Teacher Leadership Traits
In this assignment, you will read about various theoretical and practical approaches to leadership that decentralize control and are designed to fully utilize organizational members as resources for leadership. In schools, that means they promote the use of teachers as leaders. You will also read about traits exhibited by effective leaders. Leadership is a topic where the lines between scientific theory, philosophical theory, and practical approaches or models tend to blur, but most leadership models or approaches are theory-based. These philosophical and scientific theories and their practical applications as leadership models or approaches are variously labeled as distributed, shared, democratic, ecological, participatory, moral, servant, parallel, and trait-based. They all address in some way the relationship between community and leadership and how each promotes and strengthens the other. They each identify or allude to the type of individual characteristics of effective leaders in organizational situations or systems and address teamwork and collaboration.
You will choose three of these theory-based models of leadership and describe, compare, and contrast them using at least one peer-reviewed article for each. The readings for the module and articles referenced at the end of these directions should be useful, and other peer-reviewed articles you may find are also acceptable if they explain leadership.
