The Research On The Construction And Implement Of Learning Leadership Model

The core work of the school leader is closely linked by teachers’ teaching, students’ learning, and the relationship of the learning and leadership. To learn how to lead learning is an important, brand new, and interdisciplinary field of research. It has become most concern topic and the direction of reform of the school leaders since our country comprehensively promoted the new elementary educational curriculum reform in2002. The current school administration is facing the important issue on how to meet the demand of the new era, to build the learning leadership model in the new curriculum background, and to explore a new model of leaning leadership with the Chinese characteristics.The dissertation firstly theoretically elaborates the necessity of implementing learning leadership, explains the meaning and characteristics, and analyzes the positive significance of learning leadership. This dissertation argues that the learning leadership is part of the educational leadership, which become a new paradigm of leadership, and leadership form following the curriculum leadership, and instructional leadership. Learning leadership directly serves learners and enhances the quality of learning for the learners. The first prerequisite is following closely and serving the best quality and effectiveness for them, with the first prerequisite of concerning and serving the best quality and effectiveness for learners. The efficiency of the leadership will extend to the teachers, students, as well as the related school personnel. The behavior of these members directly affect student learning activities, and indirectly affect and provide a variety of resources for the school culture development, the shape of common vision, teaching and learning, and other activities. It will become a reciprocal, structural relationship between learning and leading, which will produce sustainable results by constructing a new significance of school leader from learning oriented leadership culture. The learning leadership has significance on changing the relationship between the school leader’s role and position, the leader and staff, members of the school leadership role in learning and improves the quality of education and school organizational efficiency, and promote the development of theory and other school leaders.The dissertation attempts to construct an action research to build a learning leadership model. First, it demonstrates the necessity from both theoretical and practical aspects demand for the learning leadership model. Theoretically, every member in school shall determine the identity of the learner’s active learning objectives and sharing organizational knowledge. The principals and teachers play the role of a facilitator rather than the source of knowledge. The learner’s learning process is interacting with the learning content and leading ability. The purpose of school leader is to encourage and impact the learners’ self-leadership. In the practical demands and the social background of learning, technology and globalization, the existing school leadership is not conducive to carry out the new curriculum reform and disadvantage for the rapid increase in students’achievement. Therefore, each member of school needs to learn more, to get the correct leadership from others, and to be able to implement the specific learning content on the new leadership model.Second, it constructed a learning leadership model in terms of the leadership values, the organizational models, action, operation, the content of learning leadership, evaluation system, and the protection process. The purpose of the model is to learn the value orientation of the school leadership. It realizes the purpose of cooperative learning and sharing leadership by building learning communities, broadening the sources of leadership, implementing diverse leadership, strengthening leadership density and so on. In the practice of learning leadership, principals’ self-learning will demonstrate and incentive with important significance on the individual and organizational learning leadership activities, as well as the learning leadership training. Necessary evaluation and safeguards ensure the development of a common vision for school leadership actions towards the learning leadership. On the one hand, to successfully operate the performance of this model will enhance the principals’ leadership wisdom, and the conscious effort in the direction of the famous principal. On the other hand, it will promote professional development of teachers, and make good learner get into the famous teachers. What’s more, this model will enhance students’achievement as well. Students will learn how to learn and self-study to get into the road of lifelong learning. With all advantages above, school will be able to continue to improve and change to make it better.Based on the above construction of the model, the researcher himself tries out in school practice. In the first practice, according to the problems of the primary school W’s development, the researcher seizes the school change and sustainable development of the fundamental——learning, he establishes the coalition of institution and school, integrated learning project for the organizational learning in school leadership; he leads teachers and students to learn through building the efficient classes, carrying out research, encouraging teachers’ training, establishing community learning, effective teaching and other activities. He specifically exemplifies the academic knowledge, methods, values and overall mastery learning as the specific direction of learning leadership.From the results of the first round, it has initially changed the circumstances happened in the phase of starting school such as blindness, panic, mess, and inefficiency. They include:(1) the principal tries to use "Five Values" methodology to deal with the duty of the " Learning-Leadership."(2) Organizational learning inspires the interest of the teachers’ and students’ actively and independently learning.(3) The teachers’awareness of the "Learning-Leadership" has been aroused, meanwhile the responsibility of the "Learning-Leadership" has been distributed.(4) It enhanced the teachers’learning skills simultaneously. However, the drawbacks come along with:(1) the self-improvement of the principals didn’t bring significant positive influences to the teachers and the students.(2) the Learning-Leadership model is required to consider the organizational structure, which blocks the learners’ improvement of relationship and disadvantages to foster great learning leaders.(3) Even the model gets all the perspectives of the "Learning-Leadership" involved, the environment of the learning-leadership was not improved. For the problems in the first round of practice, it highlights the dominance of the principal leaders of the learning leadership in the second round. The self-leadership of learning has been strengthened while the value of learning and the cultivation of the learning leaders have been focused. To take care of the teachers and students, the main part of the school, and to inspire teachers’ and students’ potential of learning leadership, the principle adjusts the original hierarchical organization structure, and establishes a flat leadership structure. Through the example of the principal’s self-study, positive impact, it encourages teachers and students to participate in the work of the learning leadership. It has improved the learning leadership environment by using priority appraisement for good learners, only rewarding exciting mode, and by guiding teachers and students to self-leadership and other measures.In the study,48school teachers were interviewed and proved that the model of learning leadership is able to change school learning environment and the existing situation. The effect was reflected on the bellowing:(1) the current situation of the school leader has changed. Based on the teachers’ professional development as the breakthrough, school focused on improving the teachers’ overall quality and the knowledge structure, which formed a common vision for the school development. Collaborative activities, cultural institutions and the value of education programs are also leading the teachers and students to work and learn, and improving their quality of life in the conscious way.(2) Learning leadership improves the learning environment. In aid of H University, the school made a detailed comprehensive project planning and deployment of cadres, teachers can put leadership principal’s intentions into concrete work, which bolds leadership role in their own learning, and enhances learning autonomy and initiative to improve the relationships between the members of the school.(3) The channels of learning becomes more spacious. In the assistance and guidance from the university professors and graduate students, it become more smooth on the dissemination of knowledge by opening up integrated projects, efficient classroom projects, research, educational training, network training, seminars and other aspects of school alliances.(4) It improves the ability of learn leadership. The principal dispersed the leadership responsibilities and rights to the excellent teachers, students and parents. The teachers realized how to "lead", how to "guide", and how to "learn", which maintained the most effective state between teaching and learning.(5) The learning leadership has more widespread sources. Through experiential learning leadership, all the teachers understand the learning outcomes, which reflects on daring to test out by leading others to learn and practice. Therefore, to active participation of school leadership, to assume leadership responsibility, to play to their strengths, to work together, enhances student-achievement’s leadership.(6) The school’s reputation has significantly increased. The successful operation of leadership model promotes the overall development of the school, which showed the new atmosphere of the school and won praise from all other area. After two rounds of practice, it proved that this design for the learning leadership model is viable, active and effective.In this dissertation, as a new model of leadership facilitator, the author realized that the "Learning-leadership" model could be a better and more effective solution for the school leaders. The beauty of the model includes to improve the learning efficiency, to change the leadership patterns and the leadership concept of the current principals, and to foster more learning leaders. It is expected building the new academic culture of "cooperative learning and sharing leadership" can improve the academic organizational functions. Furthermore, it would also assist to provide ideal environment of leadership and decision-making for the long-term development of academic organizational structure.