Educational Management Training in Croatia

1. Educational Management Training in Croatia Krk June 11th 2007 Dr. Peter Karstanje Netherlands School for Educational Management NSO

2. Topics • European trends in education leading to needs for management training • The modern school leader • Training methods • Activities • Final outcomes

3. A. European trends • Deregulation • Decentralisation • Greater autonomy of schools • School as part of society • More influence of groups in society (labour market, higher education, interest groups)

4. Trends in schools • Modern ideas about learning (learn how to learn rather than knowledge reproduction, critical reflection, problem solving, etc) • New teaching methods (ICT, group assignments, project work, reporting rather than reproduction • Schools as learning organisations (not only pupils learn, but also staff and organisation) • Greater innovation capacity of schools

5. B. The modern school leader (1) • Has knowledge about modern learning and teaching • Develops a shared vision on education and can implement this in concrete actions • Can change the organisation culture into a learning organisation with innovate, reflective teachers • Know to organise teachers, to optimise the school organisation

6. The modern school leader (2) • Helps the staff to professionalize • Can find resources and set financial priorities to realise the shared vision • Knows to commit parents, community, labour market organisations, municipalities, etc.

7. The modern school leader (3) • Can think strategically: develops long term policy making • Has leadership skills and can apply different styles of leading • Has innovative skills • Has skills to direct people (to convince, to get commitment, to set goals and targets, to install work groups, etc.) • Has communication skills (incl. Conflict solving) • Can manage her personal life (e.g. cope with stress)

8. Model of School Leadership

9. C. Training methods • What did you learn last week? • How did you learn? • Management training is not tell and sell • Adults learn by doing: having real problems in every day life, reflecting on possible causes and attractive solution and reflecting on this. • Adults use a learning cycle like in problem solving: experience a problem, searching for causes, choosing a possible solution and trying whether it works (cycle starts again)

10. Good courses • Work with real problems • Give opportunities for cyclical learning • Offer theory for reflecting on possible solutions • Present a framework to integrate solutions • Offer people opportunities to discover solutions • Produces knowledge that is usable and transferable to other problems

11. How we worked in • Hungary • Russia • Romania • Ukraine • Bulgaria • Belarus • ……..

12. D. Activities • Introductory seminar • Selection of trainers • Whole group follows entire programme (global overview of programme) • Couples specialise in one or two topics • Specialists write a training module and a trainers manual • Courses delivered by specialists and generalist

13. How we will work • Group work • Case studies • Problem solving activities • application of theory • Reflection • Self discovery • Interaction • Co-operation • Etc.

14. Topics (1) • Educational management • Strategic management • Strategies of educational change and coping with barriers • School organisation • Organisation culture • Human resources management • Leadership

15. Topics (2) • Financial management • Quality management • Communication techniques • Quality improvement

16. Material to produce • For each topic: • Theory book with summary of modern theory on educational management • Trainer’s manual with suggestions for training methods and didactical approaches • Student manual

17. Train the trainers • Parallel to the training process • Trainers of trainers are • Prepared to train future trainers.

18. E. Final outcomes • Management training Courses for Croatian school leaders • Well trained trainers • Trainers of trainers to train future trainers • Infrastructure for school management training