK community?
Allow them to lead
Leadership training/workshop
Mentoring
Subset of participants return and are mentored
Trainer of trainers model
13. Lessons Learned
What has your program taught you about mentoring and
leadership?
14. Reprise
DEFINITION - What does an emerging leader look like?
2) PERCEPTION - Why dont some teachers see themselves as leaders?
COMMUNITY - How might we connect STARTALK teachers in ways that build professional community and capacity?
PRACTICE - How can emerging leaders exercise their leadership capacity in the STARTALK community?
EXPERIENCE - What has your program taught you about mentoring and leadership?
15. What questions were not discussed that we should have considered?
16. The Power of Understanding
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Risk Comparison with Respect to Knowledge & Time
17. Developing Teacher Leaders
One Person at a Time
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