Weekly Assignment Leadership Learning Material

WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT LEADERSHIP LEARNING MATERIAL READ THE FOLLOWING TEXT!!! You had stayed at the school for a long time, watching what was happening. For those of you, what is called a school is not just a row of buildings filled with children studying who sit in chairs in an orderly manner and wear neat uniforms. However, what is called a school has many intangible aspects, or issues that are invisible and intangible but determine the progress of the school. Call it leadership, teaching and learning processes, curriculum and evaluation. Go deeper into what is called quality learning services. There are no good schools with satisfactory learning quality led by principals whose leadership is poor. Or is there a good school but the style of the principal who leads it is a mess? Instructional Leadership is a mandate that must be fulfilled so that future generations of the nation are free from "Khadal fakru ayyakunna kufron". Free from poverty, poverty, polytheism, apostasy and ignorance which are very dangerous for the future safety of the nation. A concrete example of an untrustworthy leader is a corrupt leader who prioritizes his own interests and/or his group, forgetting about the students he must serve. A trustworthy leader definitely wants to see his students succeed in their studies, achieve. Therefore, teachers receive serious attention because teachers are catalyst for successful student learning. Question: 1. You are asked: a) The reading text above does not have a title. Give it a title, what is the title, and explain why you gave it the title. b) You are also asked to explain all the words/sentences printed italics. Write the italicized sentence first. 2. The concept of learning leadership is very different from the concept of leadership in the military or companies, for example. Of course there are reasons and underlying principles. You are asked to provide arguments about the differences in the underlying principles. To strengthen your argument , you are asked to use adequate references. 3. The word service becomes an essential concept in learning leadership, why and how the main task of learning leadership service is carried out, what must be served. 4. The Principal as a Learning Leader has many tasks, he must carry out Teacher Empowerment, he must also carry out Capacity Building, you are asked to explain these two tasks, why a leader must do them, how to do them and what the differences are.. 5. Whoever you are, you are leaders who will be held accountable for your leadership behavior. Explain how accountability must be carried out when you have to carry out learning leadership at the educational unit level. Answer: 1. Solution to question no. 1: a) The title that I will give to the two paragraph texts above is "How to become a successful learning leader". I gave this title because the main point of the two paragraphs is mostly discussing how to become a good learner, who can successfully lead the school he leads well. I indicated that both paragraphs are expository paragraphs where both paragraphs aim to provide information about something that will increase the reader's knowledge. Another reason why I gave this title is so that readers are interested in reading the narrative paragraph. b) The meaning in the italic sentence: • Many aspects are intangible, in the Big Indonesian Dictionary aspects can be interpreted in 4 (four) meanings, namely as a sign, point of view, emergence or interpretation of an idea or problem, situation and so on, or can also be interpreted as a grammatical category of verbs that indicate the duration and type of an action. While intangible in the translation dictionary is interpreted as something that is intangible. Something can have many meanings, it can be a condition, situation, requirement, or standard that is not always tangible and written. So it can be concluded, the sentence "many intangible aspects" can be understood as an intangible point of view, but must be met as a requirement to advance a school. • Determining school progress, this sentence can be understood as a standard, quality, or quality that is an indicator of the good or bad of a principal in leading his school. • Leadership, teaching and learning process, curriculum, and evaluation. Leadership in this sentence refers more to the leadership of a principal which can be interpreted as an effort a principal as a leader in leading the educational institution he leads in order to achieve the desired goals. Where in his leadership, the principal is required to be able to encourage, guide, and manage the school he leads in order to achieve a good standard of school success. The teaching and learning process is the core or conclusion of a long process of achieving education. The teaching and learning process must involve many students as learners who will be guided. These students or learners in the process will be guided by teachers to be taught a learning that involves the mind, sight, hearing, cognitive and psychomotor abilities and so on. The curriculum in education is usually indicated as a standard subject that will be taught by an educator to his students. Finally, the evaluation itself is the final assessment process that is carried out comprehensively on the entire series of learning. Both assessments in terms of educator performance, and the results that have been achieved within a certain time. The results of this assessment will ultimately be a reference for further leadership in order to be able to correct existing deficiencies, so that an optimal educational goal will be achieved. • Quality learning services, this sentence can be understood as a quality standard for a school or educational institution in providing a learning process to students. This service can be in the form of the performance of the principal and or the learning process that an institution can provide to the students he guides. • There is no good school with satisfactory learning quality led by a principal with poor leadership, this sentence is equivalent to the term or idioms that we often hear such as 'there will be no smoke, if there is no fire'. The sentence above refers more to a cause-effect situation, where good principal leadership will certainly produce a quality school. Likewise, on the other hand, bad principal leadership will certainly have an impact on the quality of the educational institution he is leading. • Khadal fakru ayyakuma kufron, a hadith popularized by al-Ghazaly in al-ihyaa' is identical to its content which talks about poverty, ingratitude, and disbelief. Imam Nawawi and al-Ghazaly said that the "faqir" referred to here refers more to the poor of the heart where someone has been in poverty accompanied by hasad or envy towards someone whose position is above him. Meanwhile, Sufyan ats-Tsauri himself added that the sense of poverty and ingratitude of a human being in this hadith is also marked by the loss of a person's sense of shame to apologize to others. • Free from poverty, poverty, idolatry, apostasy and ignorance which are very dangerous for the safety of the nation's future, this sentence can be interpreted as in achieving the goals and safety of the nation's future, students as the next generation