Increasing Student Achievement through High-Performance Teacher Leadership

Teacher leadership can have significant benefits, but requires supportive conditions, professional training, and effective professional learning. Effective teacher leaders utilize interpersonal skills, diagnose and manage school culture and politics, lead professional growth activities, provide instructional leadership, and assist with human resources management. This book provides strategies for creating supportive conditions and the knowledge and skills needed to meet the challenges of teacher leadership.

Format: Hardback
Length: 136 pages
Publication date: 23 November 2021
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Teacher leadership holds immense potential for both colleagues and students, yet it often fails to materialize due to unsupportive conditions and inadequate professional training. To thrive as teacher leaders, they require a conducive school culture, supportive administrators, ample time to fulfill their responsibilities, appropriate incentives and recognition, and feedback that fosters performance improvement. Moreover, highly effective teacher leaders engage in rigorous professional learning to equip themselves with the skills necessary to excel in their roles and responsibilities. This professional development encompasses effective interpersonal skills, the diagnosis and management of school culture and politics, the facilitation of professional growth activities, instructional leadership, and assistance with human resources management. This book serves as a valuable resource, offering strategies for creating supportive conditions and imparting the knowledge and skills required to navigate the complexities of teacher leadership successfully.

Weight: 435g
Dimension: 228 x 161 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781475863260