The Impact of Principals’ Transformational Leadership Behaviours on Teacher Efficacy and Leadership Development
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2017-12-14
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As processes and contexts for educating students alter, school leaders are expected to shift their leadership styles to effectively cultivate school climates that proactively accelerate student academic success. Transformational leadership has garnished attention and recognition in many educational settings, and encourages principals to respond collaboratively and innovatively to the complexities of change that exist within our school communities. As such, the purpose of this mixed method study was to explore the leadership practices of school principals, as perceived by principals and their teachers, and ways in which the practice of transformational leadership impacts the development of teacher leadership and teacher efficacy. The researcher used the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ 5X) as a baseline for identifying principals who are practitioners of transformational leadership. Next, purposely selected principals and teachers within a particular school district in a mid-sized city in Ontario took part in face-to-face semi-structured interviews. This study adopted a qualitative approach of thematic analysis to investigate the lived experience of teachers’ and principals’ relationships in school settings from a strengths-based perspective. The ideas and concepts about transformational leadership reported by participants were consistent with the work of researchers who framed transformational leadership as entailing leaders who: articulate a vision, foster acceptance of group goals, provide intellectual stimulation and individualized support, model best practices and important organizational values, demonstrate high performance expectations, create a productive school culture, and develop structures to foster collaboration in school decisions. This dissertation contributes to the research literature by establishing that principals with abilities as transformational leaders were insightful elements of teachers’ leadership development and sense of self-efficacy.
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Principal, Transformational Leadership, Teacher Efficacy, Teacher Leadership
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Kamatovic, D. R. (2017). The Impact of Principals' Transformational Leadership Behaviours on Teacher Efficacy and Leadership Development (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.