This document discusses how teachers can develop leadership skills. It provides tips for teachers to be good listeners, empathetic, healers, self-aware, persuasive, inspirational, foresighted, stewards of growth and community, and overall leaders. The document is part of a series on developing leadership capabilities and focuses on how teaching requires leadership abilities such as listening, understanding students, inspiring learning, and facilitating growth.

1. Leader are Teachers!
Part of the Leader of the Future Model
IS Capabilities Team, 10/29/08

2. To Teach is to Learn Twice

3. Teacher of the Future: Agenda
Secondary
Purpose:
Illustrate
SmartArt
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4. How Can a Teacher be a Good Listener?
Restate
Let students Let them
questions
learn on share their
before
their own knowledge
answerng

5. How Can a Teacher be Empathetic?
Remember that
change can be hard
Go slow up
the learning curve
Respect students’
comfort zones

6. How Can a Teacher be a Healer?

7. How Can a Teacher be Self-Aware?
• Remember the goal is
1 learning not teaching
• Challenge students to
2 “stretch”
• Recognize your limits
3

8. How Can a Teacher be Persuasive?
Understand
obstacles &
emotions
Give
involved
students
time to
change
Remember their
actions thinking
follow
beliefs

9. How Can a Teacher Inspire a Dream?
Dream Destiny
• What gives • What should
life? • What might be? • Learn,
• Appreciating be? • Co- actuallize,
• Envisioning Constructing improvise
Results • Sustaining
Discovery Design

10. How Can a Teacher show Foresight?

11. How Can a Teacher be a Good Steward?
Answer the So What question
Be prepared
Start on time
Manage the clock

12. How Can a Teacher be Committed to Growth?

13. How Can a Teacher build Community?
Intro-
ductions
Com-
munity
Shared Team
Stories Exercises

14. How Can a Teacher be a Leader?

16. See the whole “Leader of the Future” series
Next: “Servant Leadership”