Leadership Strategies That Promote Teacher Empowerment Among Urban Middle School Science Teachers

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ABSTRACT

In this study, the researcher focuses on to determine leadership strategies that promote teacher empowerment among urban middle school science teachers. The major area, highlighted by the researcher was to determine to leadership strategies are related to teacher empowerment. The researcher emphasized various forms of leadership and the empowerment of teachers in context to restructuring the democratic structure. An effective leadership in science education entails empowering others, especially science teachers. According to Denton (2001), Bertrand Russell stated the “fundamental concept in social sciences is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics”. In this regard, no published studies had examined the researcher's perspective on empowering the teachers and school leadership. Therefore, this study determines whether a relationship exists between leadership strategy actions and teacher empowerment. The significance of the study is to determine a relationship between leadership strategies and teacher empowerment as a positive approach toward having successful schools. Empowerment acts as a safeguard against being wrong and is essential for implementing serious improvements. Empowering others in the schools has to form a major component of an effective principal's agenda. It is becoming clearer in research literature that complex changes in education sometimes require active initiation. For this study the researcher opt for quantitative methodology. Primary data enabled the researcher to answer the research questions. The researcher ensures the reliability and validity of the research. Furthermore, the researcher discusses the research questions and findings and gives its ...