Name: Sahara A.

Abdula Course, Year & Sec: BSIE-3A

Instructor: Ma’am Fairudz Dalantay Subject: Special Topic 1

Questions:

1. Explain the different instructional leader traits and behavior and give example each.
 Super-visionary. Can integrate a synergy of effects that enable people, process, and
technology to link together in a way that a school achieve its vision.

Meaning: A super-visionary leader is clear about what he or she believes and knows is best for
children -- for their academic, social, and emotional learning. The leader's individual beliefs have
developed in collaboration with other stakeholders and articulated into some kind of vision or
mission statement. She/he talks and walks the school's vision. Her actions consistently align with
it. Furthermore, she has a plan for how to implement this vision and every day takes actions
towards leading all stakeholders towards this vision. The vision is consistently acted up, all
initiatives align to it, and the principal is its primary champion.
Example: A person who is ahead of his time and who has a powerful plan for change in the
future.
 Culture Builder. Dedicated to building teacher leadership, capable of constructing a shared
vision with all the members of the school community, bears ultimately the responsibility for
success or failure of the school.

Meaning: Asserts that an instructional leader's greatest challenge is changing an unhealthy

school culture into a healthy one that promotes lifelong student and adult learning. Describes
what instructional leaders should do to create healthy school cultures. States that unhealthy
school cultures tend to produce at-risk students.
Example: A teacher encounters trouble managing a class full of difficult youngsters. Within a few
days, every other teacher in the building knows of her problem—and volunteers to help. In the
same school, when a student is experiencing difficulty with an assignment or a new concept,
several fellow students step in to assist. “That's the way we do things around here.”

 Chief Learning Officer. Models learning, driven by the relentless growth of standard-based
accountability system, open to new ideas.

Meaning: The chief learning officer must help the faculty and staff overcome their fear of failure
and grapple with the difficult problems, rather than only with the easy issues. Ironically, it is in
school where we initially are taught to avoid difficult learning. It is part of the reward system of
the classroom. Those students who know the answer are rewarded by good grades and by the
teacher's approval and praise.
Example: The role of Chief Learning Officer (CLO) has been around for several years. ... For
example, millennials have a preference for microlearning, which is a big shift from ... Every
business function needs to justify their position.

 Heroic Leader. Focus on curriculum, instruction and student mastery of learning objectives,
insistent upon improving student learning.

Meaning: Conducted by a transformed and enlightened leader who seeks to transform and
enlighten others. Doing the right thing regardless of circumstances or inconvenience to the
leader or the organization.
Example: Marine Cpl. Kyle Carpenter literally dove on a grenade to protect a fellow Marine
during an attack in Afghanistan in November 2010. Both men survived but were badly wounded.
After a military investigation into exactly what happened, Carpenter will receive the Medal of
Honor at a ceremony later this year.

 Facilitative Leader. Gears on the discussion of school-based management, well focused on

school improvement plan, offers teachers the support, encouragement and challenge they
need as teachers.

Meaning: is a people–centered, quality and results driven process of developing and supporting
a culture in the workplace that facilitates goal achievement through effective relational
processes.
 Example: In the past Amazon was running on a huge loss but from 2003, CEO Jeff Bezos finally
turned Amazon into a huge profitable business after nine years. Onwards, Amazon was
considered one of the most profit-seeking organisations in the world. Jeff Bezos was able to turn
things around by concluding several distributions that were not able to perform well and also by
focusing on the workforce of Amazon. Jeff is referred to as one of the most successful CEOs as
well as leaders in the world because of his leadership skills and technique that has made
Amazon one of the largest online shopping platform in the world.

Direction Setter. Sets the direction and influence the members of the organization to link
together toward meeting organizational goals.

Meaning: DIRECTION SETTER takes responsibility for the future of the movement. Continually
thinks about the future of the organization and thinks about what needs to happen to
accomplish the mission.
Example: As the Direction Setter, you are the one who is responsible for saying, “This is where
we purpose to go as a group. here are our values, vision, and mission.” The first question that is
asked of a leader is, “Do you know where you are going?” If you fail to set direction, it will be
almost impossible to ask anyone to join with you. The blind cannot lead the blind. Leadership
implies that you know where you are going before you ask others to commit themselves to
going with you.

