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Leadership in Action
The process of planning for the teacher leadership initiative from the identification of a need/issue to address to action planning and determining measures for evaluation can be regarded as collaborative action research. Lee, Sachs & Wheeler (2014) contend that teachers can carry out action research through taking what their learning activities in the classroom and leveraging it to help enhance the performance of the school community. Together with my colleagues from the innovation council for change and technology inclusion, we undertook a teacher leadership initiative that was geared towards enhancing the adoption of technology and online resources in teaching practice. This process is geared towards promoting collaboration between veteran teachers and novice leaders in order to improve teaching practice in a manner that helps in meeting the needs of the 21st Century students/learners.
The teacher leadership initiative we undertook is a form of collaborative action research process because it covers the various processes in this type of research. This initiative was a form of collaborative action research in the sense that it entailed the identification of a need/issue to address, action planning to deal address the issue, and evaluation measures. In this case, we identified that the school needs to change its...
We determined several measures to address this issue and evaluate the success of the leadership initiative. Additionally, the initiative can be regarded as a form of collaborative action research since the development of initiative entailed collaboration between different colleagues and was centered on creating a shared leadership environment for all teachers in the school.
This collaboration action research is scientific and systematic, particularly with regards to the established measures for evaluating the success of the leadership initiative. The scientific aspect of this action research is evident in the use of triangulation to help in collection of qualitative and quantitative data. Action researchers typically “triangulate,” meaning they gather various types of data including quantitative and qualitative, and do so for formative and summative purposes to enhance reliability. Moreover, the use of statistical analysis as part of the process of determining the effectiveness of this leadership initiative is also an indicator of how scientific this action research is. On the other hand, the systematic nature…
References
Diana, T. J. (2011). Becoming a teacher leader through action research. Kappa Delta Pi Record, (47)4, 170-175.
Lee, J. S., Sachs, D., & Wheeler, L. (2014). The crossroads of teacher leadership and action research. The Clearing House, 87, 218-223.
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