- Value education encourages students’ self-discipline
You are walking along a hallway in a school. The noise from a classroom tells you that a lesson has run out of control and the teacher is unable to cope with the situation. During or soon after the lesson, the teacher knocks on your door, and asks you to intervene....
- Competences for democratic culture: a diagram
This diagram is an attempt to visualize the conceptual model of competences that citizens need to create, and participate in, a culture of democracy. A model is designed to resemble reality in a simplified way, focusing on some key aspects and omitting many others....
- Linking lessons to the real world
Running a school is a demanding task for a principal, requiring that you have a clear idea of your institutional key objectives. There are good ways to link the different issues and small steps like pieces of a puzzle in one big picture....
- Assessing is much more than testing and controlling
Assessment seems like the end of a race. Evaluation seems like the heartbeat of a living body. Their use can make your role as a principal a nightmare or it can offer you a handy tool. As almost everything at school, it is an issue that needs serious attention long before the final exams....
- Knowing and understanding the different kinds of diversity at school
Diversity among your students is a big challenge for your school. If this issue is not addressed adequately, it may affect students’ achievements and their social status in adult life. To provide every student with an equal chance for success in school means to understanding each student’s learning needs and responding to them individually....
