Description
Teacher leadership remains at the forefront of conversations in teacher education, with discussions on recruitment, retention, and effectiveness. Teachers are at the core of schooling, and the roles they assume and types of leadership they engage in are multi-dimensional. Teacher leadership comes in many shapes and definitions. In this sense, both opportunities and challenges exist in teacher leadership. While national competencies continue to define dispositional and knowledge base for teacher leaders, there is still work to be done to define and add to the body of scholarship on this topic. Teacher leadership opportunities provide development for teachers as a key retention strategy; however, role ambiguity presents challenges in how to empower teachers for formal and informal roles of leadership while maintaining the teacher identity.
Empowering Formal and Informal Leadership While Maintaining Teacher Identity provides a comprehensive look at the opportunities and challenges of teacher leadership, drawing on research and practice that add to the body of knowledge for teacher leadership, which is a niche in education that differs from educational administration. Highlighted topics within this book include models for teacher leadership, teacher education, types of leadership roles, the development and retention of teacher leaders, and leadership across different types of school districts. This book is ideally designed for inservice and preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in teacher leadership roles and the way in which teacher identity is maintained in relation to these other leadership positions.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Bryan Zugelder (Ed.)
Bryan S. Zugelder
is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Partnerships in the College of Education at James Madison University. Zugelder is Program Director for Teacher Leadership graduate programs. Prior to James Madison University, he was Assistant Professor of Elementary Education & Middle Grades Education and Teacher Leadership at East Carolina University. Zugelder has provided leadership for statewide efforts on teacher education and development. He served as Director of Teacher Preparation and Development at the University of North Carolina System, Executive Director of Undergraduate Affairs & Partnerships and Director of Clinical Experiences at the University of Central Florida, and provided state-level coaching to principals and literacy coaches in schools with Reading First federal funds. Zugelder was elementary mathematics project manager at the Florida Department of Education and also taught elementary grades in Seminole County Public Schools and Leon County Schools in Florida. Zugelder has published and received grant funding in the areas of teacher preparation, teacher induction, and teacher leadership.