XlRI- Xavier School of Management launched a unique leadership and management programme for school teachers currently in or moving into leadership roles at the ‘Teach India; Reach India’ - National Colloquium on School Education held today.
Conceived by CeRTEl (Centre for Research, Training, Education and leadership), XlRI, the new programme - PG Certificate in Applied Educational leadership and Management in collaboration with Fordham University, USA aims at enhancing the effectiveness of the teaching community by improving their support structures and the domain and managerial competence of its care givers.
Speaking about the program, Rev. Dr. Francis Peter, S. J. Chairperson, CeRTEl, XlRI said, “Majority of the Principals take over their roles as administrators without any formal leadership and managerial training. They often only have their teacher diploma, and move on from hands-on managing and developing some practical ways a mind set to run their institution. In response to the request of the Principals at a focused group discussion, CeRTEl has launched the PG Certificate in Applied Educational leadership and Management for school teachers currently in or moving into leadership roles.”
This Specialised Year-long Online Course has been carefully designed with the objective of improving leadership administration in the emerging educational contexts; acquire and adopt the right leadership style for managing change; keep abreast of research & educational practices that enhance teaching and learning; enable a deeper, critical understanding of the organisation, and the environment we operate in; and, grow and develop along with colleagues, organization and stakeholders.
The program's curriculum includes sustained input, job-embedded
activities, collegial discussions, and hands on project and is designed to provide participants with practical educational leadership skills. The course module spread across 12 months is divided into 4 modules and 15 courses. 10 of these courses will be delivered online in D2D (Desktop to Desktop) mode and the remaining 5 in workshop mode at XlRI campus. The training mode is to follow Blended learning format, comprising m- Knowledge component through lectures; Skill component through Workshops; and Competence building through Projects by experienced professors of XlRI and other renowned institutes along with faculty from Fordham University, USA.
“This blended learning is designed for those from any of the Boards of Examination who seek to understand and enhance the teaching/learning climate of their staff and students for improved organizational performance, quality, customer satisfaction, effective management and control, and therefore financial stability resulting from managing and developing people well,” Dr. Francis Peter, SJ further added.
Participants would be awarded Diploma on the Annual Graduation Day at XlRI and would gain XlRI Alumni status.
