Oct 12 2007
About
The school leadership project is a central component of the British Council’s strategy for schools in Indonesia. With an ambitious target of linking up to one thousand schools in our two countries, we are seeking to engage with schools at all levels. With heads, representing the most influential group in developing policy and strategy in schools, with teachers who influence curriculum and teaching content, and finally students whose development as successful global citizens fulfilling their full potential is the reason schools exist in the first place.
The school leadership project emerged from a series of strategic visits in both directions in the first half of 2007, including a visit by Tom Whittingham and Liz Townend, who together with colleagues in P4TK and the Ministry of Education designed a programme to engage with Indonesian heads in three ways: improving leadership skills, supporting individual school development projects and, providing a framework for introducing an international dimension into school life.
Being a school head can be a very solitary activity where the risks are high, but also the potential rewards. To create a platform for dialogue with heads in the UK is a highly innovative component of the programme and is designed to meet the needs and interests of heads and aspiring heads in both countries. Using peer review, coaching and mentoring, heads in Indonesia can engage with their counterparts in the South Gloucestershire undergoing coaching and mentoring skills training. By becoming ‘critical friends’ to their Indonesian counterparts we hope a mutually beneficial relationship will evolve, one that will permeate beyond the leadership programme per se and ultimately lead to wider engagement across their schools.
This programme is unique to the British Council and offers a fascinating opportunity for heads to learn from and with each other in our two countries.
Good luck with this endeavour.
Selamat belajar bersama!
Chris Palmer
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Hello to all who recently visitied South Gloucestershire as part of the ‘Trainer of Trainers’ programme.
we all enjoyed working with you so much and now look forward to moving our work and learning forward with many more of your colleagues in 2008/09.
Please take time to complete your evaluations of the visit, share these with Itje and Leli so that they can be forwarded to us in South Glos, in order that we can help support your future learning.
I hope too that we can get many of the photographs and the video up on this site, to help refresh the memory and stir our spirits!!
Remember…’the future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating;the paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the makre and the destination’.
Take care, and hear from you all soon,
Mr Tom