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Rwandan Journal of Education
05/06/2015

Vorig jaar publiceerde de 'Rwandan Journal of Education' een paper van VVOB over 'het coachen van schoolleiderschap in het lager onderwijs in Rwanda'. Deze publicatie is nu ook online beschikbaar. Auteurs zijn Jef Peeraer, Hans Zult en Leon N. Mugenzi, allen lid van het VVOB-team in Rwanda. Met hun paper willen ze inzicht geven in het coachen van schoolleiderschap en in het meten van de impact van een professioneel ontwikkelingstraject rond schoolleiderschap. Het tijdschrift wordt uitgegeven door de University of Rwanda – College of Education.

 

Abstract
School leadership is identified as a crucial element for improving the quality of education. This article describes a project on school leadership in Rwandan primary education, in which different groups of head teachers received inputs in varying degrees input on school leadership and follow-up coaching by their sector education officers. A self-assessment tool has been developed to map training needs and to measure professional capacity development, addressing eight dimensions of school leadership. By comparing the mean self-assessment scores of about 196 head teachers, over the course of the first year of the project, we identify how the different experimental groups perceive similar training needs, especially on the dimensions of “reshaping conditions for teaching and learning”, “enriching the curriculum” and “enhancing teacher quality”. However, even at the start of the project, the different experimental groups seem to use the self-assessment tool in different ways. We discuss that further research is needed on the use of the self-assessment tool as measurement as well as capacity development instrument.