ABSTRACT

This article describes the processes employed in developing the Social Justice Teacher Leader Self-Assessment (SJTLSA), a tool designed to foster teacher leader self-reflection, stimulate collegial dialogue, assess school culture, and direct social justice initiatives. Tool development procedures included examining precedents, developing a prototype, establishing face validity and pilot testing. The resulting SJTLSA offers a procedure for systematic self-evaluation of six dimensions of teacher leadership: Dispositions, Knowledge, Personal Attributes, Personal Experiences, Leadership Skills and School Culture. The final format includes 75 closed-response questions, a self-scoring guide, and reflective questions to help respondents identify a personal focus for action research. When used in multiple contexts, the SJTLSA has been found to increase self-awareness, expand knowledge of social justice and teacher leadership and increase respondents’ identity and agency as teacher leaders. Through its content and structure, the SJTLSA theorizes the knowledge, attributes and dispositions essential for social justice leaders, and the leadership skills, personal experiences and school cultures that support teacher leaders to be effective as change agents. As a practical tool that stimulates reflection and dialogue, the SJTLSA supports practitioners including informal and formal leaders in school systems, graduate program faculty, and facilitators of professional development and leadership development programs.

摘要

本文介绍了开发社会正义教师领导者自我评估（SJTLSA）所采用的过程，该工具旨在促进教师领导者自我反省，促进大学间对话，评估学校文化并指导社会正义计划。工具开发程序包括检查先例，开发原型，确定人脸有效性和试点测试。由此产生的SJTLSA为教师领导力的六个维度的系统性自我评估提供了程序：性格，知识，个人特质，个人经历，领导能力和学校文化。最终形式包括75个封闭式回答问题，一个自我评分指南以及反思性问题，以帮助受访者确定行动研究的个人重点。在多种情况下使用时，SJTLSA已被发现可以增强自我意识，扩展社会正义和教师领导能力的知识，并提高受访者作为教师领导者的身份和代理能力。通过其内容和结构，SJTLSA理论化了社会正义领袖必不可少的知识，属性和性格，以及支持教师领袖有效地担任变革推动者的领导技能，个人经验和学校文化。作为激发反思和对话的实用工具，SJTLSA支持从业人员，包括学校系统中的非正式和正式领导人，研究生课程教师以及职业发展和领导力发展课程的促进者。通过其内容和结构，SJTLSA理论化了社会正义领袖必不可少的知识，属性和性格，以及支持教师领袖有效地担任变革推动者的领导技能，个人经验和学校文化。作为激发反思和对话的实用工具，SJTLSA支持从业人员，包括学校系统中的非正式和正式领导人，研究生课程教师以及职业发展和领导力发展课程的促进者。通过其内容和结构，SJTLSA理论化了社会正义领袖必不可少的知识，属性和性格，以及支持教师领导者成为变革推动者的领导技能，个人经验和学校文化。作为激发反思和对话的实用工具，SJTLSA支持从业人员，包括学校系统中的非正式和正式领导人，研究生课程教师以及职业发展和领导力发展课程的促进者。