School Leadership 2.0

Not always. Many other factors are involved.

Students who are bright and self-disciplined can have difficulty empathizing with students who struggle. Administration is a different skill set from teaching. If a teacher is an adaptable person, they can leverage the things they learned in their class.

I was not the best student. That is why I became an educator. I wanted my students to have a better educational experience than I did. Teachers who become administrators are better administrators if they have spent quality time in the classroom beforehand.

This is finally a good survey question. The plain fact is, everything falls on the shoulders of the teachers. An average student can eventually turn into a very good teacher. It's all about your personal skills, rather than your content knowledge.

Often, great students have difficulties knowing how to connect with or teach students who struggle. Great teachers may not have the skills to deal with the challenges that administrators need to work with adults, managing difficult parents and teachers.

Sometimes, the people who have to work hard to succeed in school or who struggled academically or behaviorally have a different drive to meet the needs of diverse learners.

These statements are extreme and unreal. Teachers and administrators are considered to have certain professional and human behaviors: 1. bring out the best in others, 2. are possibility thinkers and creative problem solvers, 3. care deeply - do the work