Educational Leadership: a Student-Centered Approach

Educational leadership today needs to focus on our teachers and support staff implementing a student-centred pedagogy in their daily classroom instruction. We need to train our educators to adapt their lesson plans to the everyday realities of their students. This is the main building block in securing student success for each academic year. What is a student-centred approach? This is the main focus of the book and the reader will be introduced to a variety of teaching success stories at the elementary, secondary, college and university levels in education.

Building Student Success: Educating your staff on the necessity of building student success is crucial because at different levels of the students academic career we are not aware of all the experiences the student has been through throughout their journey in education. Furthermore, we may need to re-build the students confidence, trust, and find ways to improve the joy of learning that was lost. In this way we are able to sustain and maintain a true spirit of life-long learning and maximize their unlimited potential. This student-centred pedagogy is critical for todays student and diverse methods are examined in detail in this text. The text provides a step by step guide to help administrators, policy makers, and staff implement this pedagogy. This pedagogy can be adapted at all levels of academia.

Within this book there are success stories and strategies that will enhance and empower your staff and will empower the educator. Within its pages your confidence will grow and you will have a positive outlook on the future of education. This text will make you a believer that we can make a sustainable positive impact in the lives of our students.