Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Keith Suranna Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 180 ISBN: 9783838328874
Описание
Teacher empowerment remains a major key to educational reform in the United States, and yet among the many practical difficulties consistently faced by teachers throughout our history are a lack of substantial decision-making power and an overwhelming feeling of being controlled and dominated. Conversely, teacher leadership is a concept that entails empowering teachers, those directly impacted by decisions made from “above”, to play vital roles in what actually occurs in the classroom. Yet, in this era of high-stakes testing, teacher leadership often gets left behind. Thus, this study examined: 1) the nature of teacher leadership as it is perceived by preservice and inservice elementary school teachers, and university and public school faculty members and administrators; 2) how teacher leadership is manifested in practice; and 3) the extent to which teacher education encourages and develops teacher leaders. This timely work presents valuable information to better understand factors...
