Post by puja on Oct 22, 2023 1:30:29 GMT -6
When talking about the impact of the pandemic on education, the first image that comes to most people's minds is classrooms, with students and teachers. Working behind the scenes, but no less relevant, managers also had to adapt to the new reality of teaching and remote and hybrid work, immersing themselves in learning new processes and innovations that were not previously part of their daily lives. According to professor, consultant and researcher George R.
Stein, the challenge of reconciling management routines, being attentive to the demands of the school community and, at the same time, keeping whatsapp number list in touch with more collaborative ways of teaching and learning has been a great challenge. “By adapting the school’s offering during this time of pandemic, we deal with the challenges of taking care of the health of the school community, of effectively incorporating educational technologies into the learning process and we also seek viable financial and relational support for the school”, he explains.
In addition to thinking about the sustainability and financial health of the school, most of the school manager's challenges relate to dealing with people, whether in person or through digital platforms. After more than a year of social distancing, the routine of meetings, discussions, remote work and longer working hours — shared with self-care and family care — has caused extreme fatigue in most education professionals. “Perhaps the biggest challenge is exhaustion, not only for parents and students, but also for teachers and staff. And the school manager, even more exhausted by the paradigm of speed to handle everything and still respond in an innovative way to changes, finds himself lost in the lack of a support network and also in the lack of care for himself”, says Professor George.
For the school to follow a continuous process of learning and institutional transformation that also provides for the care and development of these managers, it is necessary to use innovation in favor of school management, points out the teacher. “It is crucial that the school manager acts in an innovative way to continue training new generations, taking into account communication skills, empathy, dialogue and collaboration, and enabling the necessary transformations, both at the individual and collective level”, he points out.