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31/12/2017
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brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote
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e lives and make the world a
fairer place.
Role
overview
To support the
development of school leadership and management at school levels to
significantly increase capacity of principals and deputy principals to support
primary grade teachers in language and literacy. The success of this project
will pivot around the ability of this project to improve school leadership
given the strong evidence that equates the quality of leadership to school
improvement and learning. To create an environment that will support the
improvement of language teaching and learning, school leadership has to address
in-classroom factors, such as teaching and resources; in-school factors, such
as leadership and management; and out-of-school factors, such as parental
involvement and socio-economic circumstances. The inclusion of both school principals
as well as deputy principals will ensure that developed competencies and
resources are continuously available at each school.
Skills,
qualifications and experience
• An education
degree or Post-Graduate certificate of education
• At least 6 years’ experience of school leadership or education management
focused on improving language learning outcomes and strengthening school
management
• Fluent English speaker
• Good written skills in English
• Capability to produce accurate, reflective reports with reference to
qualitative and quantitative data
• Key qualities of relationship-building, adaptability and resilience
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position arises that matches your skills and availability, we’ll contact you
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