Instructional Leadership and Teachers' Intent to Leave: The Mediating Role of Collective Teacher Efficacy and a Shared Vision

• In Event: 77.018 - The Role of Leadership in Supporting Teachers and Improving Climate

Abstract

Research in the last few decades has consistently shown that principals are powerful players who can affect school effectiveness. Teachers’ intent to leave is very costly and may result in decreased school standards. This study tested an innovative model which explored the direct and indirect relationship between principal instructional leadership (IL), collective teacher efficacy (CTE), a shared vision and teachers' intent to leave. The participants in this study included 1,700 teachers and 130 principals from 130 elementary schools. The results of Structural Equation Modeling showed that IL promoted a shared vision and CTE, which in turn decreased teachers' intent to leave. Importantly, both CTE and a shared vision emerged as prominent mediators between IL and teachers' intent to leave.

Authors

• Mowafaq Qadach, Ono Academic College

• Chen Schechter, Bar-Ilan University

• Rima'a Da'as, Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education