Improving Schools Through Teacher Leadership
Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Teacher Leadership: Theoretical Background
Chapter 1 Teacher Leadership
Chapter 2 Distributed Leadership
Part Two: Enhancing Teacher Leadership
Chapter 4 Building Professional Learning Communities
Chapter 5 Meaningful Professional Development
Chapter 6 Generating and supporting Teacher Leadership
Part Three: Recent Studies and Evidence
Chapter 7 Teacher Leadership and Teacher Effectiveness
Chapter 8 Teacher Leadership and Differential Effectiveness
Chapter 9 Teacher-led School Improvement: A Research Study
Chapter 10 Successful Teacher Leadership
Chapter 11 Emergent Teacher leadership
Chapter 12 Restricted Teacher Leadership
Part Four: Future Directions for Teacher Leadership
Chapter 13 Nurturing Teacher Leadership
Chapter 14 Improving Schools through Teacher Leadership
References
Index
This book explores how teacher leadership is an intrinsic and important part of school and classroom improvement. It investigates teacher leadership in action and considers the roles, responsibilities and influence of teachers who lead. It considers the implications of teacher leadership for teachers’ professional development and focuses on ways in which this important form of leadership can be fostered and enhanced. The central message in this book is that teachers play a critical role in leading improvement in the classroom and school level and that this form of leadership contributes directly to raising achievement among learners. This book is crucial reading for all those who are concerned with teacher and school development, school leadership and school improvement.