Structure of benchmarks

Domain ONE: ENGAGE

SCOPE: Distributed leadership for learning and teaching engages a broad range of participants from all relevant functions, disciplines, groups and levels. This includes formal leaders, informal leaders and experts.  

ELEMENTS

  • Formal leaders (academic and professional)
  • Informal leaders 
  • Domain or discipline experts
  • Functional experts 

Domain TWO: ENABLE

SCOPE: Distributed leadership for learning and teaching is enabled through a context of trust and a culture of respect coupled with effecting change through collaborative relationships.

ELEMENTS

  • Context of trust
  • Culture of respect
  • Acceptance of need for change
  • Collaborative relationships 

Domain THREE: ENACT

SCOPE: Distributed leadership for learning and teaching is enacted by involvement of people, the design of processes, the provision of support and the implementation of systems.

 ELEMENTS

  • Involvement of people
  • Design of participative processes
  • Provision of support
  • Integration and alignment of systems

Domain FOUR: ASSESS

SCOPE: Distributed leadership is best evaluated drawing on multiple sources of evidence of increased engagement in learning and teaching, collaboration and growth in leadership capacity.

 ELEMENTS

  • Increased engagement in learning and teaching
  • Increased collaboration
  • Growth in leadership capacity
Domain FIVE: EMERGENT
 

SCOPE: Distributed leadership is emergent and sustained through cycles of action research built on a Participative Action Research methodology

 ELEMENTS:

  • Participative action research process
  • Reflective practice
  • Continuous improvement in learning and teaching