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Exploring the Relationships among Instructional Leadership, Professional Learning Communities and Teacher Self-Efficacy in China
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Zheng, Xin; Yin, Hongbiao; Li, Zhanglin – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
The study explored the relationships among instructional leadership, professional learning community components, and teacher self-efficacy in the context of mainland China. Study subjects were 1082 elementary school teachers participating in a questionnaire survey. The results showed that instructional leadership had significant effects on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes
Teacher Learning as Boundary Crossing: A Case Study of Master Teacher Studios in China
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Zheng, Xin; Zhang, Jia; Wang, Wenlan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
Teacher professional learning is shaped by multiple contexts in a complex way. Previous studies mainly focused on teacher learning in school-based contexts, and rarely explored how teachers learn across schools and in other situations. Adopting the framework of boundary crossing learning, this study examined the processes of teachers' professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Teacher Competencies, Geographic Location
The Influence of Schools' Organizational Environment on Teacher Collaborative Learning: A Survey of Shanghai Teachers
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Zhang, Jia; Zheng, Xin – Chinese Education & Society, 2020
Teacher collaborative learning is currently a trending topic within the international fields of school education reform and teachers' professional development. Schools in China have a long history of teacher collaboration, but have also faced problems such as formalism in their activities, excessive administrative overtones, and so on. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Attitudes
Effects of Leadership Practices on Professional Learning Communities: The Mediating Role of Trust in Colleagues
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Zheng, Xin; Yin, Hongbiao; Liu, Yuan; Ke, Zheng – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2016
The building of professional learning communities has been widely recognized as an effective strategy for schools wanting to improve student performance and enhance teachers' professional capacity. This study explored the relationship between leadership practices and professional learning communities, with a particular focus on the mediating role…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Communities of Practice, Trust (Psychology)