Personal Leadership

• Examine personal rationale for being a teacher leader.
• Analyze characteristics of effective teacher leaders.
• Describe the concept of self leadership.

Personal Leadership Styles and Strengths

• Analyze personal strengths and their implications for leadership practices.
• Examine the value of working from one’s strengths.
• Identify ways in which personal strengths influence leadership style.
• Determine how strength-based leadership can support a community of practice.

The Context of Teacher Leadership

• Describe reciprocal influences between stakeholders, organizations, and teacher leaders.
• Differentiate between macro and micro politics in schools
• Analyze the implicit and explicit power dynamics in a school.
• Examine ways in which teacher leaders can utilize their understanding of a school’s dynamics to influence change.

Contemporary Theories of Leadership

• Explore recent research regarding the aspects of leadership.
• Compare and contrast theories of leadership.
• Distinguish between transformational and transactional leadership.

The Teacher Leader's Role in Capacity Building

• Define capacity building.
• Examine the roles that teacher leaders play in capacity building.
• Evaluate the practice of distributive leadership as it pertains to capacity building.
• Analyze the influence that distributive leadership has on teams.

Personal Leadership in Practice

• Examine the personal leadership practice of long-term and short-term goal setting.
• Describe effective communication practices for leaders.
• Apply personal strengths to improve communication practices.
• Explore various pathways of teacher leadership.