Teacher Leader Competency Development: A Panacea for a Vuca World?

ABSTRACT

The rate of change today, be it in political, economic, social or technological realm that impacts and disrupts many of today's organization, is to say the least, a daunting challenge. The chain of unprecedented events such as pandemic Covid-19, massive floods and other environmental disasters happening both within local and global contexts, are some of the lists of difficult challenges that characterized a VUCA world. As the challenges seem mountainous to school leadership, from navigating the quarantine guidelines, school closure and re-opening, remote learning, student engagement, and constant change, many are of the belief that teachers need to be empowered as leaders in order to move from the survival mode to a more thriving school environment. As such, there is a need to rethink on the development of teacher leaders' competencies against the background of a VUCA world by first, identifying the crucial competencies that need to be developed among teacher leaders. Thus, this paper aims to promote teacher leadership competency model that suits a VUCA context by integrating multiple perspectives and researches on teacher leadership, leadership development, the VUCA world and the teacher leadership competency model. The belief is that through a proper teacher leader development it will help to inculcate VUCA-readiness and responsive leadership among teacher leaders which consequentially enhance school effectiveness. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.