 Values-Led. Willing to be driven by results

Meaning: can drive improvement, providing a guide to the decisions made at a strategic level.
Values can also act as an affirming strength to for school leaders, governors, staff, children and
the wider community.
Example: “If the CEO can establish over-arching corporate Values and philosophies … nested
within … societal Values, and which meet people’s own … Values, he or she can get the whole
organization working effectively … it is our Values that move us, bind us together, push us apart,
and generally make the world go round”.

 Practicing Teacher. Promotes the values of care and equity within the school and its
decisions making process. Both people-centered and achievement-oriented. Challenges
teachers to think more critically bout how they link together personal, professional and
organizational development in an overall effort to improve curriculum, teaching and
learning. Continues to teach for at least an average of 20% of the week in order to work
closely with students. Develops teaching techniques and methods as a means in
understanding teacher perspective. Establishes a base on which to make curricular
decisions. Strengthens the belief that the sole purpose of the school is to ensure the
educational needs of students.

Meaning: refers to that set of skills demonstrated by teachers who continue to teach students
but also have an influence that extends beyond their own classrooms to others within their own
school and elsewhere.
Example: Tinisha becomes a resource provider when she offers to help Carissa, a new staff
member in her second career, set up her classroom. Tinisha gives Carissa extra copies of a
number line for her students to use, signs to post on the wall that explain to students how to get
help when the teacher is busy, and the grade-level language arts pacing guide.

2. As a future teacher, in vision yourself as a instructional leader. How can you develop yourself as
a Instructional leader?
 As a future teacher, to develop myself as a instructional leader is that, to have more
experience in teaching, to observe the teachers, students and others. In Every conflicts
situation, we learn how to analyze and solve the problems. Being open in giving feedbacks in
my work, although it is negative. Also to collaborate and socialize, to develop, improve my
self-confidence to become a instructional leader.

3. Give definitions on the following domains of career ladder of teacher.

 DOMAIN 1: Social regard for learning. Act as a positive role model for students.
 DOMAIN 2: The learning environment. Creates an environment that promotes fairness,
makes the physical environment safe and conducive to learning.
  DOMAIN 3: The diversity of learners. Is familiar with learner’s background knowledge and
experiences. Demonstrates concern for holistic development of learner’s.
 DOMAIN 4: Curriculum. Demonstrate mastery of the subject. Selecting teaching methods,
learning activities, and instructional materials or resources appropriate to learners and
aligned to the objectives of the lesson.
 DOMAIN 5: Planning, assessing and reporting. Communicates promptly and clearly to
learner’s, parents, and superiors about the progress of learner’s. Develops and uses a
variety of appropriates assessment strategies to monitor and evaluate learning.
 DOMAIN 6: Community linkages. Establishes learning environments that respond to the
aspirations of the community.
 DOMAIN 7: Personal growth and professional development. Builds professional links with
colleagues to enrich teaching practice. Reflects on the extent of the attainment of learning
goals.

4. Explain and expound how to promote gender awareness in the society.

 There is a need to be more aware of the challenges women and girls in our country still face,
and what we, as a society, can do to make a more a gender-sensitive environment, bust
stereotypes, and make our children, whether boys or girls, more gender-friendly. Some
insightful tips on how to gender sensitise children:

1. Fight Gender Stereotypes. Children learn a lot from their immediate surroundings — families,
friends, school, neighbourhood, media and books. Stereotypes based on gender and its
internalisation starts at an early age. Children, who grow up in gender-equitable environments,
tend to believe in gender stereotypes less than their peers, who grow up in a gender-inequitable
environment.

2. Promote Gender Equality At Home. It is important for parents to treat girls and boys equally
(food, sports, education, equal celebration at birth, etc.). Parents are the first role models
children have. So, if they grow up seeing gender inequality being exercised or tolerated in this
relationship, they are more likely to be exposed to negative gender role stereotyping. It is
important for parents to share household chores as well as outside chores, participate equally in
financial matters, exhibit joint decision making and treat each other with respect.

3. Talk About Gender Issues With An Age Appropriate Lens. Often, parents try to shield
children from incidents related to gender-based violence, but children still get to know of these
issues through friends or media exposure. It is important for parents to talk to children about
gender-related issues in an age-appropriate manner so that they grow up to be more gender-
aware, gender-responsive and respectful.

4. Imbibe Gender Equality And Respect As Core Values. Mutual respect for all irrespective of
their sex, caste, socio-economic status, religion, region and educational status. These are core
values which start getting ingrained in young minds from an early age. Hence, it is important to
imbibe mutual and unconditional respect, equality and opportunity amongst all to lay a strong
foundation for a gender-equal society.

