Creating Leaders in the Classroom How Teachers Can Develop a New Generation of Leaders

Creating Leaders in the Classroom: How teachers can develop a new generation of leaders Hilarie Owen Can you teach a child to be a leader? Creating Leaders in the Classroom is an exploration of how teachers can develop leadership in young people, evaluating current techniques and what pupils themselves say about leadership. This important and enlightening new book demonstrates what can be achieved when teachers, parents and governors participate in developing a leadership ethos for everyone in schools. Modern teaching yearns for systems of learning that are not '¬~boxed', prescriptive, continually tested or based on the teacher knowing everything. Such strategies often simply result in compliance and dependency in pupils and stress in the teacher. Incorporating two years of ground-breaking study on developing leadership in schools, this book uncovers the brilliant leadership potential lying untapped in schools and demonstrates its vast potential. The author, a recognised leadership expert, maintains that we have to break out of thinking that leadership is simply about position and role, and the notion that leadership skills are only relevant for senior pupils. The book not only emphasises the need to look beyond the hierarchies in schools and the culture of dependency they create among staff and pupils, it also acts as a guide on how this can be done, demonstrating the break down of barriers, building of bridges and transformation of schools. Any teacher, head teacher, senior school manager or policy maker will find this ground-breaking book a fascinating reading. Hilarie Owen is currently Chief Executive at the Institute of Leadership, where she is also an international consultant and speaker. She is an expert in leadership, teams and organisational transformation, with particularly strong experience in education and learning.Owen, Hilarie is the author of 'Creating Leaders in the Classroom How Teachers Can Develop a New Generation of Leaders', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415399951 and ISBN 0415399955.