英文摘要 |
Although with good intention, the effectiveness of teacher evaluation for professional development (TEPD) is limited, and there are plights and challenges need to be overcome. There are strategies to break through the dilemma of TEPD, and teacher leadership is an important strategy. Teacher leaders are able to enhance peer's professional growth, participating conversations, sharing feedback, and reflecting on practices and empowerment. Moreover, teacher leaders can promote school reform and improve school performance through upward leadership and leading parents into joint participation in education. Finally, teachers' leading
behavior achieves the social expectations of assuring quality instruction. In other words, it will affect teachers' professional development and students learning quality, and ensure the overall quality of teaching as well. It also matches the social and professional expectations, and indirectly reaches the goals of TEPD. This article first expound the essence of teacher leadership, and then analyze the plights of TEPD. The inspiration of teacher leadership to overcome the plights of TEPD is illustrated in the end. This paper provides five teacher leading strategies to overcome the plights of TEPD. First, enhancing teachers' motivation to participate in the evaluation system through various modes of teacher leadership and professional development. Second, breaking through teachers' resist mentality via critical reflection, professional growth, conversation, and interaction. Third, improving and strengthening teachers' participation in decision-making, and implementing the functions of professional teaching and research. Fourth, building and reinforcing diverse professional learning community, and developing conversations to share the culture of learning. Finally, increasing participation and support to form excellent study style through parallel leadership to influence parents community. |