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What is Four in Balance? - PDST

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Leadership focus<strong>in</strong>g on material and human factors% of teachersMaterial factorsHuman factors100807276736055404537200PRIMSECVETFigure 8.5: ICT leadership, accord<strong>in</strong>g to teachers (TNS NIPO, 2010)8.3 The futureIt <strong>is</strong> possible that school managers’ leadership behavior <strong>is</strong> set to change.When asked to name their top priority <strong>in</strong> terms of achiev<strong>in</strong>g their school’sICT goals, school managers say that <strong>in</strong> order to br<strong>in</strong>g about the necessarychanges <strong>in</strong> ICT use, they would like to place more emphas<strong>is</strong> on teachers’professional development and on identify<strong>in</strong>g a pedagogical v<strong>is</strong>ionconcern<strong>in</strong>g the use of ICT (Figure 8.6). In other words, their emphas<strong>is</strong> <strong>is</strong>shift<strong>in</strong>g from material to human factors.Th<strong>is</strong> will require a different type of leadership behavior, one that <strong>is</strong> lessconcerned with mak<strong>in</strong>g facilities available (without oblig<strong>in</strong>g teachersto use them) and more focused on encourag<strong>in</strong>g and guid<strong>in</strong>g teachers asprofessionals.72

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