Ondo State Education managers gets Training

The Ondo State Government has commenced the training for education managers as part of the process of enhancing capacity for the implementation of the revised nine-year Basic Education Curriculum in the state.

The review is in response to the current demand of the education system that focuses on the development of human capital to meet the present and future challenges of the society.

Commissioner for Education, Mr. Jide Adejuyigbe, while addressing the participants in Akure, said the need to transform the economy through  sustained educational empowerment of the people informed the decision.

Adejuyigbe said, “The focus of education system all over the world is the development of the human capital required to meet present and future challenges of the society.

“Hence, the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy recognised that Nigeria’s economy could only be transformed and sustained through education that empowers the people.”

He said the training was to position the state to launch education to the next level for quality education delivery and move the sector forward for sustainable development.

According to Adejuyigbe, BEC has the objective of realigning curriculum contents at the primary and junior secondary school levels for continuity.

The curriculum, he added, was to redefine the philosophy of basic education and curriculum contents with a view to addressing emerging issues of values environment, health and technology.

“Viable and credible education system must continuously respond to global and local challenges as well as the peculiarities of individual nations.

“It was on this basis that the National Council on Education directed the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council to revise and restructure the nine-year BEC into 10 teachable, functional and practical oriented subjects, to eliminate redundancy without compromising the quality of education received by learners in consonance with the nation’s transformational agenda,” he said.

Ideas for School Administrators

Here are ten ideas

1) Your School Must Be For All Kids 100 Percent of the Time
If you start making decisions based on avoiding conflict, the students lose. This is what sustained me through one of my most difficult decisions. I asked
the school district to let our school health center offer birth control after four girls became pregnant in one semester. For this group of kids, the health center at
King was their primary health care provider. Although
we offer birth control to our students, we are not the birth control school; we are the school that cares about all of its kids. This decision was the right one, and it cemented for all time the central values of
King.

2) Create a Vision, Write It Down, and Start Implementing It : Don't put your vision in your drawer and hope for the
best. Every decision must be aligned with that vision. The whole organization is watching when you make a decision, so consistency is crucial.

3) It's the People, Stupid : The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate
you away from those who are still undecided. (That's adapted from Casey Stengel.) Hire people who
support your vision, who are bright, and who like kids.

4) Paddles in the Water
In Outward Bound, you learn that when you are navigating dangerous rapids in a raft, the only way to succeed is for everyone in the boat to sit out on the edge and paddle really hard, even though everyone would rather be sitting in the center, where it's safer.

At King, in times of crisis, everyone responds with paddles in the water.

5) Find Time to Think During the Day
They pay me to worry. It's OK to stare at the wall and think about how to manage change. If i have 70 people who work . Even the most centered has three bad days each school year. Multiply that by 70 people and that's 210 bad days, which is more than the 180 school days in a year. So, me, I am never going to have a good day -- just get over it.

6) Take Responsibility for the Good and the Bad
If the problems in your school or organization lie below you and the solutions lie above you, then you have rendered yourself irrelevant. The genius of school lies within the school. The solutions to problems are almost always right in front of you.

7) You Have the Ultimate Responsibility
Have very clear expectations. Make sure people have the knowledge, resources, and time to accomplish what you expect. This shows respect. As much as possible, give people the autonomy to manage their
own work, budget, time, and curriculum. Autonomy is the goal, though you still have to inspect.

8) Have a Bias for Yes
When my son was little, I was going through a lot of turmoil at King, and I did not feel like doing much of
anything when I got home. One day, I just decided that whatever he wanted to do, I would do -- play ball, eat ice cream, and so on. I realized the power of yes. It changed our relationship. The only progress you will ever make involves risk: Ideas that teachers have may seem a little unsafe and crazy. Try to think, "How can I make this request into a yes?"

9) Consensus is Overrated
Twenty percent of people will be against anything. When you realize this, you avoid compromising what really should be done because you stop watering
things down. If you always try to reach consensus, you are being led by the 20 percent.

10) Large Change Needs to be Done Quickly
If you wait too long to make changes to a school culture, you have already sanctioned mediocre behavior because you're allowing it. That's when
change is hard, and you begin making bad deals.

Coutesy: http://www.edutopia.org

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