Description
Training program for top and intermediate school leaders –an approach to organizational development in a Portuguese municipality Seixal is a Portuguese municipality with 13 schools / school groupings. The principals of these organizations have formed a municipal council of principals and they meet regularly to discuss common challenges concerning educational leadership. This council has reached to Universidade Católica Portuguesa, asking its Faculty of Education and Psychology to develop a training program to better prepare them in overcoming these challenges. Consequently, the Faculty prepared and implemented a training program entitled “Educational Leadership, Organizational Culture and Development”. Two groups were formed: principals and intermediate leaders. Some of the sessions were delivered simultaneously but separately to the two groups and others, have gathered the two groups for joint reflection and planning. The program had a total of 25 presential training hours and addressed five main topics: School as an organization; The role of leadership in school organization; Professional Identities and Cultures; Pedagogical Innovation and Educational Change; School Evaluation, Improvement and Professional Development. By the end of the training program the principal and intermediate leaders of each school / school grouping were challenged to use the design thinking methodology in order to come up with a creative solution for one of the problems they were asked to identify throughout the different training sessions. This presentation aims to provide further details on the training program and its implementation, as well as to share the participants' perceptions on the program, its potential and impacts for the development of their schools.| Period | 30 Sept 2022 |
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| Event title | World Education Leadership Symposium 2022 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Organiser | Institut für Bildungsmanagement und Bildungsökonomie |
| Location | Erfurt, Germany, ThuringiaShow on map |