Educational Leadership: A Student-Centered Approach

About the Book

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 student’s 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 student’s 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.

About the Author

Professor Karma Chukdong has worked and lived on remote fly-in indigenous communities for two years, successfully implementing this student-centered approach. Since then he has acquired a second master’s degree from the University of Toronto. This master of education degree focused on curriculum, policy, teaching, leadership, and education management. Professor Karma Chukdong prepared these practical solutions found in this book. These are the most immediate concerns that can be implemented by any educator who holds compassionate leadership as her or his philosophical pedagogy. Presently, Professor Chukdong teaches at Loyalist College and First Nations Technical Institute, where he mentors and creates curriculum documents, course descriptions, and lesson plans for both colleges. Other title by this author: The Human Family