Leadership in Education

Lately there has been a lot of talk about the professional space of the teacher. But what space are we actually talking about? Paul Schnabel introduced his '4R model' in 2001. The 4 R's stand for Direction, Space, Result and Accountability. We can also apply this 4R model well in education (Schnabel, 2001). Direction : the school management, in consultation with the team and the other stakeholders, indicates the direction by formulating and adopting policy. For example, we are talking about the mission (what we stand for), vision (what we are going for) and the associated organizational goals. The organizational goals are sometimes also described as the 'what'. What must be achieved when? Weggeman (2015) speaks in this context, among other things, about the importance of working from a collective ambition . He indicates that one of the ways to focus more consciously on the intrinsic motivation of employees and the mental models required for this is to ...

  Plan-Do-Trust A collective ambition ensures that employees can experience passion in their work, it inspires and gives meaning and direction. If the collective ambition in an organization is leading for the majority of employees, then according to Weggeman the well-known 'Plan-Do-Check-Action thing' can be thrown out and replaced by Plan-Do-Trust (Weggeman, 2007). By this he means that in the presence of a collective ambition, instead of planning and control, it is possible to work more from a culture of cooperation and trust. With the underlying basis of trust in each other's involvement and professional expertise. Something that is also strongly advocated by authors such as Lieskamp and Vink (Lieskamp & Vink, 2015) and Biesta (Biesta, 2012). Focus on the solution or on the problem? Giving assignments. Swieringa and Jansen (2005) indicate that leaders often tend to focus on the solution (read 'their solution') of a problem or challenge, often unintentionally ...