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Teacher Leadership
Development program need a holistic focus, that includes relational learning that is a focus on building relationship, collaboration leadership and reflective practice, and leaders must understand the nature of learning Mahlangu (2014)
Principal develop teachers by delegation, mentoring coaching and motivation, SMT, HOD involvement through workshop, IQMS and motivational speakers.
Leadership may be stretched over a range of people who work at different levels in a scholl.
Types of teacher development: Individually guided staff development.
Observation/ Assessment
Involvement in improvement practices.
Training
Inquiry
Lead within and beyond the classroom, identify with and contribute to a community of teacher learners and leaders influences others towards improved educational practice
Aspects of teacher leadership. 1 Lead students and other teacher. 2. lead operational tasks. 3. lead through decision making or partner
Functions of teacher leaders:
Curriculum development knowledge
School decision making
Improve classroom teaching
performance education leader
Leading the way to effective teaching
Improve on student achievement.
Search for innovative strategies as instructional and school leaders but are often stifled by prescriptive policies that drive them from the profession
Benefits of teacher leadership : improving sch
ool effectiveness.
Improving teacher effective.
Contributing to school improvement
Implications
Teacher will seek external leadership opportunities.
May be a strategy to retain the most effective teachers.
Professional networks for teachers offer a means by which leadership can be nurtured and expertise can spread.
How can teachers demonstrate leadership within the school
Distribute the responsibility and power for leadership widely throughout the school.
Sharing decision making power with staff.
Allowing staff to manage their own decision making committees.
Take staff opinion into account.
Encourage effective group problem solving during meetings of staff.
Altering working conditions so that staff have collaborative planning time
Adequate involvement in decision making.
Creating opportunities for staff development.
Skills of teacher leadership
Data collection
Manage change processes
Build trust
Effective use of resources
Building skills and confidence in others
Barriers to teacher leadership 1. Organizational barriers (Top-down leadership model .
Professional barriers, feelings of being less connected to peers when engaged in teacher leadership.
References
Berry, B., Daughtery, A. & Wieder, A. 2012. Teacher Leadership: Leading the Way to Effective Teaching and Learning. CTQ- Center for Teaching Quality. Teacher Leadership-Research-Quality.
Bogotch, I & Shields, C.M. (2014). International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Social (In)Justice. Springer International Handbooks of Education. 29, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6555-9_29
Lowery-Moore, H., Latimer, R.M. & Villate, V.M. 2016. The Essence of Teacher Leadership: A Phenomenological Inquiry of Professional Growth. International Journal of Teacher Leadership. 7(1).
Cook, J.W. 2014. Sustainable School Leadership: Teachers’ Perspective. NCPEA International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation. 9(1). National Council of Professors of Educational Administration.
Grant, C., Gardner, K., Kajee, F., Moodley, R. & Somaroo, S. 2010. Teacher leadership: a survey analysis of KwaZulu teachers’ perceptions. South African Journal of Education. 30, 401-419.
Harris, A. & Muijs, D. 2003. Teacher Leadership: principles and practice. National College for School Leadership.
Mahlangu, V.P. 2014. Strategies for Principal-Teacher Development: A South African Perspective. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 5(20), 1738-1747.