Strengthening of Leadership Skills in dealing with current developments

Topic(s) addressed

• Strengthening the competencies in digitalisation

• Promoting participation and inclusion 

Target groups

• 23 people (age 25-60)

• management and pedagogical staff in daycare centers 

• IFP staff

Methodologies

• The joint learning on several levels with the existing network of daycare centres at its core

• Workshops with the involvement of the participants (main topic, system, country and people, profiles) 

• Using previous knowledge as a base and developing guiding questions 

• Using digital learning diaries for logging goals, expectations, learning progress and personal reflections. 

• Collective discussions on site

• The evaluation in workshops focused on reflection and transfer. 

• Creating a set of slides serving as documentation 

Environments

• Regular and obligatory workshops of the network support the targeted preparation and follow-up.

• Planned and informal intensive exchange in the group on site

• The participants brought their experiences to the team.

• The participating institutions had experience with job shadowing. 

• Encouraging the participants to carry out English-language job shadowing and taking on trainees. 

Teachers

• The teachers had already had experience dealing with the topics related to working with the network.

• The participants contributed to a far-reaching experience and dissemination of the results.

• They pursued their personal goal of further training and learning together.

• They played a key role as managers in quality development and discussing the results. 

Impact

• The experiences disseminated within the IFP through presentations and articles in the annual journal- received by all Bavarian daycare centres- will impact the planning of further projects.

• Acquisition of robots and the spatial redesign in the Kitas

• Examples generated by the project changed the attitude toward certain topics.

• Increasing the understanding of other cultures and daycare systems in Europe