Learning to learn competence for principals in comprehensive schools: expectations and reality

Straipsnyje nagrinėjamas bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų vadovų požiūris į mokėjimo mokytis kompetenciją. Gvildenamas vadovų požiūris į mokėjimo mokytis kompetencijos veiksniusNowadays the demands of the managerial competence for school principais are rather high. This requires constant studying and improvement. But it is also necessary to know how to study. Competence of learning to learn describes the ability to organize oneself learning, evaluate your own professional activity, to learn permanently and create school as a learning organization. While making a research of learning to learn competence for principais in comprehensive schools, it became noticeable, that the most difficult for directors is to evaluate their own professional practice strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, foreseeing trends of professional improvement. 9 % of respondents evaluate themselves as weak, while 1 % of respondents evaluate themselves perfect. Othervvise principles succeed in organizing their own studying and permanent learning in order to achieve career and unity of life. Competence to organize their own studying is evaluated perfect by 10.8 % of respondents and competence of permanent learning respectively 11.8 %. The other noticeable fact is that the most effective wray to improve competencies is practical work. 74 % of respondents answered to this ąuestion namely like this. Only 19 % stated that discussion is effective way to improve, while lectures - only 7 %. It is necessary to say that discussions should not be underestimated as during discussions new ideas and experience ariseVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij