A Contemporary Leadership Model to Promote Teacher Leadership

Abstract

The idea of leadership is rapidly changing. This article presents a contemporary leadership model comprised of three elements necessary in a successful guide to recognizing and promoting teacher leaders. The elements include establishing an appropriate school culture, recognizing teacher leaders, and inspiring teachers' confidence. These three elements, along with enabled teacher leadership, result in positive cultural outcomes, effective administration, empowered teachers, and relevant organizational policies and procedures which focus on the student. Recommendations are made for teacher education and administrator preparation programs to incorporate these elements into the training of future educators.