5. The Right Gender Messaging — Gender Is Not Synonymous With Women And Girls. Gender
is often misrepresented as pertaining only to women and girls. It is important to create
awareness that society creates gender norms and stereotypes. Gender stereotypes impact all of
us, yet affect women, girls and the ‘third gender’ more.

6. Tap Into Girl And Woman Power. Through knowledge, skills and leadership development of
girls and women, we can build a resilient, empowered, and motivated generation. Such a
generation will have high aspirations for self and a commitment to gender equality and equity.

7. Engage With Men And Boys. We all must share responsibility and commitment towards
gender equality, not only women and girls. It also should not focus only on women and girls.
Engaging with men and boys is equally important and helps in creating an enabling environment
for an equitable society.

8. Gender Sensitise Service Providers. Service providers – whether education, health, financial,
or legal – play a significant role in reinforcing gender stereotypes. If we sensitise this group on
gender, they can promote positive gender roles and norms, leading to a wider impact. They can
 also provider gender-sensitive services such as separate toilets in schools for girls. Further,
specified areas in public places for young mothers to feed their infants would help a lot. Also,
there should be discussions about crèche facilities at workplaces for young mothers who lack
support systems.

9. Celebrate And Promote ‘Positive Deviants’ In Society. Breaking barriers require bold steps by
both women and men, paving way for an enabling environment. Recognising the ‘positive
deviants’ in our society like Mary Kom, the Phogat Sisters and their father is important. We must
promote their stories to motivate others for progressive change.

10. Media As A Game Changer. All forms of media must promote positive gender role models
and equitable gender norms through movies, shows, documentaries, and articles. They can
communicate to the masses and have an impact due to the depth of messaging and the reach.

5. As a future teacher, how can we help the government in each effort and ensure the
fundamental equality before the law of women and men.
 By promoting gender equality through education and to attained trainings, seminar
regarding thus issues.

These 10 Issues Matter to Gender Equality in 2017 (Cathy Russell):

1. Backsliding. It comes as a particular shock to learn that even in countries that hold significant
global power and sway, the rights of women and girls still come under assault. In Russia, for
example, a bill aimed at decriminalizing domestic violence recently passed the first stage of
approval in parliament.
2. Adolescent girls. The world has seen tremendous progress in getting more children into primary
school — but that progress hasn’t translated to secondary education, particularly when it comes
to adolescent girls.
3. Sexual violence in conflict. There’s no doubt that sexual violence in conflict is a horrific,
destructive, criminal act. It’s also a major security issue because it reinforces cycles of violence
and conflict.
4. Afghanistan. Over the last 15 years, Afghan women have shown unmatched resilience in making
strides from Taliban oppression toward gender equality. Millions of girls are now in school,
filling seats that, under the Taliban, no girl could fill. And more women are participating in
politics, business, journalism, and activism. Life expectancy for Afghan women has risen by some
20 years since 2001.
5. GDP. $28 trillion. That’s the amount of annual world GDP we could gain if every country can
close the gender gap in labor markets by 2025.
6. Violent extremism. There are three critical points we must remember when it comes to violent
extremism.
First, at the hands of groups like Boko Haram and Da’esh, women and girls have suffered
unspeakable violence — but we cannot remain silent about these horrors.
Second, women and girls have also been part of the problem, aiding terrorist groups and
sometimes even leading terror attacks around the world. We need a better understanding of
this phenomenon.
Third, women and girls are part of the solution. They are on the front lines of stopping
radicalization before it happens. And research indicates communities with strong gender
equality are safer, more stable, and less vulnerable to the hateful ideology espoused by violent
extremists.
7. Female genital mutilation/cutting. More than 200 million women and girls have suffered the
consequences of FGM/C, a serious human rights violation with no medical purpose. The United
States must do more to prevent it, particularly as millions more are at risk.
8. Saudi Arabia. It might surprise people to know that more than half of college graduates in Saudi
Arabia are women. Yet the workforce is dominated by men, and well-documented challenges
for women remain.
9. Peace processes. Women have played notable roles in peace negotiations recently, from the
ongoing discussion in Yemen to the historic peace accord in Colombia, which recognizes the
disproportionate impact the conflict has had on women and includes has specific provisions for
women.
10. The United States. For nearly four years, I’ve traveled around the world talking about global
women’s issues. Often the most persuasive argument is not to point fingers, but to tell our own
story of how the United States has struggled to address domestic violence, give women and girls
equal educational opportunities, and change attitudes about how women can contribute to our
country.