Good Leadership and Teaching Competencies of Public Schools Master Teachers

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The latest trend in education today is to empower the teachers; the front-liners in education to become effective teacher leader. Effective education leadership makes difference in improving learning. Teachers who engage in teacher leadership in any capacity have seen its impacts on learning community. Leadership, in whichever model it embraces, has as central goal to ensure and maintain the school improvement which has to do with the quality of teaching; the most influential factor of students’ achievement. Master teacher is one of the front-liner in instruction that needs to grasped the essentials strategies in teaching and learning to ensure that the students learned most. one who goes above and beyond to ensure a positive learning experience for each student and who shares his or her knowledge with the broader learning community. Teacher leadership skills and competencies of a master teacher are needed for the successful of learning community. Unfortunately, there were times that master teachers cannot perform well their tasks or their performance does not reach the optimum results. This study was anchored by the importance of having good leadership and teaching competencies of public schools Master Teachers towards proposing an enhancement program for master teacher relative on their needed program to enhance their competencies and skills as teacher leader. Good Leadership as to their professional teaching competencies, core behavioral competencies and core skills.