Teacher Leadership: A Survey of the Challenges and Opportunities in Teacher Leaders Program

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the challenges faced by Teacher leaders in rural and urban setting in District Mardan at higher secondary level, to explore the opportunities for teacher leadership development and growth in rural and urban setting at higher secondary level and to compare the challenges and opportunities for educational leadership in urban and rural setting in District Mardan. The study nature was quantitative and survey method was adopted. All secondary schools in KP were part of the population. Sample was selected through stratified random sampling from both rural and urban schools. A likert scale questionnaire was developed to collect the data and SPSS will be used to analyze the collected data. It was found that schools in undeveloped and villages face distinct challenges because they must deal with limited resources. Moreover, they face isolated distribution of their teaching leadership members. It is recommended that DEO’s help and support is required to handle problems that arises from unclear work duties of the staff and heavier work requirements. Moreover, colleague opposition and inadequate backing from senior leadership needs to be addressed.