Teaching Professionalism Values and Its Relationship with Teacher Leadership Attribute

Abstract

This research aims to identify the relationship between the values of teaching professionalism and teacher leadership attribute. A total of 168 teachers from three primary schools were selected to participate in this study. A set of questionnaire was used for data collection and the data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The findings show that the level of self-values, professionalism values and social values of primary school teachers are relatively high, while the result for the teacher leadership attribute also show a relatively high level. The overall findings lead us to conclude that there is a significant correlation relationship between the values of teaching professionalism and the teacher leadership attribute. The Implications of this study is; every teacher must have high professionalism values as the key feature in order to become a leader.