Pedagogical Leadership, Challenges, and Approaches

Running head: PEDAGOGICAL LEADERSHIP, CHALLENGES, AND APPROACHES 1
Pedagogical Leadership, Challenges, and Approaches
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.....................................................................................................................................2
Pedagogical Leadership, Challenges, and Approaches................................................................................2
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
Pedagogical challenges................................................................................................................................3
Addressing the challenge.............................................................................................................................6
Current political policy and agenda.............................................................................................................9
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................10
References.................................................................................................................................................12

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Executive Summary
Effective pedagogical leadership skills are important to ensure effective learning of
students in schools. However, the pedagogical leadership may be infective as a result of some
factors in schools which need to be addressed. Effective pedagogical leadership skills ensures
that the teachers get to understand the different needs of the learners, make them adapt to the
conditions of the classroom and ensure that learning is done in a proper way (Danielewicz,
2014). Best teachers always use pedagogical leadership skills to ensure their students gets the
best out of what they are being taught. This paper addresses the pedagogical leadership
challenges in the schools and the recommendations made to ensure the challenges are addressed.
The paper will also look into the current policy and agenda in the handling of the pedagogical
challenge in the current society.
Pedagogical Leadership, Challenges, and Approaches
Introduction
Pedagogy involves understanding how the philosophy of learning takes place in a
learning institution and the practices that support it. Pedagogical leadership on the other hand
encompasses the guidance or leading study of the teaching and the process of learning in the
educational institutions (Harris, 2003). The pedagogical leadership often requires the readiness
and ability which is based on the attitudes of a leader. Pedagogical thus brings the leadership role
close to the interaction of people as opposed to the hierarchical style of leadership. Pedagogical
leadership also involves the management of personal learning and its implementation which is
defined by every learning concept of a leader (Shor, 2012).This paper will discuss the

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pedagogical leadership challenges which I encountered in my professional work and the different
approaches which are necessary to overcome the challenges. The pedagogical challenges will
come from the findings from my present learning institution.
From the past, research has shown that teachers barely came up with the child-centered
approaches in the teaching and learning institutions due to lack of adequate knowledge on the
new approaches to successful leadership in classrooms. There have been large classes which hold
a lot of untrained teachers having insufficient materials for use in learning and teaching
purposes. This calls for the provision of teachers with enough educational enlightenment, be
adequately resourced, and developed professionally in their particular areas so that they can
transmit their philosophy and promote meaningful development learning to their children
(Ainscow & Sandill, 2010).
Pedagogical challenges
From my experience in my learning institution, the current pedagogical leadership
practices I encountered in were inappropriate. The primary issue which I saw as a challenge to
most of the teachers was overpopulation of students in the classes. This made it hard for the
teachers and students to have a good learning environment. The lack of enough facilities and
resources and children observed to be sharing a single room due to the lack of enough
classrooms and the insufficiently qualified teachers have been a big problem. The teachers also
have revealed that they were not specialized in teaching particular subjects but remain to teach
other subjects. They have claimed to be aware of the learner-centered pedagogies, and they have
never attended any professional development training or orientation to learn about the new