Educational Leadership: Importance of Shared Learning Philosophy

Running head: EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Educational Leadership
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Educational Leadership is a collaborative process that helps to bring together the
efforts and talents of the teachers, students and their parents to achieve a common objective
of improvement in the educational process. The aim is to improve the quality of the system of
education. An educational leader helps to manage the students, lead the educational system,
provides or helps to access the necessary resources needed for the delivery of education,
manage classrooms, manage teaching strategies and provide feedbacks for the improvement
of the curriculum (Grundy, 2017). Different philosophies are implied in educational
leadership and shared learning is one of the most significant one in my opinion.
I believe that quality educational leadership is one that can maximize the process of
learning and acquiring knowledge. A quality educational leadership provides support to the
teachers to develop their skills and competencies to deliver education supports students to
utilize the education delivery strategies in the best way and learn more effectively and also
provides support to the parents in order to secure better education for their children and
understand their educational needs (Amanchukwu et al., 2015).
I believe that shared learning encourages students as well as teachers to increase
their knowledge and competencies by the sharing of each other’s knowledge and helps to
maintain the standard and quality of the educational system. Apart from the conventional
mode of education delivery (such as classroom lectures and instructions), additional strategies
are vital for effective learning and teaching process. Shared learning allows the teachers to
share their experiences and knowledge to improve their competency, while the students can
use shared learning though engagement in group learning processes and activities to share
their knowledge and understanding of the subject (Payes, 2018). Due to this I strongly believe
that shared learning is an important educational leadership philosophy.

2EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
As an educational leader, the shared learning approach can be used to encourage
students to study in study groups, and participate in group learning activities. I would
design the curriculum to include assignments and projects that would involve a group of
students who would have to share their ideas and knowledge and collaborate their activities to
complete the assignment and project. I would also encourage the teachers to share their
experiences with each other, and help each other to develop their competencies and skills in
different subjects. I would also like to engage the teachers to coordinate with each other in
group discussions and teaching workshops where a teacher can share their experience and
teaching strategies to other teachers. Additionally I would also involve meetings with the
parents and teachers which will allow them to share their opinions, expectations, concerns
and perspectives related to the education delivery and performance of the students. I believe
that such activities can help to develop an environment of shared or collaborative learning for
teachers and students alike (Looijenga et al., 2017).
According to the Australian Council of Educational Leaders, activities such as
workshops, leadership programs, conferences, online resources and in-house
publications can help the development of leadership qualities and help to inspire, recognize,
support and advocate excellence in education. Sharing of knowledge, learning experiences
to achieve a common learning goal through a collaborated effort between teachers, students
and parents can help to develop and maintain quality in education as well as help teachers to
develop their competencies and help student to develop their knowledge. Thus I believe that
shared learning can help to maintain the national policies of Australian Education system to
uphold the values of quality of education and competency of the educators. At an institutional
level, shared learning can help to maintain the standards of knowledge delivery, performance
of the students and the competencies of the teacher (Davis et al., 2015).