The Study On Teachers' Instructional Leadership Styles In Primary And Middle School

Instructional leadership originates from US scholars' research on effective schools in the 1970s, and the scholars thought that the principals' powerful instructional leadership played a vital role in enhancing the schools' potency and development. In the school reform movements in 1980s, the instructional leadership became a hot topic in the studies on school leadership. But up to now, the studies on instructional leadership mainly are about principals' instructional leadership, and studies on teacher's instructional leadership is far from sufficient, which limits the display of the instructional leadership's overall function. Besides, more and more researchers declare that instructional leadership is distributed in "the school community", including principals, school district superintendents, teachers and policy formulation personnel, and each takes his own responsibility. The teacher's instructional leadership style is the individual characteristic of teacher's instructional leadership, and is a symbol of high maturity of teacher's instructional leadership. This paper aims to strengthen the understanding of teacher's instructional leadership style mainly through the analysis and discussion of the implication, characteristics, types, basic conditions and the way by which to form teacher instructional leadership style, and finally to promote teachers' professional development, promote the school administration and enhance students' achievements.The introduction part explains the cause of subject selection, the significance, reference review, conception definitions and research methods. The following main body is divided into three parts:First part, the connotation of teacher's instructional leadership style. In this part, the article first explains the the connotation of instructional leadership from the perspective of instructional leadership's concept, the relationships between the instructional leadership and the administrative leadership, the curriculum leadership and the instructional management; then discusses the connotation of the instructional leadership style through that of teacher's teaching style.Second part, the characteristics and types of teacher's instructional leadership style. The characteristics of the teacher's instructional leadership style are divided into four kinds: uniqueness, stability, creativity and development. And the teacher's instructional leadership style falls into four categories: passive and obedient, self-controlled and independent, cooperative and coordinate, designing and planning. The third part, explain the basic conditions and way to form teacher's instructional leadership style. This part mainly analyzes the basic conditions to form teacher's instructional leadership style from the angle of subjective and objective factors. The subjective factors mainly refer to teacher's intrinsic tutelage, the self-encouragement and development and so on, the objective factors mainly refer to the campus culture, the school software and hardware support, student's performance, students' guardian's aspect and the society's understanding and support. This paper separately puts forward some proposals to the teacher and the school and the correlation department to support teachers to form instructional leadership style. For instance, as for teachers, they should develop their own initiatives to pursue instructional leadership style, improve their theoretical minds, reflect their teaching, make a reasonable and flexible usage of the environment resources, positively establish the communication with other people , and offer instructions for students' learning and so on. Proposals for the school and related departments include refreshing education and teaching conception, creating harmonious campus culture, providing software and hardware support to the teacher , and alleviating the teachers' stress and pressure through communication and other ways to guarantee the teachers' psychologically health and so on.