10 | COSERE UNIT 2: THE ROLE OF THE HEADTEACHER FOR FOSTERING COLLEGIAL SUPPORT 2.1. Role of the school leader • What is transformational leadership? • What is shared leadership? Verbiest (2008) divides these tasks into three groups and thus formulates three basic roles of school heads: • The role of ‘culture developer’ means support for the formation, dissemination, and embedding of shared values, views, and standards in the service of an inclusive professional learning culture. • The role of ‘educator’ means fostering the intensity and quality of the individual and collective learning processes of team members so that profound learning takes place. • The role of ‘architect’ means building structures, processes and systems in schools and amongst schools that enhance personal and interpersonal learning capacity development. Instruction Identify your role in supporting collegiality and networking in school by completing the following questionnaire. (Follow the Result table at the end of the questionnaire.) Agree with the statement on the scale I don’t agree at all 1 2 3 4 5 6 Totally agree
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