Leadership Qualities: Reflection on Leadership as a Teacher

This report provides a reflective analysis of leadership qualities from a teacher's perspective. The author emphasizes the importance of vision, motivation, and communication skills in effective leadership. The reflection highlights the significance of collaboration, shared values, and trust among colleagues to enhance the teaching process. The author discusses their commitment to professional development through interactions with other schools and participation in a mentor group. The report also underscores the importance of providing equal opportunities for leadership, fostering creativity, and learning from mistakes. Furthermore, the author stresses the significance of honesty, delegation, risk-taking, and responding to feedback to ensure effective leadership. The author concludes by expressing admiration for their role models and the importance of learning from everyone around them.

Leadership qualities
• A leader needs to have a good vision and be able to motivate others.
• A leader is termed as the one who is knowledgeable about his/her
path and guides others in that way.
• For becoming a good leader a person needs to have the following
qualities (Black, 2015):
• Confidence
• Communication skills

Leadership qualities
• Decision making abilities
• Integrity and honesty
• Passion and commitment to work
• Ability to motivate and inspire others
• Accountability and responsibility.

Reflection on leadership
qualities as teacher
• In order to bring an effective change I believe that the focus of the
leader should be based on collaboration and collectivity (Krasnoff,
2015).
• The leadership practices on shared beliefs and values should be de-
privatised.
• As a teacher I feel deep trust and bonding should be present within
the colleagues for enhancing the teaching process.

Reflection on leadership
qualities as teacher
• Communication and close interaction with my colleagues from other
schools helps in exchange of professional ideas (Snoek, 2014). I
believe that doing things together will help in giving value to other
people and make others feel empowered, self-motivated and find the
purpose for their belonging.
• I have an immense passion for my job which helps me to handle the
teaching and learning process effectively.

Reflection on leadership
qualities as teacher
• I am also a part of a mentor group and we meet regularly for
discussing on school leadership and the day to day events or
frustrations of our lives.
• I believe that it is essential in identifying the essentials of the journey
instead of focusing on the destination. It should be noted that this
journey of learning is a process for evolution rather than revolution.

Reflection on leadership
qualities as teacher
• I give priority to reading, interacting with other staff, researching and
conducting meetings with my colleagues for any matter related to the
school project. I perform this task before performing any other
administrative task.
• I have a strong believe that leaders should give opportunities to
others as well for becoming leaders (Sinha & Hanuscin, 2017). My
style of leadership is to provide everyone with equal opportunity of
becoming leader.

Reflection on leadership
qualities as teacher
• I believe that an individual with leadership potential will be creative,
responsible and innovative about their task.
• In my opinion everyone makes mistakes as mistakes are a part of life.
Mistakes not only means failure it helps us to learn from what we
have done wrong and I believe that every member of my team have
that ability of learning from their mistake.

Reflection on leadership
qualities as teacher
• Being passionate about my job in education has enabled me to
remain honest and be practical when I am approaching any people.
• I believe that the most important quality in leadership is that one
cannot teach unless he/ she does that task himself/herself. This
quality will help in sustaining a good leadership. The teachers and the
principal of my school follow this principle otherwise everyone will
perform task as they please.

Reflection on leadership
qualities as teacher
• I view leadership consist of different people from different places. It is a
process of learning and sharing knowledge with others. Sharing
knowledge with others will help others in taking up challenges. In other
words sharing knowledge will enable others to lead as well.
• I also believe in delegation as one single person cannot control all of
the task alone. It is my strengths that I can identify people who possess
these leadership qualities and has a passion for teaching in schools
rather than taking it as a monotonous job. I try to maintain a balance of
people based on their age, experience, cooperation, gender and
supportive environment. All the teachers needs to have the mindset of
listening to everyone’s ideas and valuing them.

Reflection on leadership
qualities as teacher
• Taking risk is another important quality of a leader. I believe that everyone should evaluate
their capabilities and make a recovery plan in case something goes wrong.
• As a leader one needs to be able to relate to other staff and understanding their stages in the
journey of learning.
• A leader needs to be inquisitive and be aware of the situations occurring in the school.
• I think the leader should be able to influence others in order to achieve the established goals.
• Lastly a leader should respond to the feedbacks obtained from others for ensuring an effective
leadership.
• Like others I also wish to become like my heroes who are the idols of believing in and
performing good practice. My heroes are the old people. These people can be in any profession
or business such as a teacher or lawyer. Apart from the professional theories and practices of
these old models my ideas on leadership is also developed from everyone present around us
including the children as well.

References
• Black, S. A. (2015). Qualities of effective leadership in higher
education. Open Journal of Leadership, 4(02), 54.
• Krasnoff, B. (2015). Leadership qualities of effective principals.
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• Snoek, M. (2014). Developing teacher leadership and its impact in
schools. Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host].
• Sinha, S., & Hanuscin, D. L. (2017). Development of teacher leadership
identity: A multiple case study. Teaching and Teacher Education, 63,
356-371.