Benefits

The authors have identified many benefits that teachers, students and the school can expect to realize as teachers improve their leadership skills. In addition, there are many benefits the community can expect, and the organizations that serve teachers as their representatives. As teachers become better leaders, the authors show why principals can be expected to improve their leadership skills as well.

Click on the pages below to learn more about what we can expect and look forward in our schools as teachers become better leaders:

Benefits To Teachers

Leadership training can provide significant benefits to teachers. With leadership training teachers can:

  • Be more effective in dealing with all types of students
  • Create stronger, more productive relationships with parents
  • Become better negotiators, and persons who are able to take a stand
  • Set higher goals and find the means to reach these goals
  • Experience greater satisfaction
  • Be better able to learn about and deploy technology in the classroom
  • Improve their time management skills
  • Improve their communication skills
  • Be a mentor to other teachers
  • Be better able to welcome training from other teachers who are mentors
  • Build and maintain better discipline in their classrooms

Benefits To Librarians

Leadership training can provide significant benefits to librarians. Librarians already receive leadership training

In order to become librarians and for continuing professional education. We applaud this.

With leadership training librarians can:

  • Improve their stature and relationships with teachers
  • Help students become more acquisitive and better at research
  • Help be a stronger voice for improving our schools
  • Forge better partnerships with teachers and parents
  • Be more willing and able to speak at community forums on behalf of their schools

Benefits To Special Education Teachers

Leadership training can provide significant benefits to special education teachers.
With leadership training special education teachers can:

  • Reduce stress and better avoid burnout
  • Be able to listen even better to their students as they try to communicate
  • Help the students and their families set excellent goals
  • Create even better IEP’s (Individual Education Plans)
  • Identify early warning signs from students even quicker
  • Establish better rapport with their students and their parents
  • Communicate more effectively to the general community the important work they do

Benefits To Coaches

Leadership training can provide significant benefits to coaches.
With leadership training coaches can:

  • Train their athletes to set even higher standards for conduct and athletic performance
  • Reduce discipline problems
  • Help their athletes be an example to other students in the school
  • Improve their athletes’ desire to excel in academic areas
  • Secure greater respect from their athletes
  • Rely less on fear and sanctions/punishments to secure cooperation and excellence
  • Be an even better role model for their athletes and all students

Benefits To Principals and School Administrators

Leadership training for teachers can provide significant benefits to principals and school administrators.
With leadership training for teachers, principals and school administrators will:

  • Be able to forge better partnerships with teachers
  • Reduce conflict between teachers, principals and school administrators
  • Improve student achievement
  • Increase pride in their schools from students, parents, and teachers
  • Be viewed as being more open and fair by teachers
  • Have better communication with teachers and students
  • Be able to introduce new ideas and approaches in their school with greater receptivity

Benefits To Extracurricular Activities Supervisors

Leadership training can provide significant benefits to extracurricular activities supervisors.
With leadership training extracurricular activities supervisors can:

  • Improve their planning for these activities
  • Become better at delegating to students activities and responsibilities
  • Create a better experience for students
  • Secure more resources, especially from the community, for these activities
  • Be better able to create additional value for the students in these activities
  • Improve the popularity of these activities among students and parents
  • Manage these activities with less stress and less effort
  • Build teams more effectively in these activities
  • Create more memorable experiences for the students in these activities

Benefits To Students

Leadership training for teachers can provide significant benefits to students.
With leadership training for teachers, students will:

  • Become more engaged in the learning process
  • Be better able to assist teachers create a community in the classroom
  • Be more willing to mentor their fellow students
  • Be better disciplined
  • Achieve higher academic achievement
  • Improve their own leadership skills
  • Have better relations with teachers and the administration of the school
  • Learn leadership by example from their teachers

Benefits To Parents

Leadership training for teachers can provide significant benefits to parents.
With leadership training for teachers, parents will:

  • Be more willing to volunteer and to encourage other parents to volunteer
  • Will have better relationships and less conflict with teachers
  • Have a better chance of positively impacting their children’s study habits
  • Potentially, help raise more funds for the school
  • Help promote the school in the eyes of the community
  • Have a more positive attitude toward the school

Benefits To The Community

Leadership training for teachers can provide significant benefits to the community.
With leadership training for teachers, the community will:

  • Gain the benefit of teachers who are more willing to speak to community groups
  • Have better partnerships with schools
  • Have the benefit of contributing more to schools and seeing the benefits of their contributions
  • Be more interested in helping schools
  • See the reputation of the community improve
  • Take greater pride in their community school

Benefits To The School

Leadership training for teachers can provide significant benefits to the school.
With leadership training for teachers, the school will:

  • See discipline and academic achievement of students increase
  • See teacher satisfaction and quality increase
  • Experience lower teacher and student absenteeism
  • Experience reduced conflict and tension
  • Experience greater trust among all participants in school
  • Have more volunteers, community provided resources and improved standing in the community

Benefits to the School District

Leadership training for teachers can provide significant benefits to the school district.
With leadership training for teachers, the school district will:

  • Reduce costs caused by teachers quitting and absenteeism
  • Develop closer relationships among schools and as a district as a whole
  • Reduce conflict
  • Experience increased trust
  • Gain recognition for improvements in student achievement
  • Fare better on future bond issues due to increased community outreach by teachers
  • Achieve better integration with the communities where the school district serves

Benefits to Those Serving Teachers

Leadership training for teachers can provide significant benefits to associations serving teachers.
With leadership Training for teachers the associations serving teachers will:

  • Be better able to resolve and ward off labor relations problems
  • Improve the reputation and standing of teachers in the community
  • Reduce teacher turnover
  • Be more effective in helping increase teacher acceptance of innovation
  • Be better able to help improve overall teacher quality
  • Be able to help form communities of leadership practice among teachers
  • Create their own leadership training programs to help teachers become better leaders
  • Improve their reputation in the eyes of the public
  • Be a key part of this transformation in teacher preparation and training in leadership development