What Student Teachers Say about Teacher Leadership

Teacher leadership, viewed as an emerging leadership aspect teachers can assume in schools to improve student learning, remains an elusive idea among teacher candidates in their pre-service teacher education programmes. The book presents a study which found out student teachers' views on teacher leadership ideas and how these future teachers new to the job could be prepared for leadership realities in school. Within the context of the Initial Teacher Training (ITT), the study was focusing on the course provision which helped future teachers develop their quality and expertise to realise their potential and seize the opportunities for leadership roles which might be available in their respective school. It is interesting to know generic leadership competence the student teachers may acquire from their course, which they can later contextualise when they begin teaching in schools as qualified teachers. So, learning to teach might as well mean learning to lead.