Are you a teacher leader? Do you aspire to be one?
Join our Online Teacher Leader Institutes
What’s it all about?
Our Teacher Leader Institutes are designed to meet the unique professional learning needs of current and aspiring teacher leaders working in international schools. Whether you are a department head, grade level leader, committee or task force lead, or in some other middle level leadership role, our courses are for you! Our four essential courses are offered virtually, with one synchronous session, during the school year to include job-embedded practices and reflect the best we know about professional learning.
What can I expect?
A research-based curriculum emphasizing practical skills for teacher leaders
Experienced international school practitioners as facilitators to provide feedback and guide discussions
A detailed, interactive, digital Resource Book with tasks for you to complete alone, with your team, and/or with your Principal
An online Learning Platform that is learner-friendly and provides opportunities for collaboration and networking
What does each course look like?
One introductory, two hour synchronous session to give you a course overview, a chance to meet your course colleagues, and your first dive into course content
Four learning modules over eight weeks, approx. 30 hours of learning
Learning that is drip-fed in two week modules to allow you to be self-paced
Job-embedded skills to practice with your team on your own time, with job-embedded reflective practices to support synthesis of your learning and the planning of next steps
Opportunities to collaborate and network with colleagues through digital tools and a regional cohort of course colleagues to connect with virtually during each module
Choose your learning experience
What will I learn in the program?
The Teacher Leader Program is based on three key design principles:
learning the most up-to-date practices alongside international colleagues
having access to current professional resources
including job-embedded practice or application opportunities
Across the four courses you will learn how to:
transform your team meetings into collaborative sessions, focused on student learning
lead your team through the process of developing and revising curriculum and assessments using a learner centered approach with a lens on diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism
lead protocols with your team to look at student work and uncover student thinking
share and model research-based teaching and assessment practices
select the best approach when coaching and supervising team members
use a variety of evidence sources for documenting effective teaching practices and to look for evidence of learning
provide carefully crafted, actionable feedback to improve teaching and to transform student learning
How do I Earn the Certificate of International School Teacher Leadership?
The Principals’ Training Center offers teacher leaders the opportunity to earn a 'Certificate of International School Teacher Leadership'. This certificate is an acknowledgement that the recipient has been trained for a teacher leadership position in an international school. Take all four core courses in five years or less and earn the certificate!
Certificate of Completion
Participants in all courses will receive an email after completion, giving them access to a digital certificate to be printed, added to their LinkedIn profile, and/or included as evidence of professional growth in their TIE resume, one of the components of their free one-year subscription.
Can I Earn Graduate Credit?
Yes! You may earn 3 hours of graduate credit for each course in our teacher leader program. In addition to completing all course tasks there will be a graduate credit assignment that requires up to 10 additional hours of learning time. For more information about graduate credit, click here.
How can I register?
Click the appropriate TLI registration button on the right sidebar (buttons appear only when registration is live). Registration is not complete until a payment option is selected and payment is made online or a check/wire payment has been received by the PTC office.
