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Avidov-Ungar, Orit; Tsybulsky, Dina – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2022
This qualitative study examines the professional career-development experiences of 16 teachers holding administrative roles. The study focused on the quality and foci of the informants' experiences over time. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, to elicit the informants' life-story narratives. Qualitative content analysis was applied…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Leadership Role, Middle Management, Career Development
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Avidov-Ungar, Orit; Merav, Hayak; Cohen, Sivan – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2023
The goal of the study was to examine the factors that drove early childhood teachers to accept a leadership role in professional learning communities (PLCs), their perceptions of the role's characteristics and the implications of taking on an additional role beyond the teaching of kindergarten-age children. This qualitative study included 30…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Role, Teacher Attitudes
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Aderet-German, Tali; Segal, Aliza; Vedder-Weiss, Dana – Research Papers in Education, 2021
Teachers play a major role in the success of educational reform, and reforms impact teachers in different ways. This paper explores the relationship between teacher identity and school reform: how a reform affords or constrains teacher professional identity construction, and how teacher identity construction enhances or hinders reform enactment.…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Leadership, Educational Change, Correlation
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Russo-Netzer, Pninit; Shoshani, Anat – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2019
Consensus is growing that teacher leadership benefits teaching quality and student performance. Despite the recognition that teacher leadership contributes to teachers' professional development, little is known about how it is developed and how teachers experience the transition to the teacher-leader role. This study explores the internal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Leadership, Professional Identity, Leadership Training
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Timor, Tsafi – School Leadership & Management, 2017
The study explored the perceptions of student-teachers of educational leadership and management with regard to the roles of homeroom teachers and subject teachers in secondary schools. The participants of the study are students in the biggest College of Education in Israel. The analysis was conducted on the students' posts in an online forum of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Leadership, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Avidov-Ungar, Orit; Friedman, Izhak; Olshtain, Elite – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
This study used semi-structured in-depth interviews to explore empowerment patterns among teachers who hold leadership positions in school. Our qualitative analysis presents a hierarchical ladder with three types of empowerment amongst these teachers, ranging from limited empowerment through rewarding empowerment to change-enhancing empowerment.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Leadership, Semi Structured Interviews