25 Principals from Belize City Schools received training at a four day workshop called The Principal as an Instructional Leader.
The idea is to get the principal engaged, not just in the administration of the school, but in its day to day operation - and the principal of Ebenezer Primary told us what he learned.
Marvin Kellyman, Principal
"I learnt so many things this week and one mistake you can make as a leader is that if you think you know everything when you fail, then you will definitely fail. So what I learn this week is that there are so many models of being a leader and we need to tap into all of these models to make sure that we do the best job we can as a leader."
Carol Babb
"We've all grown up in Belize where we find that the leader - the principal was almost always present in the office. We are trying
to train principals to become leaders rather than managers. Managers take care of duties like if a window is broken and this and that. We are trying to make sure that our leaders become instructional leaders."
Hon. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education
"This is an instructional leader's workshop and it is saying 'you know what, being the leader of a school requires more than your administrative duties. It requires even more than just your educational duties. It requires you to make decisions utilizing the resources that are around you and it also entails understanding where your teachers are coming from. We are trying to encourage principals to use the kind of strategies in their schools that will see the teachers be a part of the decision making processes and
make sure they feel that they are a part of the whole system."
The training for principals will roll out to the rest of the country and in a new development, the IDB has committed one million US dollars to assist with teacher education.
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