Support of schools and professional development of teachers: key processes for effective leadership to improve schools (original) (raw)

In all the countries, the modernization of education processes as well as of educational reform under way are based on the concern about the poor results in learning and in the poor quality of education. In order to solve these problems, in the last decades professional development policies have been launched and, more recently, also the modernization of processes and roles of school supervision. The cases described allow us to conjecture that a systemic view is already installed in the region since the goals of the reform are not only to change supervision or to improve the professional development of teachers, but also to pursue a process of improvement of the educational service provision, which implies a political strategy that includes a comprehensive reform.