¶ … learning environment requires a consistent and fair approrach to those learning. However, the exact relationship between learning and classroom leadership has not yet been defined. However, Drs. Brown (university of Saskatchewan) and Posner (Santa Clara University) investigate how the templates of learning and leadership interact and are related. Using a quantitative approach with learning tactics inventory and leadership practices inventory, they note that with a sample of 312 individuals the more active and versailte learners and both engaged in robust leadership behaviors and respond to leadership techniques. When one looks at the changes in contemporary culture (e.g. adult learning, life-long learning, change of career, educational budgets), this becomes even more imporant.
Ironically, in a speech John F. Kennedy was prepared to give on that fatefully Dallas day in 1963, he noted, "leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." As the goals of education are more...
276-7). In addition, within any organization, motiviations are critical for the health of the organization and the ability for those involved to actualize (e.g. students).
For students to be successful, the very focus of their environment must be pro-learning. Teachers cannot "learn" for the student, but as leaders they must provide the Vygotskian (constructivist) approach to a learning environment. We know that management (in this case classroom management) and leadership are not the same. Management is tactical, leadership strategic. A true educational leader looks to the future and adapts the learning goal and target to the need of the student, creating a synronicity that benefits both parties.
Authors of this study use their expertise in education and business to provide a thorough, well-documented study showing the critical interrelationship…
