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Leadership is vital for the adequate development of society. Therefore, strong leadership skills are required to be fostered among teachers since these individuals are responsible for effectively supporting, instructing, and mentoring future generations by providing them with both useful knowledge, as well as values and attitudes for a lifelong learning. This statement attempts to present a general perspective about leadership in educational contexts based on several authors along with a personal definition of it from the viewpoint of future teacher leaders. Moreover, exploring the relevance of enhancing teacher leadership skills through empowerment is also a main concern of this writing.

Although leadership has always been present in history, it seems to have become more relevant in recent years in various aspects of daily life. In education, the importance of teacher leadership is higher now than ever due to the globalization and unprecedented technological changes that educators are facing. This document seeks to reflect our previous knowledge on leadership, as well as deepening the research and definitions of authors on the subject. Likewise, this document includes our first insights about empowerment and the use we give to our assumptions to lead educational processes and how they lead us to leadership empowerment. This study is important because of the pressing need to improve teaching and learning processes, and, in turn, because of the fundamental role of teachers as agents of change in society.

University of Córdoba and the accompaniment and academic tutoring in the internship modality has allowed the teachers in training to explore a real-life context working with students belonging to the first levels of the undergraduate degree, that is, in the space between the first and fifth semester. of the degree in English in Monteria -Córdoba, with the purpose of applying different strategies and practices that help these students not to abandon their studies and feel the academic and psychological support of the faculty and the university well-being. Despite the fact that this was an innovative project, there were not many references that showed the guidelines for developing it, so various details were omitted that consequently led to several errors in its execution. To give continuity to the project, it was established to work on the design of a plan that was directed by the selected coordinators and teachers in training. The objective of this pedagogical report was to describe my experience of the methodological process through activities and lesson plans, which I used to help some students in communication and grammar courses of the English major. As well as the description of the activities carried out throughout the internship process. The approach based on modeling and gamification was used so that the classes were much more didactic and that the students could see the utility for a better acquisition of the language and also as enrichment for the teacher in this field of university education.

This is a description of our current leadership profile and how it will help us to empower ourselves in order to get a better teacher performance.

The purpose of this personal statement is to explain the different processes that a teacher must have, some of these characteristics are: developing learning strategies to encourage collaborative work, and encouraging the empowerment of teachers and future leaders, in order to develop strategies and skills in future generations. Through the years, empowerment and leadership have been of great accompaniment for teachers to develop new strategies and skills in the teaching process. That is why today leadership has been of great importance in achieving objectives in favor of improving educational processes. This work is focused on guiding teachers in their leadership process in schools so that they become empowered and capable of training other future leading teachers.

This study determines the conditions by which leadership empowerment is a necessity for the field of education. In order to reach or achieve empowerment during the teaching and learning leadership of the apprentices, teachers need to start making their own cooperative decisions based on the given resources in order to take the risk of improving, enriching, and developing new proposals based on the diversity found in the educational environment. This paper focus on highlighting the importance of being an empowered teacher leader in the classroom. This guided course provided all of us with the necessary qualities and characteristics to recognize our main factions as leaders, and also how to use these characteristics to positively influence the educational system in our environment. This leadership statement proposes the need that every teacher needs to take part in leadership empowerment.

Leaders are able to understand how to achieve results while motivating followers, this ability to keep teams engaged and motivated is a quality shared by the most effective leaders. Team members could easily quit the ideal if they are not committed to it; in order to keep people involved with one another and with the goal, leaders must adapt and change their leadership perspective. Due to this, this paper defines transformational leadership as a way to inspire both followers and leaders to communicate, encourage, and have a vision while also conveying empathy, confidence, and integrity, through the development of school projects, and plans to allow students to gain the responsibility of a social engagement while growing the desire to improve living conditions in their communities and inspire others to take the same path towards change, becoming positive role models and eventual leaders after being guided and educated by teacher leaders.

