1. Workshop on Principals Training: Conclusions and Recommendations
Input for Roundtable Discussion

2. Impulses from Plenary Session 1 (I)
Need for Professionalization of Principals – What starting package is needed and what CPD?
Define Task Profile and Competences – Criteria for becoming a principal?
Modularized approach
Link training to licensing and promotion?

3. Impulses from Plenary Session 1 (II)
Needs: team work, leadership skills, quality management (internal, external),…
Career cycle of principals
Modern (training) methods for modern schools (‘student-centered learning’)
Practical training (case studies, etc.) but based on current research
Training of trainers
No ‘copy and paste’ but make use of available
knowledge, experience and resources

4. Recommendations from WS 1
What? (Recommendations)
Who?
When?
National strategy and standards for the CPD of principals (8 WGs!)
CPD based on principals’ needs
Establishment of Centers of Excellence
Academic degrees (graduate and post-graduate studies)
Accreditation of programs/providers
Individual counseling
Quality of trainers
MoSES
Agencies (MoSES)
Agencies, MoSES, school founders
MoSES, universities
Agencies, …
Agencies
Agencies (MOSES, school founders)
1-2 y
3 m – 1 y
1 y
1 – 3 y

5. A side issue? What role for Quality Assurance?
External and internal evaluation : schools (MoSES, Agencies) – Quality Assurance in Schools of crucial importance
Monitoring of acquired competences (MoSES, Agencies, Founders…) – No steering of activities without quality control
Exchange of Experience with colleagues – How to institutionalize this?

6. Recommendations from WS 2: Initial Training for Principals and CPD (I)
License for principals: new vs. existing principals
MoSES framework?
Need for initial training of principals
Decision on (number of) credits: license vs. post-graduate degree
Modules
Variety of trainings (‘market’)
Obligatory parts vs. ‘add-ons’
Mentor for beginners but self-driven and responsible beginners

7. Recommendations from WS 2: Initial Training for Principals and CPD (II)
Key trainings:
Strategic planning and decision making
Organizational models
Human Resource Management
Social skills
IT, Communication/Public Relations, Quality Assurance (Evaluation, Data…), Financial planning, Stress and time management…
Flexibility through modularized approach
Appointment: Vs. political appointees, 10 years of experience?, University degree
‘Primus inter pares’ (best teacher) vs. ‘specific (principals) talents’
Training and re-training; licensing and re-licensing?