If you yourself as someone not a born leader or you feel you are incapable of being one, leadership training programs can help you improve your skills and attitudes to becoming a good and effective leader. For school heads and teachers especially, leading is a skill second nature to the profession. So, having training to becoming a leader is crucial.

As you begin learning more about leadership, you will notice you are gaining a newer perspective on things, how things are run, how finances are better managed, how you overcome obstacles, how you relate with others, and how you think and act on different situations. Of course, the change does not come overnight as being a good leader would entail lots of experiences and personal learning.

When you begin to grow as a leader, alongside with your subordinates and co-workers, you will see how important training programs are in an institution such as the school. You all begin to think together and in one direction because you have all learned to communicate more effectively your goals and how you are going to meet them. In short, it seems the entire team is now working as one.

Typically, a school leadership training program may include preparing assessment frameworks, preparing assessment tool, adapting useful tools, development of teachers as professionals, development of professional standards and many others.

Benefits would include better performing teachers in and out of the classroom, more effective school leadership and administration, schools achieving goals, learning trends in the field, keeping abreast on what is working at present and becoming ready for future events and changes, students become better achievers as they are more guided now properly, happy community as one of the end fruits, and many more.

A school leadership training program is one of the needs of the education arena today. Having one can help transform how schools are run and managed. It is high time to add this option to the plans of schools if they really want to see obvious productive changes happening in their area.

References:

Carter, G.R. & Cunningham, W.G.(1997) The American school superintendent: Leading in an age of pressure.San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Retrieved on January 2, 2015.

See S. Cromwell & J. Kolb 2004, “An examination of work-environment support factors affecting transfer of supervisory skills training to the work place”, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 449-71. Retrieved on January 3, 2015.

Waters, J.T. & Marzano, R.J. (2006) School district leadership that works. Denver, CO: Mid-continental Research for Education and Learning. Retrieved on January 2, 2015.