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  • ADE Module 7: Working within and for the school system

    This module serves to frame the core purpose of schooling: to provide quality teaching and learning, safely, securely and in accordance with legislation and policy. The module therefore addresses issues related to the Constitution, law, policy, governance, school planning and school development. It examines the role of the principal and SMT in the leadership and management of these issues in... more

  • ADE Module 6: Leading and managing the school as an organisation

    This module helps participants to develop an integrated understanding of the school as an organization, that is to conceptulaise the school as social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals. All organisations have a management structure that determines relationships between the different activities and the members, and subdivides and assigns... more

  • ADE Module 5: Working with and for the wider community

    The purpose of Module 5 is to develop the participants’ knowledge of the social and economic communities within which their schools are located. In South African policy, schools are conceptualised as being centers of the community. It is with this in mind, that Module 5 seeks to promote and establish positive collaborative relationships between schools and the communities in which they are... more

  • ADE Module 4: Leading and managing people and change

    In this module, both theoretical understanding and practical competences in leadership and management are explored and discussed. This knowledge and practices are applied to managing oneself and managing others, both in the school and in the wider school communities. In this module, education is conceptualised as being intrinsically [essentially] about change and that the change process... more