The Practice of 'Middle Leading' in Mathematics Education

View/ Open
File version
Version of Record (VoR)
Author(s)
Grootenboer, Peter
Edwards-Groves, Christine
Rönnerman, Karin
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2015
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
While principals and systemic leaders have a significant role to play in leading, supporting and structuring mathematics education, their influence tends to be indirect and general. However, middle leaders such as curriculum leaders, senior teachers, and faculty heads, exercise their leadership much closer to the classroom, and as such they can have a more direct influence on the quality of teaching and learning in schools. To improve mathematics learning outcomes of student, it is crucial that educational leading is practiced by those with the greatest capacity to bring about positive practical and sustainable change- middle ...
View more >While principals and systemic leaders have a significant role to play in leading, supporting and structuring mathematics education, their influence tends to be indirect and general. However, middle leaders such as curriculum leaders, senior teachers, and faculty heads, exercise their leadership much closer to the classroom, and as such they can have a more direct influence on the quality of teaching and learning in schools. To improve mathematics learning outcomes of student, it is crucial that educational leading is practiced by those with the greatest capacity to bring about positive practical and sustainable change- middle leaders. These school-based curriculum leaders can promote this development by engaging in forms of Critical Participatory Action Research that allows them to improve the quality of teaching and learning through an evidence-driven, site-based, collaborative approach.
View less >
View more >While principals and systemic leaders have a significant role to play in leading, supporting and structuring mathematics education, their influence tends to be indirect and general. However, middle leaders such as curriculum leaders, senior teachers, and faculty heads, exercise their leadership much closer to the classroom, and as such they can have a more direct influence on the quality of teaching and learning in schools. To improve mathematics learning outcomes of student, it is crucial that educational leading is practiced by those with the greatest capacity to bring about positive practical and sustainable change- middle leaders. These school-based curriculum leaders can promote this development by engaging in forms of Critical Participatory Action Research that allows them to improve the quality of teaching and learning through an evidence-driven, site-based, collaborative approach.
View less >
Conference Title
Mathematics Education in the Margins: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Publisher URI
Copyright Statement
Copyright 2015 MERGA. The attached file is posted here with permission of the copyright owner for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this conference please refer to the publisher’s website or contact the authors.
Subject
Educational Administration, Management and Leadership