Organization and Leadership in Educational Projects

Objectives and Structure

Objectives of the Organization

Objectives of the organization: Means by which its activity in the organization becomes a single set that seeks the satisfaction of personal needs.

Organizational Structure

Organizational structure: Distribution and management of all the elements that make up a reality.

Vertical Organization

Vertical organization: The distribution of levels of authority and responsibility; define and brand the organization functions according to established law and the specificity of the institution.

Horizontal Organization

Horizontal organization: It raises the organizational aspects involved in planning and program development.

Staff Organization

Staff organization: Structure and advisory aids that allow logistics support base decisions on learning or management.

Relational System

Relational system: Includes a diverse group of people and interest in people. It raises issues such as communication, participation, decision-making, etc.

Educational Projects and Planning

Address

Address: Agent of change and innovation that enhances the quality of the intervention.

Education Project

Education project: A performance-based organization, from the resources available to intervene in an educational reality to achieve an improvement in the conditions of that reality.

Regulation of Internal or Regulatory Regime

Regulation of internal or regulatory regime: Regulates the regime of an institution by establishing rules, requirements, and instructions through which the coexistence of collective orders.

Plan or Annual Program

Plan or annual program: Organizational planning an institution makes for a specified period, usually one year. Seeks to develop institutional approaches aspects of the medium-long term, while serving the needs of the organization implied.

Project

Project: More operational work unit within the planning process and is the final link in this type of process. Planned unit consisting of a set of interrelated activities and coordinated with each other to reach goals within a budget and a specified period.

Programs of Action

Programs of action: Each of the areas of employment or stable thematic lines used to achieve the processes and changes needed to achieve the objectives that shape the specialty of the project. For some authors are equivalent to the programming of educational activities.

Lesson Plans

Lesson plans: Thematic line that makes sense by itself and as an operational element of the intervention, reflecting the methodological design of educational work and the relationship established between the objectives, the basic contents for the treatment of the problems facing dealing and activities in the concrete.

Activity

Activity: Basic unit of work, describes specific actions to be carried out to generate a change in the learner.

Resources and Management

Quote

Quote: Regular forecasting of revenue and expenses generated by a particular activity.

Report

Report: A document in which all the actions taken and proposals for an organization are reflected.

Human Resources

Human resources: Professionals and volunteers who are part of an organization.

Resource Materials

Resource materials: External bounding elements (building and location) and internal elements (equipment and materials).

Functional Resources

Functional resources: Refer to the organization comes the structure.

Organizational Culture and Climate

Climate

Climate: Environment to be perceived as a result of the interaction of the various organizational components.

Culture

Culture: Values and meanings shared by members of a given organization.

Theories, Models, and Effectiveness

Theory

Theory: Cluster hypothesis, categories, and concepts used to observe, understand and change reality.

Model

Model: Explanatory representation seeks to reformulate a phenomenon or a particular aspect of the organization.

Effectiveness

Effectiveness: Ability to achieve the desired effect or are expected.

Efficiency

Efficiency: The ability to have someone or something to get a particular effect.

Organizational Concepts

Cultural Myths

Cultural myths: Stereotypes and fantasies they have about the cultural reality but that does not conform to it.

Interest Groups

Interest groups: People who come together around a common interest or goal.

Flowchart

Flowchart: Scheme in which the organization is based entity.

Organization in Clover

Organization in clover: Is based on the three clover “holjas” and try to add a fourth. The organization’s objective was to streamline the structure to achieve improvements in the organization, seek flexibility in work, collaborate with other institutions, and promote the participation of own users.

Network Organization

Network organization: A combination of different types of organizational structures to coordinate activities from a process of division of labor.

Leadership Styles

Influence

Influence: Power, authority of someone with other people.

Transformational Leadership

Transformational leadership: Focuses on individuals and interactions and requires intervention to transform feelings, attitudes, and beliefs.

Pedagogical or Instructional Leadership

Pedagogical or instructional leadership: It directs its action to the behaviors of teachers and students in teaching and learning activities.

Distributed Leadership

Distributed leadership: Commitment is based on a mutually beneficial exchange of value.

Architectural Layout and Technology

Adaptability and Flexibility of Architectural Layout

Adaptability and flexibility of architectural layout: Adaptability is the ownership of a building to accommodate changes in their structures. And the flexibility refers to the qualities of a structure that allows the variation of services and agencies.

Structural Equipment

Structural equipment: Fixed material space, for example, walls, cupboards, etc.

Material

Material: Tools used to develop a learning process.

Technophobia

Technophobia: Technology phobia.

Technocentrism

Technocentrism: Focus excessive attention to consider technologies for the solution of certain scenarios.

Indifference to Technology

Indifference to technology: Technology is not perceived as a central focus that crosses the actions and the life of an organization.

Decision-Making and Meetings

Decision-Making

Decision-making: Process leading to consciously choose a course of action among several possibilities to achieve a goal.

Agenda

Agenda: Relationship issues that are to be treated or on which they make decisions.

Meeting

Meeting: A procedure that enables the exchange of ideas, thoughts, attitudes, or feelings of their constituents.