Course «Leadership and effective management at school»

On September 20-24, 2021, in order to improve the qualifications of heads of secondary education organizations, the course «Leadership and effective management in schools» was held at Abai University, in which school directors and the leadership of the Education Department of the Almaty region and the Education Department of the Karasay region took part.

Course speakers: Winner of the Bolashak Scholarship of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, graduated from the University of Nottingham in the UK in 2010-2011 with honors in Education Leadership and Management, Winner of the Social Scholarship of the European Conference for Research in Education (ECER) in 2021, Anar Mukhtarova; and a Master of Education Leadership and Management at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom under the Bolashak Program, a research assistant in the analysis of the Teacher Leadership in Kazakhstan (TLK) program, Arailym Soltanbekova.

During the course, the following topics were widely discussed: «Introduction to the theory of leadership in education»; «Introduction to Research Methods in Education: Practical Application»; «Difficulties of the first year of managing a general education school: mini-research in the education system of Kazakhstan»; «The main stages of the formation of changes in the field of education at the school level: the actions of the school director at each stage»; «The Role and Rights of the School Director of the 21st Century».

At the end of the course, all participants were awarded certificates from Abai KazNPU.