Reflections On The Developmental Effect Of The Headteacher Workshop

As a new kind of professional development of headteachers, the value of the “Rainbow” headteacher workshop has been more and more apparent. The momentums which highlight the developmental value come from three aspects. The first momentum comes from the international community. The international community has paid more and more attention to headteacher professional development and school education. The second momentum is from the encouragement which the current domestic new curriculum reform has carried out on headteacher professional growth and development. The third momentum comes from the W High School itself who has strong need to grow up. According to the current developmental effect, the “Rainbow” headteacher workshop has experienced much more phases, it is established without nothing, but improves more with efforts,then it becomes better and better,now it fades with time. The author to maximize has recorded the development process truly and objectively by the way of literature, observation, interviews and case studies. What’s more, the paper focuses on the current developmental effects of the “Rainbow” headteacher workshop, that is to say the educational impact. With the reference to the encounter group development theory, the paper has analyzed deeply the current educational influences, and it also introduces the reason why the “Rainbow” headteacher workshop is in the flat state. At last, the paper on the basis of kinds of conditions comes up to some suggestions for the “Rainbow” headteacher workshop to get through the plateau periodThe core part of this paper provides in-depth analysis of the positive side of the development about the “Rainbow” headteacher workshop from five aspects which include the professional development of class teachers, the formation of the campus culture and class culture, the promotion of university researchers’ professional quality, the deepening of the university social service function, and the optimal allocation of regional high quality education resources. At the same time, this paper also adds cases to support these views.After analyzing the positive impact of the “Rainbow” headteacher workshop, the author analyzes the reasons which make people disappointed from four aspects, such as the independent development consciousness of every member, the effect of self-organizing in the “Rainbow” headteacher workshop, the support from the external environment and the U-S challenges of cross-cultural cooperation and so on. The paper ends up with three constructive suggestions which involve establishing a sound system of the activities in the “Rainbow” headteacher workshop, and constructing a set of scientific and reasonable evaluation criteria, and forming the cross-cultural abilityAs the “Rainbow” headteacher workshop is a developmental learning organization, as long as class teachers are in pursuit of professional development, the “Rainbow” headteacher workshop has its existent meaning. Although it is currently in the plateau, this does not mean that it has no vitality and also does not represent that it has no the good momentum of development. The exploration of the “Rainbow” headteacher workshop is still on the way. Its theoretical basis remains to be further enriched and its development experience remains to be further summarized.