Abstract:

The paper focuses on exemplary leadership practices in Slovak teachers. Our aim was to find out how the exemplary leadership practices in the teachers´ educational practice differ depending on their gender, marital status and the school level. We examined exemplary leadership practices using a Slovak mutation of the Leadership Practice Inventory (LPI) by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, developed by L. Kaliská. The research group consisted of 191 teachers from several Slovak primary and secondary schools. The analyzed data were part of a dataset processed by a research team within the project APVV 17-0557 Psychological Approach to Creation, Implementation, and Verification of Educational Leader´s Competence Model Development. We focused on comparing leadership behaviors in different groups of teachers. We observed statistically significant differences in leadership behavior between men and women in the Model the Way, and Encourage the Heart subscales, between single and married individuals in all subscales except Challenge the Process, and we did not observe statistically significant differences between primary and secondary school teachers in any LPI subscale. In Slovak schools, this topic is minimally represented at the theoretical level, and due to current educational trends, it is necessary to pay increasing attention to it.

Keywords:

Exemplary Leadership, teacher, gender, marital status.