Teachers are natural leaders, so they say.  Rightfully, teachers can lay a claim to being leaders since they are tasked to lead the pupils on their journey.  As leaders, teachers also motivate and coach the children on what they done and how things should be done.  Without them knowing it, teachers influence the children to accomplish the goals and at the same time gain their respect and loyalty.

While teachers inspire, motivate, persuade, encourage and empower the children to bring out their best qualities, they must exhibit effective leadership to positively influence the children.

As leaders, teachers need to envision the children.  Envisioning is important as it the bridge toward creating the future, gaining involvement, alignment and commitment.  From something invisible, leaders gives people the ability to perceive what lies ahead.

Aside from envisioning, teachers, as leaders, must energize the children.  This will inspire the children to deliver the future.  They develop that drive to achieve their goals because of the high energy within them.  This high energy pushes them to look at the positive side of life and focus their attention on achieving success in all their endeavors.

Another element of effective leadership is enable.  Teachers arm the children with knowledge that will enable them to continue with the journey.  This builds their capability to achieve better results because of their belief that they have been enabled to do what is best for them.

Effective leadership, as demonstrated by the teacher, uses the magic of involvement that allows the school children to discover their potentials.  Likewise, effective leadership pushes an individual to achieve more than what he dreamed of. 

As teachers, we need to demonstrate effective leadership to envision, energize and enable the children to build a future based on what they have seen and experienced while under our care.

 

By: SHIELA R. ESCALONA | T – I | Gen. Lim Elementary School Orion, Bataan