First session of “Reserve School of Young Leaders -2021”
The efficient functioning of a modern school results from the use of management as a conceptual basis of intra-school administration, implementing a person-centered approach to administrate the educational process, as well as mobilizes all resources to achieve the final results of the school's activities.
The head of a general education institution needs a large stock of complex administrative skills: the ability to set goals, shaping them in the tasks, design and plan the work of the entire school, organize the pedagogical process, diagnose, analyze, monitor the educational process and make management decisions based on monitoring data. This, in turn, determines the need to improve the system of training a leaders’ reserve, in relation to the main types of their professional activities before being appointed to an executive position.
For this purpose, we organized the Reserve School of Young Leaders -2021. Its course program “Education Manager” is integrated and includes pedagogical, psychological and administrative subjects, totaling 96 hours. Candidates admitted to the reserve will undergo coursework, which is carried out throughout the year and consists of 4 terms.
On 1-4 November, 2021, according to the annual plan of Shygys Regional Center of Education Administration of East Kazakhstan region, the first term “Management Psychology” was held as part of the project “Reserve School of Young Leaders -2021”. The courses were taught by Galina V. Gryzunova, Professor of the branch of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan on East Kazakhstan region, and a senior lecturer Gulfiya B. Oktyabrevna.
The preparation of the reserve has been created in order to ensure the high quality of the personnel potential of the leaders of the education system, to meet the needs of East Kazakhstan region in executive staff and to reduce the period of their adaptation when appointing to positions.
The content of the 4-day course included current topics of today's leadership. The listeners got acquainted with the peculiarities and challenges of today's VUCA world, the portrait of the transformational and situational leader was discussed in group activities. Answering the question: what skills should today's leader possess? The trainees got acquainted with such concepts as HARD and SOFT SKILLS, learned how to create an effective team and practice profiling and empathy skills in practice. The theme of empathy was broader uncovered in the further topic - emotional intelligence. The listeners were interested in the IQ theme and with the help of the proposed cases, the participants lived in different situations, developing their IQ.
Time management was full of tools to help identify thieves of time, types of goals Franklin Pyramid, prioritization of ABC methods and Eisnehower matrices.
The trainers took into account the pedagogy of andragogy and additionally used the “online immersion” format, combining independent, group and individual work.
During the classes, the trainees completed the assignments and following this course, they conducted a group defense of mini-projects of future leaders.
The second session will continue during the winter holidays.