Practices

European Leaders' Training in Education (ELTE)
Comenius Multilateral Project
Thematic Field: Teaching professions
Institutions involved:
Hogeschool Van Arnhem En Nijmegen (NL); Akdeniz Üniversitesi Egitim Fakültesi (TR);
Umeå Universitet (SE); Latvijas Universitate (LV); Pedagogiko Institouto Kiprou (CY)
Coordinating institution:
University of Education in Upper Austria (Austria)
Key words: School leadership
Description:
The most important outcome and the core of the ELTE programme is the 30
European credits' training programme for leading personnel which was produced
as a handbook.
Another result is the implementation of the ELTE curriculum. In Linz, Austria the
whole ELTE curriculum will be implemented in a Master's Programme starting in the
summer semester 2011 which is called “Educational Management and School
Development” (in German “Bildungsmanagement und Schulentwicklung”).
This was possible after introducing and discussing the ELTE handbook with the rector
and vice rectors of the University of Education in Upper Austria and after approval by
the study commission. In Riga, Latvia the ELTE curriculum will also be implemented in
a similar Master's Programme dealing with educational leadership. In Umeå,
Sweden, parts of the ELTE curriculum are already implemented in principals' in-service
activities. In Antalya, Turkey, there are considerations and good chances to implement
the ELTE curriculum in an existing doctoral study programme in the area of
educational management. In the Netherlands it is up to the community and the
schools to offer principals' training courses.
According to the consortium the added value of the whole partnership can be seen in
the process of learning from each other. All institutions are experts in the area of
principals' training. All countries have different systems of training and partners found
it interesting to realise the different approaches of the methodology used in the
modules.
Duration:
2008-2010
Webpage:
http://www.swap.ac.uk/projects/a-z/0607/elte.html
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/projects/public_parts/documents/comenius/com_mp_14
1867_elte.pdf
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