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Leading as Boundary Crossing: How Teacher Leaders Lead across a Professional Learning Network in Shanghai China
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Zeng, Yan; Lo, Leslie N. K. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
This paper explores how teacher leaders enact leadership practice across a regional learning network, Master Teacher Studios, an officially initiated teacher learning program in Shanghai. It investigates the leadership strategies that are employed for cross-boundary endeavors in the network. The concepts of "boundary" and "boundary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Leadership, Teacher Education, Educational Strategies
An Effective Model of Teacher Appraisal: Evidence from Secondary Schools in Shanghai, China
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Zhang, Xiao-feng; Ng, Ho-ming – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
Teacher appraisal has been widely practised in China for decades. With the introduction, in 2009, of the teacher performance pay system, however, teacher appraisal has undergone certain changes. This study explores the practice of teacher appraisal, using a qualitative approach and taking public schools in Shanghai as its research sites. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Teacher Evaluation, Secondary School Teachers
What Impedes the Development of Professional Learning Communities in China? Perceptions from Leaders and Frontline Teachers in Three Schools in Shanghai
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Zhang, Jia; Yuan, Rui; Yu, Shulin – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
Using qualitative data collected from three high schools in Shanghai, this study explored the barriers to the development of professional learning communities (PLCs) in Chinese schools from the perspectives of school leaders and teachers. Results indicate that the barriers identified by teachers in the development of PLCs include insufficient…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Barriers