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/