National Aspiring Principals Programme 2012
The focus of the National Aspiring Principals Programme is on developing adaptive, culturally responsive, digitally literate leaders through inquiry learning, and building their understanding of the research base around leadership.
Like NAPP 2011, NAPP 2012 will be run by Te Toi Tupu Leading Learning Network.
Te Toi Tupu is a consortium of providers, contracted by the Ministry of Education, and coordinated by Waikato University. Academic director of the programme is leadership coaching and mentoring expert, Dr Jan Robertson.
Participants will have a rich and engaging year of leadership learning covering:
- A leadership for learning inquiry focused on the leadership of colleagues in raising the achievement of students in the school, with a particular focus on Māori and Pasifika.
- An online reflective blog journal and active participation in the online community throughout the year.
- A National Hui.
- Four online modules of work based on the role of the principal.
- Three personalised inquiry coaching sessions with an experienced facilitator.
- Contributing to a professional learning group located in My Portfolio and three regional meetings.
- Shadowing leaders in another school.
Reading includes: the School Leadership Best Evidence Synthesis, Tū Rangatira, and Kiwi Leadership for Principals.
About the online modules
The four online modules focus on school operating systems in the New Zealand context and show how to link those systems effectively to student achievement.
Using a mix of shared online interaction and individualised self-managed learning, the modules explore: school contexts, resourcing, personnel and employment, and strategies and planning.
They require online interaction with other aspiring principals and are structured to ensure that everyone expands their online skills and their capability in using social media tools to organise their learning.
A wide range of resources will be used, including those on this website.
Aspirants will build their online capacities in: prioritising learning time as and when it is available, following their own defined learning paths, relating learning about school systems to the everyday processes around them.
The modules can be accessed through the Ministry of Education's Virtual Learning Network (VLN).
Expressions of interest are being taken for the 2013 programme. Contact jlunn@waikato.ac.nz
