A personal leadership statement

This paper explores teacher leadership as a powerful tool for educational improvement, especially in the context of foreign language teaching. Based on Daft’s (2008) leadership perspective, the paper highlights how leadership is not only about holding a formal position, but about guiding, influencing, and supporting others through collaboration and shared goals. Teacher leaders can play an essential role in creating a positive school culture and improving classroom practices. The paper reflects on how our personal and professional assumptions affect the way we lead. It discusses how collaborative learning during the course helped uncover those assumptions and promoted deeper reflection. It also presents key questions that future teacher leaders should ask themselves to grow in their practice. The section on leadership empowerment explains how teachers can be motivated and supported to take initiative, develop confidence, and influence change. Supported by research, the work shows that effective leadership depends on trust, inclusion, and teamwork. The final reflections show that empowering teachers leads to stronger, more innovative schools, and helps ensure quality in foreign language education.

• Autores: Negrete Burgos, Yimis Andrés; Oviedo Morales, Jesús David
• Tipo de recurso: Trabajo de grado de pregrado
• Fecha de publicación: 2025
• Institución: Universidad de Córdoba
• Repositorio: Repositorio Institucional Unicórdoba
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unicordoba.edu.co:ucordoba/9282
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unicordoba.edu.co/handle/ucordoba/9282; https://repositorio.unicordoba.edu.co/
• Palabra clave: Liderazgo docente; Empoderamiento; Suposiciones; Colaboración; Educación en lenguas extranjeras; Cambio educativo; Teacher leadership; Empowerment; Assumptions; Collaboration; Foreing language eduaction; Educational change
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Copyright Universidad de Córdoba, 2025