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must be committed. The leader’s love for
Being a leader embodies many things. In the school,
work will be contagious that it will affect the
an instructional leader is a good example to the whole whole
community. This person prioritizes the things that are school community positively. Second, a leader
really needed for the betterment of the system. An must be optimistic. In trying times, the school

needs someone who is a problem-solver, not
instructional leader is also committed in every task that
needs to be accomplished. This person must inspire someone who rants and does nothing to resolve
other people to be good instructional leaders as well. issues. Furthermore, an instructional leader must
also be responsible, com-passionate, and open-
There are many ways to improve instructional leader- minded. I want to leave a legacy that people will

ship skills. To me, the most effective strategy to remember me, and that is my dedication in
heighten these is making learning more relevant to the everything that I do. When things are assigned to
that I do. When tasks are given to me, I take them
lives of the learners. Teaching them concepts that they with a smile because these opportunities is for me
could not relate to is like cooking kare-kare without to grow and explore. In the classroom, I want my
peanut butter. It is pointless. However, if we teach
learners to remember how passionate I am in
them things that they see in the environment, and terms of learning. I
those experiences in their life, our learners will be
always tell them not
proactive.
to cease in learning,

It is also a must to extend our support to the faculty. because it is

There must be consistency on the leader’s monitoring something that
and follow-up. Visiting a teacher once in a school year would change their
is not enough. The leader may extend support by lives.
sharing his/her practices when he/she was still in the
teaching field, or by initiating Learning Action Cell (LAC)

sessions. Progress reports must also be submitted by

teachers to check if the afore-mentioned support
affected student learning. Aside from these, an By: Daisy C. Nogot
instructional leader