Principals' Instructional Leadership:Connotation,Features and Cultivating Strategies

With the advancement of educational reforms and highlight of teaching professionalism,principals can not just play an administrative role,they should become an active instructional leader.Instructional leadership is the core and key for principals' leadership,it is in essence a professional leadership.This professional leadership is based on professional authority and moral authority,acted on the premise of respecting teachers' professional autonomy and performed by a variety of roles.Principals' instructional leadership is exercised mainly through the creation of a common vision,attention to the classroom,and teachers' professional development and building middle-level leadership teams.The access and promotion of principals' instructional leadership is not only through relevant training activities to improve principals' instructional leadership capacities,but also need to reduce the administrative burden associated with principals,the most important thing is principals' own practice and improvement.