will be the pillars of the successors in continuing educational efforts , must not have the bad qualities listed above. Poverty, poverty, idolatry, apostasy and stupidity are bad traits that must be shunned and avoided by the nation's next generation in order to become complete leaders who can direct this nation towards progress and the nation's ideals as stated in the 1945 Constitution. • Leaders those who are trustworthy definitely want to see their students succeed in their studies, achieve achievements. It is clear in this sentence that a quality leader who is oriented towards the goals and ideals of the organization will try to ensure that the students he leads can experience true education. Where he will be happy if his students graduate in the best place as proof of the optimal leadership results he has worked for. • Therefore, teachers receive serious attention because teachers are catalysts for the success of student learning, of course teachers as student guides have a big role in determining whether or not the desired learning objectives are achieved. However, teacher performance is not always there and continues ignites on its own, but must be awakened. The principal as an institutional leader has the responsibility to evaluate teacher performance, in addition the principal must also be able to create a comfortable and good learning environment and educational organizational culture so that teachers will be more optimal in carrying out their duties. 2. Differences between the concept of learning leadership and the concept of military leadership. a) The concept of learning leadership Learning leadership or instructional leadership can be understood as a way of leadership whose components include curriculum, education, teaching and learning process, assessment of learning outcomes, development of learning outcomes, assessment and development of teacher performance results, and so on related to education. Learning leadership is basically directed at the leadership of a principal as an institutional leader in managing the school he/she manages. This leadership is usually in the form of a principal's skills or expertise in supervising and improving the performance of educators, creating a positive learning environment that supports optimal learning, providing a sense of security and comfort without justification for the skills and abilities of students, providing a positive sense of organizational culture that is all based on the needs and aspects of the quality of educational services. The purpose of this learning leadership itself is to provide maximum and optimal quality of educational services to students. Where the quality of educational services includes the teaching and learning process that improves the skills and abilities of students, both in terms of academics, behavior, manners and talents and interests. b) Military leadership concept The military is usually identical to its 'human-dense' organization, meaning that the military organization or in this case the Indonesian Army is quite dominant in directing human resources so that the indicator of its success is based on the quality of the unit or its human members, not on the equipment or infrastructure owned by the organization. The leadership applied to military leadership is transformational leadership which consists of four characteristic points, namely charismatic leadership or the ideal influence of a leader, motivation that inspires members, intellectual stimulation and individual attention. In the military organization itself, there are several factors that are characteristic or unique to the organization. Some of these characteristics are loyalty or individual loyalty to the unit or group, the existence of a hierarchy of positions or flow and or order of levels of positions in the organization and the span of command. c) Based on the two explanations of the concept between the concept of learning leadership and the military concept, it can be understood that both are two different leadership concepts. Learning leadership focuses more on providing and improving the quality of educational services based on maximum satisfaction from students. 3. The concept of educational services in educational leadership refers to the leadership ability of the principal in managing the institution or organization that he is currently leading and providing quality educational services based on the level of consumer satisfaction which at this stage are students, parents of students, and the community. Sudarmanto stated that leadership is one of the important competencies that greatly determines the performance of members or the success of an organization or institution. Wahjosumidjo also said the same thing, where he stated that as a school leader, the principal is described as someone who is based on high expectations for staff and educators. A principal as an institutional leader must have a vision, mission and learning strategy and educational management that is oriented towards quality education services. As a leader, the principal is an important central point whose good or bad institutions that he leads will be based on the quality of his management as a leader. 4. A principal has many tasks including teacher empowerment and capacity building. • One of the main keys to achieving quality education is achieving the quality of professionalism of teachers or educators. Teachers are the main key who are important figures in channeling knowledge to students. Empowerment itself comes from the English word "empowerment" which is divided into two meanings, one of which means to give ability to (an effort to provide ability). Empowerment is essentially an effort to improve a person's ability (in this case a teacher or educator) through change and development in terms of ability or competence, self- confidence, authority and responsibility. In the world of education, empowerment itself is a practical and productive stage to get the best results from the principal, teachers and employees. In this empowerment, the principal as the leader of the institution certainly does not let go, but plays an important role as a controller or field supervisor to see whether the policy is running as expected or not. In addition to being a supervisor, the principal also plays a role in managing the school of students, teachers, education personnel, facilities, costs and others. • Capacity building or capacity building refers to improving the quality of an educator as a teacher in providing optimal education services to students. • Capacity building includes improving teacher abilities in terms of knowledge or academics, skills, attitudes and behavior of educators. In terms of capacity building, the principal as the leader of the institution acts as a supervisor or supervisor and assessor of the quality of the performance of educators. 5. As has been widely explained, the principal plays an important role in achieving the quality of education in an institution or school. Not only as an executor or implementer, the principal also plays a role as a planner and supervisor who organizes the vision, mission and goals of the school and supervises the performance and implementation of the learning process whether it is in accordance with the goals to be achieved or not.