This paper describes the experience of the research internship in the teaching of English as a foreign language in a public school in Montería. The purpose of this was to establish the findings after having used the multisensory approach as a way to encourage and improve the different types of intelligence and develop effective learning of the English language in the preschool students of the Antonia Santos school. To achieve this, several lessons were designed taking into account different pedagogies (Multisensory Approach, Theory of Multiple Intelligences) to support the methodology and activities developed in the process during the internship. Consequently, three main results can be reported. In the first place, the students demonstrated through their performance and participation which way it was easier for them to learn. Secondly, it was evidenced due to the interest of the students in the use of multisensory activities that the different types of intelligence identified were highly encouraged. Thirdly, the performance results obtained at the end of the process accounted for the significant improvement in the types of intelligence in the students. All this significantly helped the effective learning that the students had regarding the learning of the English language.

Current and future teachers like us and in general all the subjects involved in the challenging world of education need to keep in mind the essential role of leadership skills and their empowerment not only in teachers but also in the students. We assume collaborative work as a key strategy to achieve real leadership skills given its high relevance to developing social and cognitive skills that reinforce the acquisition of leadership skills. This paper basically attempts to follow Matshediso’s (2008) statement which focuses mainly on teachers leadership and the way how professional training help to enhance this ability not only in teachers but also in the rest of actors involved in the process, especially the students in early cognitive stages(from birth to 9). It also provides personal assumptions about the topic and finally exposes the main implications of leadership empowerment for future teachers. Following this line, the present paper works essentially around these basic questions: 1) Why is it important to be more than a teacher - to be a leader for our students? 2) How do teacher leaders include diversity in their teaching practices? 3) How can teachers as leaders improve themselves?

Throughout history, the concept of leadership has shifted and evolved in such a way that not only are there plenty of definitions related to it but, subsequently, different types of leadership. Due to this, when treating this topic in the educational context, the metaphorical lines between leadership and authority have been blurred. This personal leadership statement details our notions, approach, and forward-looking aspirations as teacher-leaders. This paper is a culminating learning task of a Lifelong Professional Development: Empowering Foreign Language Teachers course. Accordingly, this statement seeks to bring innovative and transformational ideas about learning and authentic leadership to the educational community as a support for their journey into the ever-changing educational system. This statement then acts as a premise and foundation to positively impact the construction of leadership and empowerment values in education as teacher-leaders.

Leadership is fundamental in every field of study; it encourages people to make positive changes and help others collaborate to perform remarkable things. Different perspectives of leadership exist; when we are aware of the leadership that best suits our goals, we may successfully lead others, which improves everyone's performance and overall job accomplishment. Hence, this leadership statement will focus on teacher leadership; this perspective will help us contribute to education and achieve what we want to improve in educational settings as future teacher leaders, which is to increase teacher collaboration to enhance students’ learning process. As future teacher leaders, we prospectively plan to empower teachers by offering ongoing professional development and providing leadership opportunities; giving teachers the chance to lead professional development sessions, serve on committees, or take on other leadership roles, which can help them feel more invested in their work and provide a sense of ownership over their professional development.

In the educational progress of an institution, leadership is a skill that enhances the efficiency and equity of education of a group, not only of individuals. Its function is to improve the results and influence the motivations and abilities of all the members that belong to it, and what better way than to implement the term empowerment and authenticity to promote positive changes? In this personal leadership statement, we cover key leadership concepts, our own assumptions, and the possible implications if we implement them in institutions with a plan for future development as great leaders. The plan is to use empowerment to transform the process of being a teacher into a more authentic and open leader. Thus, the plan proposed leads to better satisfaction and growth.

A very difficult term to explain, leadership entails directing a group of people toward a shared objective in the most effective manner possible without sacrificing our morals and principles. Leaders are responsible for the acts they conduct. It is important to deal with the acceptance of leadership as a discipline, achieve consensus on course content, and integration on the part of the staff and influence the intrinsic motivation of students to achieve their progress. We must move toward transformational leadership, in order to form the foundation that strengthens us to take hold of distributive leadership. In this scenario, it is vital to consider the interrelated factors that have been identified, such as personal, social, structural, contextual, and developmental. Educational principles must serve as a basis for supporting inclusion, participation, and engagement, as well as sustainable leadership. In fact, that process involves mentoring; placing the student at the center of learning and the practice of leadership at the center of the educational stage. Considering the flexibility and mobility demanded in a new economy, represented by the knowledge society; and the need for a new approach to leadership development.

