OLE Nepal Focuses on Leadership
OLE Nepal is instituting a new leadership training program to advance its use of ICT and open educational resources in classrooms across the country. Headmasters and Parent Teacher Association chairs were among the educators and community leaders being brought into the program as the school year began in Nepal in April.
“Although most headmasters we have worked with are committed and have good intentions, most of them have not been trained specifically to have the leadership skills necessary to reach out to teachers and motivate them in adapting completely novel teaching-learning concepts that integrate ICT into daily pedagogy,” according to OLE Nepal.
Lesson plans, professional development, and incentive structures are among the tools being emphasized. As for the rationale behind the new program: “We view the hardware and the content it contains as resources. The teachers are still the main agents in the delivery process. Therefore, the impact of the project will be hugely influenced by whether or not teachers ‘buy into’ the new approach and are motivated enough to use these resources to best effect. Good leadership is essential to making this happen.”
