TALIS School Leadership for Learning Insights from TALIS 2013 (eBook)

Oecd (Autor)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
180 Seiten
OECD Publishing (Verlag)
978-92-64-25834-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) is the largest international survey of teachers and school leaders. Using the TALIS database, this report looks at different approaches to school leadership and the impact of school leadership on professional learning communities and on the learning climate in individual schools.

It looks at principals’ instructional and distributed leadership across different education systems and levels. Instructional leadership comprises leadership practices that involve the planning, evaluation, co-ordination and improvement of teaching and learning. Distributed leadership in schools explores the degree of involvement of staff, parents or guardians, and students in school decisions.

How are principals’ and schools’ characteristics related to instructional and distributed leadership? What types of leadership are favoured across countries? What impact do they have on the establishment of professional learning communities and positive learning environments? The report notes that teacher collaboration is more common in schools with strong instructional leadership. However, about one in three principals does not actively encourage collaboration among the teaching staff in his or her school. There is room for improvement; and both policy and practice can help achieve it. The report offers a series of policy recommendations to help strengthen school leadership.

Inhalt

Foreword 5
Acknowledgements 7
Table of contents 9
Executive summary 17
Reader’s guide 21
Chapter 1 Leadership for learning at school 25
Introduction 27
Research questions 28
TALIS 2013 Study and focus of the report 28
Main findings 30
Reflection on key findings 35
Policy implications 37
Structure of the report 39
Chapter 2 Educational leadership for learning 47
Educational leadership for school improvement 48
Professional development through learning communities 50
School leadership and professional learning communities 51
School leadership roles conducive to developing professional learning communities 52
Educational leadership and creating a learning climate at school 54
Summary 55
Chapter 3 What determines school principals’ leadership styles? 61
Instructional leadership in lower secondary schools across countries and economies 62
Characteristics of principals and their instructional leadership 65
Distributed leadership in lower secondary schools across systems 71
Characteristics of principals and distributed leadership 72
Integrating instructional and distributed leadership 82
Summary 88
Chapter 4 School leadership and professional learning communities 91
Professional learning communities at school 92
Relationship between educational leadership and establishing a professional learning community in schools 101
Relationship between school leadership types and a professional learning community 106
Summary 106
Chapter 5 School leadership and the development of a positive learning climate 111
Creating a learning climate at school 112
Relationship between educational leadership and establishinga learning climate in schools 116
Relationship between school leadership types and creatinga learning climate within a school 119
Summary 120
Chapter 6 School leadership and the development of a learning climate and professional learning community in primary and upper secondary school 123
Instructional and distributed leadership in primaryand upper secondary education 124
Professional learning communities in primaryand upper secondary education 129
Relationship between educational leadership and establishing a professional learning community in primary and upper secondary schools 135
Learning climate in primary and upper secondary education 140
Relationship between educational leadership and creating a learning climate at primary and upper secondary school 142
Summary 145
Annex A Technical notes on measures derived from the TALIS 2013 teacher and principal questionnaires 147
Annex B Methods and techniques of analysis 155
Annex C Employment, career and legal framework of principals 165
Annex D Additional tables on school leadership for learning 175

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 92-64-25834-5 / 9264258345
• ISBN-13: 978-92-64-25834-1 / 9789264258341