Transformational Leadership

Transformational leadership has a profound influence on teacher collaboration and a positive relationship exists between its characteristics and the changes of teachers'' attitudes towards the improvement of an educational institution and the transformed instructional approaches. For bringing about this change the transformational teacher-leaders foster the values of integrity honesty innovation initiative passion and empathy. These novice teacher leaders are nurtured in teacher education institutions. Hence the transformational leadership has become a quality indicator of a teacher education institution. Transformational Leadership of Teacher Educators argues that the transformational leadership among novice teachers can be inculcated through transformational teacher educators. The book focuses on the conceptual framework of teacher educator transformational leadership and its components in detail. The book highlights various means and ways to develop the transformational leadership style. The scope of the book is not only confined to education but all leadership development contexts.