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Research On The Effect Of Middle School Teacher Leadership On The Students’ Learning In H Region

Posted on:2013-07-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T Y XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2247330371492081Subject:Educational Economy and Management
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The middle school teacher leadership is the comprehensive influence to the students generated by the teachers who work in the secondary schools, including junior middle schools, senior middle schools and senior secondary vocational schools. With this kind of professional authority and informal power, teachers might encourage students to realize their teaching goals, to know content well and to share school education vision.On the basis of The Five Forces Model of leadership, through literature review, the paper has established a theoretical frame of the teacher leadership factors. In this frame, the teacher leadership consists of five elements, they are:the charismatic leadership; the teaching leadership, the influential leadership, the decisive leadership and visional leadership. In this research, the secondary schools of the H-region are the survey objects.420students and120teachers are sampled from four secondary schools, including a junior high school, an exemplary middle school, an average high school and an exemplary vocational high school. Furthermore, it has analyzed and demonstrated the univariate and multivariate influence of leadership elements of secondary school teachers on student learning by taking advantage of empirical analysis and through questionnaires.Based on the analysis and demonstration, some findings in the thesis are as follows:First of all, the Teaching Leadership of Secondary school teachers can significantly affect students’ learning.Secondly,The four elements of the secondary school teachers’ personality, such as self-expectations, personal efficacy, the affection to education, the ethic level could significantly affect students’ learning. The love of ethics can all have great impact on students’ learning. Among the four factors, the affection to education profession is the most important element, and has the greatest impact on students’ learning.Furthermore, teacher’s professional knowledge and skills, the ability to understand and satisfy the needs of students are the key element of the four variables forming teacher educating influence to improve students’ learning. Moreover, they are both the basis for effective teaching.In addition, the decisive leadership can greatly improve the performance of teachers in classroom management. If a teacher was able to combine its decisive leadership with classroom teaching management closely and effectively, he or she could quickly improve students’ learning.Last but not least, the students’ personal learning vision is the condition that teacher visional leadership can effectively impact students’ learning, that is, expectations of teachers to students have to be suitable for the characteristics of students’ knowledge condition and personality development.Accordingly, the article has made some following recommendations:Firstly, the higher education sector should establish a scientific training system on teacher leadership to improve teachers’ teaching efficiency and effectiveness; Secondly, Schools should change the management model so as to establish a learning team of teacher leadership to enhance teachers’ leadership; lastly, Secondary schools should focus on school-based training and strengthening the construction of high effective contingent of teachers to cultivate and develop teacher leadership.
Keywords/Search Tags:The Five Forces Model of Leadership, Teacher Leadership, SecondarySchool Teacher Leadership, Students’Learning
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