"I'm Not Where I Want to Be": Teaching Principals' Instructional Leadership Practices

Autor/inn/en	Wallin, Dawn; Newton, Paul; Jutras, Mickey; Adilman, Jordan
Titel	"I'm Not Where I Want to Be": Teaching Principals' Instructional Leadership Practices
Quelle	In: Rural Educator, 40 (2019) 2, S.23-32 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0273-446X
Schlagwörter	Principals; Administrator Attitudes; Instructional Leadership; Rural Schools; Foreign Countries; Administrator Role; Self Efficacy; Small Schools; Expectation; Leadership Effectiveness; Elementary Secondary Education; Faculty Development; Goal Orientation; Educational Environment; School Community Relationship; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Principal; Schulleiter; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Ausland; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Expectancy; Erwartung; Führungseffizienz; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Kanada
Abstract	This paper reports on the ways in which teaching principals in rural schools in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, Canada enact instructional leadership within the five leadership domains conceptualized by Robinson, Lloyd, and Rowe (2008). Although participants suggested that they were "not where they wanted to be" in their efforts to enact instructional leadership, their actions demonstrate exemplary practice in this regard. The nature of the discourse perpetuated by leadership groups and teachers' associations that equates instructional leadership with classroom visits only has the effect of decreasing teaching principals' self-efficacy as instructional leaders. We argue for recognition of these leaders' efforts to support learning, and a reconstitution of the role of the teaching principal such that instructional leadership expectations are realistically manageable for leaders in small rural schools. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	National Rural Education Association. e-mail: theruraleducator@gmail.com; Web site: https://journals.library.msstate.edu/ruraled
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01