Pedagogical leadership: from supervising to supporting teachers

Abstract

Currently, Chilean educational policy presents the need for school leaders to carry out processes to accompany teachers from a pedagogical leadership perspective, to strengthen teaching practices and student learning. For this reason, this research aims to characterize the teaching accompaniment carried out by directors of public secondary education schools in Valparaíso. To achieve this objective, a qualitative study was developed, with the application of semi-structured interviews to six directors and six teachers from three schools. The information collected was processed through a deductive content analysis. The main findings allowed to observe that there is a fluctuating presence and discrepancy between teachers and directors on the models of teacher accompaniment. While directors declare to apply both collaborative and interventionist models, teachers indicate that the latter is the most frequently applied, wherein the directors provide guidelines and unidirectional resolutive aspects. This fluctuating presence of teaching support categories of the three models: interventionist, collaborative and facilitator, demonstrates the process of transition experienced by the schools, from supervision to teacher support.