School Administration and Educational Innovation

Skills to be developed:
1– Critical analysis skills:
1) Analysing and interpreting the school and the school organisation in the light of the technical contributions of education sciences, particularly in the areas of the sociology of education and the school, the educational or comparative education policy, the curricular theory and organisational sciences, as well as public administration and administrative law.
2) Informing the decision-making process in research and educational innovation procedures.

2– Intervention skills:
1) Leading innovation processes, involving the educational community and creating support networks for change in the school.
2) Promoting the participation of the educational community in decision-making processes.
3) Using methods and techniques for planning and educational, organisational, heritage and human and financial resources management, particularly when scheduling the academic year.
4) Using curricular management models in the organisation of educational programmes.
5) Preparing educational and financial projects, respecting the importance of the pedagogical dimension.
6) Assessing educational contexts, situations, programmes, processes and products, both at institutional level and at intermediate level, in order to improve the quality of the educational projects.
7) Coordinating and promoting educational support, social support and curricular flexibility programmes.
8) Establishing programmes for interaction between the school and the educational area and particularly between the school and the family.
9) Promoting a climate of appropriate human relations in school organisations and managing conflicts.

3– Training, supervision and assessment skills:
1) Coordinating the organisation of training programmes and plans for teaching and non-teaching staff.
2) Coordinating educational guidance and social entertainment programmes in the school.
3) Coordinating research activities and programmes that allow both for understanding the educational phenomena and process and the implementation of organisational transformations.
4) Supervising the implementation of the organisational programmes and processes and personal performance.
5) Coordinating the assessment of teaching and non-teaching staff and curricular management and the management of human resources and physical and financial resources.

4– Consultancy skills:
1) Cooperating in the preparation and clarification of the dossiers and materials relative to the performance of the members of the different bodies in the school.
2) Advising the members of the administration and management bodies in the school, the local education board, the educational area centre and the training centre in the school association on how to conduct proceedings, particularly decision-making.