{"id":10645,"date":"2026-10-20T13:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/varthana.com\/school\/?p=10645"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:32:23","slug":"school-leaders-you-can-impact-your-schools-teaching-practices-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varthana.com\/school\/blog\/school-leaders-you-can-impact-your-schools-teaching-practices-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"How School Leaders Can Improve Teaching Practices: 7 Practical Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"

The goal of any modern school transformation agenda is to enhance teaching and learning. This guide shows how school leaders can improve teaching practices through seven practical steps. But the approaches they take diverge significantly. For instance, some reforms aim to enhance all schools in a district, state, or nation simultaneously. Other initiatives make an effort to change a school’s overall philosophy of teaching and learning, but they do it one school at a time. <\/span><\/p>\n

Effective leadership is essential for school reform, and it is comparable just to classroom instruction in terms of its impact on student accomplishment. Transformation of education can bring about long-lasting change through comprehensive initiatives rather than merely superficial changes or small-scale initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Is School Leadership?<\/h2>\n

A collectively formed and supported change in vision is what leadership is all about. In this sense, transformation cannot happen without leaders, particularly <\/span>school leaders<\/span><\/a><\/span>. The interactions of the school characters result in an effective vision of the desired transformation, which the school leadership encourages and facilitates. <\/span>Research by Kenneth Leithwood and colleagues<\/a> highlights the important role of school leadership in improving student learning.<\/p>\n

Since schooling, extensive homeschooling, or online-only models are neither being used nor considered, education does not take place in a vacuum within an organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

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How School Leadership Shapes Teaching Practices<\/h2>\n

\u00a0Support Teachers\u2019 Social-Emotional Well-Being<\/h3>\n

<\/b>Teaching sometimes becomes a mundane process dealing with different learning age groups. Sometimes it does impact the psychological balance of teachers. As a leader, you can follow up on your teacher’s emotional and mental needs. Talk about the concern that they are facing in the classroom, try to find a solution collaboratively, and talk about it instead of focusing on meeting the academic goals on priority.<\/span><\/p>\n

Equip Classrooms with Technology<\/h3>\n

Having a classroom equipped with technology can enhance teaching-learning outcomes. As a leader, empower your teachers with various teaching-learning resources and training which can help with the effectiveness of delivering the concept to the learner. Equipping classrooms well, displays, devices, learning software and training, is an investment, and many schools plan it in phased steps or fund it through a dedicated technology budget.<\/span><\/p>\n

Involve the Community and Parents in the School Process<\/h3>\n

One of the ways to reduce the burden of the teachers can be to include parents in students’ learning. Schools can provide opportunities where parents volunteer to be a part of the program as per their interests and skills.<\/span><\/p>\n

Encourage Teachers to Solve Problems Creatively<\/h3>\n

While teaching teachers come across a lot of problems that are very new to them. As a school leader, you can motivate and support them to solve the issues with creativity such as peer-to-peer support, learning labs, etc. Setting up learning labs and hands-on spaces has an upfront cost, which some schools fund through a school infrastructure loan<\/a> alongside their regular budget.<\/span><\/p>\n

Use Positive Reinforcement for Teachers<\/h3>\n

\u00a0As a principal you can opt for various ways to motivate the teachers by praising them on their small efforts and by promoting rewarding culture in staff who go beyond the limits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Remove Additional Responsibilities Where You Can<\/h3>\n

<\/b>During the pandemic additional duties of teachers increased significantly and they are still continuing with the added responsibilities. Teachers should be freed from other duties or they should be compensated for the additional work. Introducing outside agencies can reduce the load on the teachers and allow them time to focus on the academic delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ask Teachers for Their Opinions<\/h3>\n

\u00a0Include your teachers in decision making. Any new process which you are planning to implement in the school must go through a collaborative and democratic process where every teacher shares their views before implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n

School administrators may assist teachers by implementing successful <\/span>teaching techniques<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span> In addition to creating inclusive and motivating learning environments for the entire school, they can tap into the abilities and motivations of teachers, students, and parents. They can also offer rigorous, individualized and sustained teacher training. Strong teaching practices often need the right tools, spaces and training behind them, and a clear plan to fund them. The section above outlines how schools can finance these.<\/span><\/p>\n

How Schools Can Fund Better Teaching: Technology, Labs and Training<\/h2>\n

Many of the ways a school leader can improve teaching cost nothing but attention: supporting teachers, involving them in decisions, easing their load. Others, like equipping classrooms with technology, building learning labs or funding regular teacher training, need investment. For affordable private schools, the question is how to pay for them without straining the regular budget.<\/p>\n

What better teaching often needs<\/h3>\n
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  • Classroom technology: displays, devices, software and connectivity<\/li>\n
  • Learning labs and hands-on activity spaces<\/li>\n
  • Teacher training and professional development<\/li>\n
  • Materials and resources for new teaching methods<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    How schools fund these<\/h3>\n

    Schools usually combine an annual budget with phased spending and, where needed, external financing. A school loan can cover the upfront cost of technology, labs or infrastructure, repaid in instalments aligned with the fee cycle, so a school can improve teaching now rather than waiting years to save up.<\/p>\n

    How Varthana helps<\/h3>\n

    Varthana works with affordable private schools across India to fund classroom technology, infrastructure, teacher training and expansion. School leaders can check school loan eligibility and use the school loan calculator to plan how a loan fits their budget before investing.
    \nLeadership comes first, but the right tools and training, funded sensibly, help good teaching reach every classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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