The Importance and Strategy of Developing Teacher Leadership Capabilities

Abstract

Teacher leadership is an important component of educational leadership. The concept of teacher leadership was created to provide teachers with opportunities for their own development. By working with their colleagues to mutually promote and improve teaching and learning practices, they are able to make contributions to the sustainable development of their schools. This article concludes with a summary of the main theories of teacher leadership in order to better understand how to promote teacher leadership development. Then, it analyzes the importance and current situation of developing teacher leadership and provides suggestions for future promotion. The importance of teacher leadership include: effectiveness of school management, leading other teachers, development of students, professional capacity. In the managerial leadership model, the focus is on school strategies to improve teacher leadership, such as empowering teachers and increasing teachers' awareness of their own leadership role. In the transformational and distributed model, teachers are required to be more active in their development, for example, improving their professional knowledge and consciously developing and implementing plans.