Leadership for teacher development

Success of educational institution depends upon the quality of teachers.Teachers development means enhancing the quality of teachers to deliver required contents in an effective way.Teachers can enhance their performance through the acquisition of knowledge and learning new methods and techniques to teach.Teachers development is associated with the social,physiological or cognitive and technical skill development.They need both human intelligence and emotional intelligence.
Situational leadership model is very good and appropriate tool for teachers development.The teacher trainer or mentor can use it to train the teacher.If the teacher is in experienced and crude,the trainer provides high task behaviour and lowrelatiioin behaviour.When the teachers are unable but willing,the trainers provides high task high relationship behaviour to encourage them to make more competent .When the teachers are able but unwilling,the trainer and the head teachers provide low task and high relationship behaviour to participate the teachers in tasks.As the teachers became gradually more competent and skilled,the snior authority can give morer autonomy or freedom.Trainers and higher authority`s behaviour depends on the readiness or maturity of the teachers,