Second Week's Reflections

I missed the second week course because I was away from Christchurch. I am catching up by going over the Moodle content.
I have now got my head around the difference between the personal Unitec login, the Student Portal and the Moodle site.
I am viewing the KCs in Leadership and note that we, as teachers, need to display the KCs in our work with our colleagues just as much as expecting the students to display the same when they are working with each other.

The reading about "The Affordances of Blogging As a Practice" has a very interesting passage:

Historically, the main pathway for teachers to become leaders has been entering school administration, which involves a significant shift in their professional roles and responsibilities (Task Force on Teacher Leadership, 2001). In contrast, the notion of teacher leadershipencompasses teachers remaining in their classroom positions, while serving as advocates, innovators, and stewards of their profession (Lieberman & Miller, 2004). Yet, the pathways through which teachers may become leaders are not clearly defined:

It has often struck me that good classroom teachers if they wish to become leaders need to go down the school administration path and as a result find themselves outside the classroom. The above passage is a rethink of this position and a another aspect of what exactly is teacher leadership.