TEACHERS AS EFFECTIVE LEADERS OF EDUCATION IN CLASSROOM: NEW DIMENSIONS
Keywords:
teacher leadership, leadership roles, leadership positions, leadership strategies, climates of change and diversityAbstract
The notion of teacher leadership is not new. Now it’s transformed. In the past, teacher leadership roles of education’s change have been limited in scope. As the movement to restructure school continues, teachers are increasingly being called upon to provide leadership in classroom. Leadership is a key ingredient of education’s management in classroom. It represents both an attempt to integrate many formerly disparate programs, and methods, and an attempt to change traditional views of education in profound ways. Accomplishing these major purposes requires the leading teachers to exercise the skills. The leadership style of successful teacher change view on traditional models of education in classroom. Effective teacher leadership is designed to operate in climates of change and diversity. There are five strategies in leadership of education in classroom. Lead teachers confront a number of constrains as they learn new roles and relationships. Encouraging teachers to assume leadership roles in education in classroom appears to be working in contemporary secondary school.
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