A study of primary school teacher leadership in Taiwan

Author(s):

Terng-Ji Sheu

Conference:

ECER 2008

Network:

16. ICT in Education and Training

Format:

Poster

Session Information

MC_Poster, Poster Session; Main Conference

All Poster are presented in the two Poster Sessions of ECER 2008: - 11 September 12.15 - 13.15 and - 12 September 12.15 - 13.15

Time:

2008-09-11

12:15-13:15

Room:

Poster Exhibition Area

Chair:

Contribution

With implementing educational reform of schools in Taiwan, teachers need to have more participation and take more responsibility in curriculum, instruction and organization. Therefore, the roles of teachers are changed dramatically. Teachers can’t continue to serve as the followers but should assume the roles of teacher leaders. Actually, the teachers have been playing the roles since educational reform. However, they still have ambiguity about what is the teacher leadership and how to play the roles of teacher leaders better. Therefore, this study aims to explore the connotations and influential factors of teacher leadership in Taiwanese primary schools by reviewing the literature about teacher rsearch, distributed leadershipand participative leadership and analyzing the positive data from interview, panel discussion and questionnaire survey.

Method

For the above objectives, the researcher will collect the primary school educators’ opinions of teacher leadership implementation in Taiwan. The major methods of data collection include interview, panel discussion and questionnaire survey. Data of interview are collected from 30 teacher leaders in primary schools by using interview protocol. The panel discussion will be conducted through the question about teacher leadersip to collect opinions from 20 participants' discussion including 5 scholars, 3 principasl, 5 teacher leaders and 7 primary school teachers. Questionnaire surveys are used to collect data from 1270 educators of public primary schools in Taiwan.

Expected Outcomes

After data analysis and discussions, the results will indicate the findings about characteristics, functions, roles, approaches, and influential factors of teacher leadership and provide the beneficial suggestions of five dimensions involving teacher learning, teacher-teacher interaction, teacher-student interaction, organizational restructure, and resource rearrangement for improvement of primary school teacher leadership in Taiwan.

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Author Information

Terng-Ji Sheu

National Taiwan Ocean University

Institute of Education and Teacher Education Center

Taipei County

215

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