APPROACHES TO DEVELOPING FUTURE TEACHER LEADERSHIP TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ HUMAN VALUE CREATING GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

Abstract

This research aims to: 1) study the present and desirable states and priority needs of future teacher leadership development; 2) propose approaches to developing future teacher leadership to enhance students’ characteristics based on the human value creating global citizenship concept. This study used a mixed-method approach. The sample population comprised 220 volunteer student teachers, 68 school administrators and teacher mentors, plus 16 experts, totally 304. The research instruments were questionnaires and interviews, plus an evaluation form. Data were analysed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Modified Priority Needs Index (PNI_Modified) and content analysis. The research findings reveal that there are 4 future teacher development main approaches: 1. Develop student teachers’ personal growth to be the role models coaching students to conduct knowledge and wisdom-based lives and to respect human value in themselves and others; 2. Exalt student teachers’ leadership competency to be the role models having a service mind, equipping students with team working skills and social justice-based interaction capacity; 3. Cultivate a model teacher’s spirituality in student teachers to support students to conduct their lives based on sufficiency and sustainability; 4. Enhance student teachers’ potential to become the model researchers endowing students with dialectic critical thinking through proactively practical guidelines.