Public school principals undergo management training

1700 recent graduates of the Leadership Academy’s long-term training module, the Training Educators for Excellence Project, received certificates today for their participation in the training from August until October, 2016.

The organisers believe that successful completion of the Leadership Academy modules will help school principals to improve their practical skills in the following areas:

• Effective financial management, time management and human resources management;
• Implementing a student-centered learning environment;
• Developing learning communities;
• Implementing innovative and interactive methods in schools;
• Introducing a monitoring and evaluation system focused on a long-term development.

The project is implemented by the National Center for Teacher Professional Development and supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia. Photo by Leadership Academy

Magda Magradze CEO of the Millennium Challenge Account – Georgia said the Leadership Academy will contribute to improving the quality of teaching and learning at Georgian public schools.

Moris Dandurishvili director of Khashuri #1 public school in Georgia’s eastern region of Shida Kartli said the training has helped him figure out what specific changes he had to adjust to the school to improve its management. He said being the part of the Leadership Academy he realized that he had to change "the existent authoritarian leadership style by organizational learning system model”.

As a consequence, we have an improved environment in school that is easily noticeable for everyone, where collaboration, teamwork and reciprocal teaching is our daily routine”, he said.

Irina Abuladze, Project Manager of the Training Educators for Excellence at the ceremony. Photo by TEE Project.

Training Educators for Excellence Project initiated by the Millennium Challenge Account - Georgia was launched in January 2016 with a $140 million contract signed between the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a United States government corporation, and the Government of Georgia back in 2013.

The project is implemented by the National Center for Teacher Professional Development and supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia.