Strategies for Enhancing the Leadership in Junior High School Teachers in Regional Schools of Chaozhou City, China

Background and Aim: The "teacher-school community" connected by "teacher+school" is an important issue that modern organizational behavior has long focused on, especially the strategy of enhancing teacher leadership in the teacher-school community, which has become a widespread focus in modern school development and reform. In 2018, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council jointly issued the "Opinions on Comprehensively Deepening the Reform of Teacher Team Construction in the New Era", which further strengthened the requirements for improving teacher leadership from a policy perspective, greatly highlighting the value and significance of exploring strategies for enhancing the leadership of junior high school teachers at the level of combining theory and practice. Materials and Methods: Focusing on the strategy of enhancing the leadership of junior high school teachers, this study aims to solve the problem. Based on the systematic deconstruction and dimension division of the connotation of junior high school teacher leadership, a questionnaire survey is conducted to systematically investigate 1106 teachers of junior high schools in Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, China. Using SPSS software to collect and analyze the data, a comprehensive investigation is also conducted on the problems in their leadership development, the causes of these problems, and targeted scientific strategies that align with the development needs of regional teacher leadership. Results: The questionnaire survey shows that the leadership of middle school teachers in Chaozhou City is at a moderate level, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in each subdimension. Conclusion: Researchers have proposed strategies for enhancing the leadership of junior high school teachers from five dimensions: professional leadership, cultural cultivation, organizational development, home-school cooperation, and social appeal.