Learning to Lead: The Role of a Teacher Training Institution

There is a strong belief that in order to improve classroom process as well as its outcomes, teachers' effectiveness should be enhanced. Effective leadership is the most important determinant for the effectiveness of the organization. In a classroom, a teacher assumes the leadership roles for t...

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Main Authors: Bakar, Ab. Rahim, Mohamed, Shamsiah
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 2007
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12520/1/Learning%20to%20Lead.pdf
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description There is a strong belief that in order to improve classroom process as well as its outcomes, teachers' effectiveness should be enhanced. Effective leadership is the most important determinant for the effectiveness of the organization. In a classroom, a teacher assumes the leadership roles for the effectiveness of the teaching learning process. A teacher has to be an effective leader if he or she wants to bring out successful educational outcomes. To be an effective leader, a teacher has to have certain leadership characteristics. This article will discuss research findings of leadership characteristics possessed by prospective teachers trained in UPM. The findings showed that majority of the respondents felt that they possessed leadership characteristics necessary to be an effective leader.
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spelling upm.eprints-125202015-09-07T03:11:48Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12520/ Learning to Lead: The Role of a Teacher Training Institution Bakar, Ab. Rahim Mohamed, Shamsiah There is a strong belief that in order to improve classroom process as well as its outcomes, teachers' effectiveness should be enhanced. Effective leadership is the most important determinant for the effectiveness of the organization. In a classroom, a teacher assumes the leadership roles for the effectiveness of the teaching learning process. A teacher has to be an effective leader if he or she wants to bring out successful educational outcomes. To be an effective leader, a teacher has to have certain leadership characteristics. This article will discuss research findings of leadership characteristics possessed by prospective teachers trained in UPM. The findings showed that majority of the respondents felt that they possessed leadership characteristics necessary to be an effective leader. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 2007 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12520/1/Learning%20to%20Lead.pdf Bakar, Ab. Rahim and Mohamed, Shamsiah (2007) Learning to Lead: The Role of a Teacher Training Institution. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 2 (1). pp. 153-160. ISSN 1833-1882 http://iji.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.88/prod.137 English
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