Leading And Autonomy: Teachers Leadership And Management In School Change

Promoting teachers'professional development not only needs many external conditions, but also school organizational culture, leadership style, management ideas and teaching change. In fact, teachers leadership and management which is closely connected to teachers'daily work plays key roles in promoting teachers'development. The paper thinks correct leadership needs effective management to realize, and management needs leadership in value guidance and goal orientation. It's impossible to mobilize the enthusiasm and autonomy of teachers, or developing teachers' professional ability and increasing teachers'high sense of achievement through one-sided leadership or management. Only with the reform of leadership pattern and the renewal of management concept, can the quality and level of teachers' professional development be ascended, and revive teachers'professional dignity.Firstly, the paper makes a brief analysis on the effects and problems of teachers management change since reform and opening-up in China. Although there are some effects, like teachers management process has gradually been to be perfect, diversified teacher management mode has also enriched the development of teachers'theory and practice, teachers'professional development has received enough attention, etc.There still remains a few problems, such as organizational structure restricts the essence of the teachers' management, low efficiency, teachers' consciousness of self-management is weak, lacking of effective incentive mechanism of teachers' professional development. School culture, the learning organization, motivation and guarantee mechanism which is helpful for teachers'professional development still need to be construction.Based on the analysis above, the author believes that different forces, interests and relationships are unceasingly reorganized and formed under the current background of transformative school change. As a decisive force of school change and school sustainable development, human beings are getting more and more attention. In this context, school leadership and management has clearly not been able to adapt the need for change if they solely rely on traditional institutional constraints, control, simple rewards and punishments. This needs to remind the teachers'roles and functions in teachers'leadership and management, understand correctly the human value, develop initiative of different subjects and achive colorful life of multi-agent. After that, the paper discusses transformation in the ways of teachers leadership and management. It's essential to develop teachers' leadership, strengthen the study of teachers management relevance and pay attention to professional leading in teachers' professional development, only in this way can we effectively arouse teachers' sense of autonomy, initiative and creativity.The next, on the basis of analyzing the facts influencing teachers leadership and management, the paper proposes that teachers' development is a continuous, dynamic process which throughout teacher' s whole caree. Various factors influencing teachers' development are complex interweave, constantly changing. In other words, promoting teachers' development through teachers leadership and management will make substantial progress based on this one premise that internal and external factors commonly play active and effective roles. External factors focus on the supports and helps of local education administrative department. While internal ones mainly on organizational culture, school leaders, middle managers, teachers' leaders and teachers' self-consciousness and so on.Finally, as the practical application of teachers leadership and management, principles and tactics of leading and managing teachers' professional development will become key points to be explored. It should follow some principles for the characteristics of teachers' professional development, like long-term, aptness, fair, creativity and autonomy. And how to lead and manage teachers' professional development, the paper also puts forward some proposals on strategies:cultivate research-oriented learning team, teachers' career planning, teachers leadership development as well as the promotion of teachers' professional consciousness.