Open AccessTalent leadership strategies enhance teacher’s professional competencies in 21st century education for sustainable development
Author(s) -
Ping Xu,
Xiaoyao Yue
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/373/1/012003
Subject(s) - sustainability , professional development , sustainable development , education for sustainable development , pedagogy , psychology , sociology , medical education , political science , medicine , ecology , law , biology
At present, integrate sustainability with education has been put one of the school’s mission. Students must master sustainability skills. In order to explore the desirable methods of K-12 teacher’s professional competencies on education for sustainable development and to identify talent leadership strategies could enhance teacher’s professional competencies in 21st century education for sustainable development, this research adopts the content analysis method. The author systematically reviewed and analyzed related research works on education for sustainable development, teacher professional competencies and talent leadership strategies. According to the synthesis the results of content analysis, the desirable methods of K-12 teacher professional competencies for sustainable development are as follows: content focus on sustainability with 21st century skills, collaboration with peers, active learning, apply models of learning sustainability in practice, peer-mentoring, feedback and evaluation, duration. teacher professional development. To achieve the second research objective, the author found that the talent leadership strategies could enhance the professional competencies of K-12 teachers for sustainable development, including K-12 teacher professional development methods, K-12 teacher professional competencies, student performance and focus on student achievements.