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Instructional Leadership: Chalking up significant difference in raising students' academic performance

The two-week course on "Instructional Leadership: Chalking Up Significant Difference in Raising Students' Academic Performance" held from June 30 - July 13, 2005 was a program under the SEAMEO Educational Development Fund (SEDF), funded by the Philippine Government as part of its international commitment as a member of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO).

The course aimed to strengthen the instructional leadership skills of selected school heads from SEAMEO member countries and contribute to the application and dissemination of effective instructional leadership practices in primary schools so that principals may be able to provide more effective instructional supervision, as well as exert positive influence over their teachers towards better students' academic performance.

The course made use of the identified critical competencies in the area of "Leading Instructional and Curricular Processes" under the Competency Framework for Southeast Asian School Heads, developed for SEAMEO INNOTECH's LEARNTECH eXCELS Project.

The participants were 23 educators, mostly elementary school heads from the ten member countries of SEAMEO, with five of them coming from Brunei Darussalam, and two each from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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