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Autonomous Leadership Best Practice on a Regional Level
to tackle Higher Education Students’ Future Competencies for the Private Sector
European Projects Team
Regional Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education in Western Greece, PDEDE
Niki Lambropoulos, Charikleia Pitsou, Giorgos Panagiotopoulos, Andreas Rizopoulos, Sofia Christopoulou, Theodoros Baris, Effimia
Psychogiou, Sindy Tasoula
• Introduction
• Project-Based Methodology for European Projects
• Developing Future Citizens for Local Community
Innovation
• Autonomous Leadership Best Practice
on a Regional Level
• Preparing Future Higher Education
Students and Citizens
• Conclusions
Agenda
1. 3rd biggest directorate in Greece
2. 3 Prefectures; Achaia,
Etoloakarnania & Ilia
3. 1,300 schools of both levels of
education -primary and secondary-
4. 12,000 appointed teachers of all
disciplines
5. Head of the Directorate since
January 2010 is Dr. George
Panagiotopoulos
Introduction: EU-PDEDE
• 90 percent of problems are process, not employee problems (Coate, 1990)
• Leadership and educational policy: relationship of the higher education to the future markets.
• Transformational leadership (Papadimitriou, 2011)• efficiency (ability to perform)• effectiveness (ability to fulfill political objectives)• accountability (ability to legitimize the results)
• Evaluation of Greek higher education focus on• existing structure of secondary education• infrastructural inadequacies of tertiary education• problematic system of entrance • powerful social pressures • contribute to the development of excessive central regulation and
student emigration
Autonomous Leadership
European Qualifications Framework (EQF: knowledge, skills, competencies - expert)
a) Project-based method for authentic learning
b) Direct implementation • of related EQF knowledge,
skills and abilities• in authentic creative
learning environments
c) Community Innovation • engagement of the local and
regional authorities • social and community
innovation • project results
sustainability
EQF @EU-PDEDE
Project-Based Methodology:Authentic Problem Solving
1. Student-centred learning2. Small groups3. Teachers as facilitators or
guides 4. A problem forms the basis for
organized focus & stimulus for learning
5. Problems stimulate • CoCreativity • Problem solving skills
6. Self-directed learning
6 core PBL characteristics are (Barrows, 1996)
Project-based Computer Supported Collaborative eLearning (CSCeL)
• Team-based activities promote the innovation cycle in practice
• Students’ coCreativity: idea generation and implementation in actual project proposals for real funding opportunities
• Objectives, daily activities and tasks are macro- and micro- scripted to promote students’ improvisation
• Teachers orchestrate the learning activities
• The transactive time and cost is reduced to minimum
• Interface support of scripting
• Student evaluation example– Critical thinking levels (15%, 3 marks)
• 4 Participation Levels: Null, Low, Medium, High (15%, 3 marks)– Real life team project (30%, 6 marks)– Online individual questionnaire (40%, 8 marks)16
User/Learner Generated Context/Content
Activities & Activities & Collaborative Collaborative
Learning Learning ConvergenceConvergence
Part of the social competence is the ability to
• communicate constructively in different environments,
• show tolerance, express and understand different viewpoints
• negotiate with ability to create confidence
• feel empathy (EU, 2006)
Developing Future Citizens for Local Community Innovation
1. Sense opened citizen
2. Knowledge based citizen
3. Active citizen
4. Communicative citizen
5. Productive citizen
6. Creative citizen
7. Reflective citizen
The Future Greek Citizen
1. Personal: a personal capacity for and commitment to a civic ethic characterized by responsible habits of mind, heart, and action
2. Social: capacity to live and work together for civic purposes
3. Spatial: capacity to see oneself as a member of several overlapping communities − local, regional, national & multinational
4. Temporal: capacity to locate present challenges in the context of both past and future in order to focus on long-term solutions to difficult challenges
Interconnected Dimensions (Grossman, 2001)
Cooperation with Local Organisations and Companies – Innovative School Projects
• Match cultural and regional educational needs
• Culture the learned beliefs, values, rules, norms, symbols, and traditions that are common in Western Greece
• Way of life, customs, and regional narrative (Gudykunst & Ting-Toomey, 1988)
Leadership is related to culture
Autonomous Leadership Best Practice on a Regional Level
• New Hierarchical Structure
• EU-PDEDE initiative Employed several methods and
techniques to develop students’ new competencies so to bridge the gap between higher education requirements and the future market
Project-based methodology Innovation Management
Autonomous Leadership–Preparing future citizens
Facilitates, supports and directs their implementation • Disseminates the results and best practices impacting the teachers’ views, attitudes, perspectives, ideas and everyday educational practices
EU-PDEDE via European Projects
International Capacity, Skills & Knowledge
Preparing Future Higher Education Students / Citizens
Universities, National Ministries of Education, Regional Educational
Institutions and local schools explore their relations
Conclusions
Students need to
• be competent in leadership, knowledge and
skills, even, in demanding situations
• enable themselves to promote educational,
economic and social progress and international
engagement in their societies and communities
• unfold their talents
• pursue their own individual goals ad dreams
Need to be qualified to meet the
radically altered external
educational environment
which impacts citizens’ future in
Western Greece
Future Greek Students..
Thank you for your attention!!
Dr. Niki Lambropoulos
EU-PDEDE Project / Team Manager
Thank you!!European Projects Team
Regional Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education in Western Greece, PDEDE
Address:Dimaion Coast 25Α, P.C. 26222, Patras, Greece
Phone: +30 2610 362407
Website: http://blogs.sch.gr/eu-pdede/