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What Part Does Instructional Leadership Play in Making Schools Effective?

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DOI: 10.23977/aetp.2022.061013 | Downloads: 13 | Views: 485

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Yue Qin 1

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1 School of Education, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kningdom

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Yue Qin

ABSTRACT

The paper is aims to analyses how does instructional leadership in Singapore making primary schools effective. The paper uses qualitative analysis to research the influence of instructional leadership on primary schools in Singapore. Number of previous views of instructional leadership are illustrated in this paper and according to these views to compare with the latter condition of leadership model. In a word, the paper finds that instructional leadership is greatly beneficial to student learning to make school effective by various ways, owing to instructional leadership focus teaching and learning and one of the symbols of effective schools is student learning. The research illustrates instructional leadership by different angles, which might provide a guidance to instructional leaders to make more educational achievements in their workplace. 

KEYWORDS

Instructional leadership, Instructional leaders, Effective schools, Singapore

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Yue Qin, What Part Does Instructional Leadership Play in Making Schools Effective?. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2022) Vol. 6: 94-99. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2022.061013.

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