Effective School Management in EU Dimension Erasmus Project

Project Title

Effective School Management in EU Dimension

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Research and innovation

Project Summary

There are several elements consisting the education at school and one of the most of them is”school management”.Because all the decisions taken and activities carried out by school management teams not only effects students but also all components(teacher,personal,parents)at a school.The duty of school management is to keep alive the school according its objectives.The expected basic function from school headmaster is to reconcile expectations of people(staff and students)and groups out of school and to make real the school’s objectives while directing the school.However,school management teams can face some problems while they are doing their duties.Some of the problems are related to students,teachers,school building and office stock,social,cultural,politic and economic situation of the school’s region,school’s culture and climate,even to the management skills that school management teams have.Therefore,Karaman Provincial National Education of Directorate and the other participant organisations studied on effective school management practices and shared their experiences within the partnership.
Objectives
Through the project we tried to find out general and common problems at schools,especially originated from school management teams and tried to find out solutions to the problems.We also tried to minimize the problems at schools which are located in the regions of partner countries.Addition to these all the partners cooperated and shared their experiences about education,especially on the topic of”Effective School Managenment”.
Participating Organisations
The project carried out by 4 partners from Turkey,Romania,Spain and Italy.
Karaman Provincial National Education of Directorate;is a state institution in charge with the planning and coordination of all kinds of educational and training activities in pre-school,primary,secondary and adult education in Karaman.The instituiton is responsible all of the activities related to schools,students teachers and other stakeholders.The institution gives in service training services to teachers to develop themselves on different topics.Also seminars and courses are held for people in disadvantaged area in order to help them to develop themselves and to find jobs.The instutition also applies and implements both EU and local projects to improve its organisational capacity.
Inspectoratul Scolar Judetean Teleorman;offers training courses on a wide range of topics(school management methodology for all school subjects,interculturality,parent education,human rights,democracy,promoting European values and integration)these courses are either proposed by Teleorman House of Teachers or have been provided as a result of collaboration with various training institutions from other parts of Romania.Being aware of the need to comply with the educational practices from other European institutions,the instution has provided training courses to teachers and other participants to educational process in order develop their knowledge and abilities related to the competencies identified in the European framework.
Nafarroako Ikastolen Elkarte;is to promote in an associative manner the ikastola’s model and the Basque language and culture.It aims to provide comprehensive,quality education,in Basque,offering some services(economic,administrative,educational) legal advice and representation.Among its objectives the Association also seeks and organizes any other educational activity in any branch of knowledge or technical training,artistic,sports or other.
Regione Molise;is a public body and the organisational chart shows that the structure is divided into:Presidency,Regional Council and 6 General Directorate with specific activities and purposes.The system enables an efficient governance providing development of social welfare,economy,infrastructures and employment,protection of historical,cultural heritage,supporting local investments,research and external trade.With its employees and consultants,works for political,legal,economic and social integration in the EU,giving information about European Funding Programmes and supporting for the exploitation of International Relations.It has an’ad hoc’structures with experts and staff with a long experience in the management and implementation of international and European projects.
Undertaken Activities
to produce“Different Aspects of Effective School Management”(intellectual output)
to produce booklet and leaflet
to establish website
to organize a multiplier event for the Intellectual Output
Results and Impact Attained
At the end of the project all the partners had chance to share knowledge with each other and to transfer good practices.There was an effective atmosphere of cooperation.All the activities carried out by the partners had a postive effect on partners and awareness was achieved on the educators about how to manage a school effectively.
The intellectual output of the project will make contibution to the school management on the readers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 84397 Eur

Project Coordinator

Karaman Il Milli Egitim Mudurlugu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Nafarroako Ikastolen Elkartea
• Inspectoratul Scolar Judetean Teleorman
• Regione Molise