Throughout the years there have been different methods and approaches that have evolved hand in hand with the field of education, helping teachers to implement and develop their classes in a better way. However, teacher leadership is one of the most professional ways which has been adopted in institutions for the delivery of better teaching techniques. This paper describes the different meanings of the importance of leadership and its implications in the educational sector. Thus, in this paper, we will give a response that may show our own disposition and understanding of leadership in relation to the several concepts of leadership, collaborative work, and empowerment. The plan is to empower the educational community. Consequently, this plan assists those different members of the school with the aim of achieving personal and common goals.

Leadership has become essential when achieving any goal, especially in the educational field, in which educators have been more aware of the relevance of the most influential component of a group. Teacher leaders find significant teaching experience as a vital element of the learning process and consider it necessary to attain excellence. This paper focuses on a teacher leadership perspective, assumptions and implications for the future regarding leadership which will help us to determine the approach to future decisions, practices and experiences. The plan is to reflect on and achieve an understanding of the concept, characteristics, and approach of leadership while implementing it and its perspective of teacher leadership as a philosophy which guides us to a better and new understanding. The plan is to encourage teacher leaders to consider different perspectives, therefore strategies and methodologies for empowering ourselves and the ones in our surroundings.

The development of leadership abilities to guide quality education and inspire students to achieve higher performance has emerged as a main objective. Hence, to reach high achievements, it is necessary to conduct leadership in the academic field, specifically as teacher leaders. In this personal leadership statement, we reflected on the diverse concepts and our perception of what being a good leader means, our assumptions, empowerment, and implications for the future. The plan is to incorporate transformational leadership in future teaching practices taking into account the strategies and empowerment in learning proposed in the statement.

The present study analyzes, from the perspective of pre-service teachers, the learning opportunities that may arise as well as the challenges they face during the application of TBL in relation to students' speaking development. The concepts that guide this research are Speaking, which is explored from the perspective of Bailey (2000), who understands it as an interactive process seeking to create meaning to the message transmitted. Also, the TBL approach and its framework proposed by Ellis (2014) with 3 phases: Pre-task, During-task and Post-task, as well as the concept of Learning Opportunities which, according to Grabbe (2003) is the access to favorable learning circumstances. For the implementation, a task on Power and Justice was applied in a public school in Monteria, in tenth graders. The qualitative approach under the case study method was followed. For data collection class observations, researchers' and students' journals and artifacts were used to answer the question. In terms of findings, two categories were pre-established: learning opportunities and challenges. From the above, the opportunities of: Providing input in terms of language and new knowledge to encourage students to speak in class, negotiating meaning between students and teacher during the lesson and Provoking student thinking on the topic of power and justice, emerged. As well as the challenges of Coping with the overuse of L1 and the linguistic difficulties, The Inclusion of demanding topics such as Power and Justice and Fulfilling the head teacher's demands regarding the course's syllabus (content and time). This study concludes that this approach offers the opportunity to use language in meaningful ways such as developing critical thinking, using, and acquiring new knowledge but the fear of making mistakes may limit student’s participation and the demands of following grammar-focused content and time limitation may hinder the demands of TBL application.

The document reports the internship experience carried out under the program Córdoba transformada with students from zero grade in a public institution. The focus of this paper is to explain how positive social emotional relationships were developed by early-age learners during the English classes. The approach to achieve the desired outcomes were based on observations, group work and dynamics. The findings demonstrate the importance of a positive social environment when learning a foreign language.

This report describes the internship process and results conducted at Colegio la Salle Montería. It consisted of teaching to nine graders. The main purpose of this internship was to provide a space in which the students could feel comfy to express and interchange their opinions through directed conversations or a conversation club about interculturality and how does this work. This paper discusses the teaching practices, methodologies, results, conclusions and suggestions, and limitations of this meaningful experience.