Table R3.1 Learning outcomes of the TESS-India School Leadership OERs.| NCSL key area | OER title | Learning outcomes |
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| Orientation | The elementary school leader as enabler | - To review your school leadership skills and identify areas for improvement.
- To use the TESS-India School Leadership OERs to design your learning pathway that enhances your school leadership skills.
- What it means to be an enabler of learning in your school.
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| The secondary school leader as enabler | - To review your school leadership skills and identify areas for improvement.
- To use the TESS-India School Leadership OERs to design your learning pathway that enhances your school leadership skills.
- What it means to be an enabler of learning in your school.
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| Perspective on leadership | Building shared vision for your school | - How a school vision informs everyday actions to improve a school.
- How to formulate your own school vision.
- How to involve others in developing and implementing a vision that makes a difference to students
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| Leading the school's self-review | - The advantages and challenges of school self-review.
- The nature of school self-review and the self-review cycle.
- How to gather and use qualitative and quantitative data.
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| Leading the school development plan | - The main features of an effective school planning process.
- To plan for school-wide improvements in student learning.
- To engage stakeholders and especially the SMC in school development planning.
- To write an effective school development plan that makes a difference to outcomes for students.
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| Perspective on leadership | Using data on diversity to improve your school | - The importance of diversity in order to ensure that all students achieve maximum learning gains each year.
- Types of data and nature of data collection that will be useful to you in understanding and dealing with diversity issues in your school.
- To use the collected data to improve learning outcomes for all students and develop an action plan.
- To lead teachers and the local community to gather, analyse and use data on diversity to ensure better outcomes for all students.
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| Planning and leading change in your school | - To identify external and internal drivers for change within schools.
- To identify challenges to implementing change.
- To take necessary steps in planning and leading change in your school.
- To identify educational leadership approaches and relate these to your approach.
- To lead by example, inspiring and motivating others through a change project.
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| Implementing change in your school | - The nature of the change process and how people respond to change.
- Some key theories of change and their relevance to schools.
- How to work with and through others to implement change.
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| Managing and developing yourself | Managing and developing yourself | - To prioritise your work, delegate to others and make effective use of your time.
- To plan for your personal and professional development.
- To set yourself SMART objectives.
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| Transforming teaching-learning process | Leading improvements in teaching and learning in the elementary school | - Be familiar with the pedagogy and structure of the TESS-India OERs.
- Appreciate the potential for adapting and using OERs in your school.
- Identify a focus to increase student participation in learning in your school.
- Ideas on how to sustain improvements in teaching and learning.
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| Transforming teaching-learning process | Leading improvements in teaching and learning in the secondary school | - Be familiar with the pedagogy and structure of the TESS-India OERs.
- Appreciate the potential for adapting and using OERs in your school.
- Identify a focus to increase student participation in learning in your school.
- Ideas on how to sustain improvements in teaching and learning.
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| Leading assessment in your school | - To distinguish between assessment for learning and learning for assessment.
- To lead a strategy for developing formative assessment with teachers in your school.
- To help teachers use evidence and data collected during formative assessment to give feedback that helps students to improve their learning.
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| Supporting teachers to raise performance | - To assess teacher performance.
- To plan to improve the performance of individual teachers.
- Some ideas on how to conduct constructive meetings with teachers about performance.
- Some ideas to use to maintain the performance of teachers.
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| Leading teachers’ professional development | - How teachers’ professional development can impact on school improvement and student learning outcomes.
- Some ideas to help your teachers assess their professional development needs.
- Plan, monitor and enable professional development of all teachers.
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| Mentoring and coaching | - To distinguish between mentoring and coaching, and how both can be used to support staff learning.
- To have conversations with members of staff that improve teaching and learning in your school.
- To plan and deliver coaching and mentoring sessions with agreed outcomes.
- To consider the benefits of a coaching culture in your school.
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| Transforming teaching-learning process | Developing an effective learning culture in your school | - What school culture is and how it impacts on learning.
- To begin to identify the culture in your school.
- Some strategies for developing a positive shared culture for learning in your school.
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| Promoting inclusion in your school | - To develop a shared understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion with your staff.
- To prioritise actions to improve learning outcomes for all your students.
- To collaborate with others to plan and execute actions that address disadvantage or exclusion in your school.
- The importance of evaluating the impact of your interventions.
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| Managing resources for effective student learning | - To understand the broad range of resources available both within and outside the school.
- To identify different resources within your school with a focus on those that are underutilised.
- To engage staff in ensuring resources are utilised appropriately and effectively for learning.
- To draw up a plan for the effective use of resources in your school.
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| Leading the use of technology in your school | - To acquire insights about the range of technology which might be used in your school.
- To consider the creative use of ICT tools and devices in school.
- Ways to use the internet to support your own learning.
- To support your teachers in using the internet for their own learning and in their classrooms.
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| Leading partnerships | Engaging with parents and the wider school community | - Building effective relationships with key institutions in your state.
- Building collaborative partnerships with other schools and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
- Engaging with community organisations, especially the SMC.
- Engaging and collaborating with parents to improve students’ learning.
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