This book provides input to support the development of teacher leadership model that promotes the inclusion of 21st century leadership values, skills, and knowledge, and formally into Malaysian Teacher Preparation Programs. As teacher leadership is the process to convince others to practice new approach and become more skilled, and the effectiveness of Teachers’ Leadership Competencies matters in establishing Principals’ Developmental Leadership Behavior (PDLB) and Teachers’ Commitment to Change (TCC), the effectual approach to develop teacher leadership is through Teacher Leadership Competency Model (TLCM), as proposed in this book, is by executing a process to influence PDLB through Teachers’ Leadership Competencies and subsequently creating ways and conditions which nurture and sustain the excellence and monitor those developmental leadership behavior as a way of assessing progress so to develop TCC. It would be a timely finding which Malaysian Teacher Preparation Programs includes newly developed Teacher Leadership Competency Model (TLCM) into teacher training module and schedule in order to produce competent teacher leaders for the future.

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