Training the Trainer Course on Capacity Building in Leadership and Management for the 21st Century Educational Administrators

29/01/2018

SEAMEO RETRAC is committed to improving the leadership capacity of educational managers throughout Southeast Asia and Lao PDR is a priority area for capacity building. SEAMEO RETRAC conducts annual in-country training the trainer courses in Lao PDR to build-up Laotian master trainers’ own capacity to train educational leaders.

On 5^th-8^th of December, 2017, SEAMEO RETRAC in cooperation with the Institute forAdministration Development (IFEAD) of the Lao Ministry of Education and Sports conducted an in-country training the trainer course in Leadership and Management for the 21^st Century Educational Administrators in Lao PDR’s capital city, Vientiane.

SEAMEO RETRAC’s educational trainers focused on providing and updating the knowledge, skills, and practices crucial to improving educational trainers’ capacities in Innovative Instructional Leadership, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Effective Presentations, and Creative and Critical Thinking. 31 managers and lecturers from IFEAD and various educational institutions across Lao PDR attended the training with the intention of building their own capacity to inspire and prepare national trainers to advance Lao PDR’s ever-increasing capacities in educational leadership and management in the 21^st century.