School Leadership Improvement Design: How to Promote Communicative Interaction Between Teachers and Students in the Classroom?

Authors

  • Guillermo Ignacio Flores Utreas Universidad Alberto Hurtado
  • Nancy María Molina Ruiz Universidad Alberto Hurtado
  • Andrea Eliana Horn Kupfer Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez

Abstract

Communicative interaction is a concept rarely addressed in the school environment from the role of its managers, since, in general, it is considered only from the teacher-student relationship in the classroom. In Chile, studies on the subject show that teachers do not include communicative interaction in the design of their classes, which has the consequence that students in the classroom have very little initiative and verbal activity. This article exposes an action-research experience that took place in a municipal school in the Metropolitan Region, in which the Problem-Solving approach for Continuous Improvement was used, with the purpose of addressing the problems of communicative interaction that had teachers with their 7th and 8th grade students. The research included identifying a problem at the school level, its understanding, and the design of a feasible and viable improvement proposal to carry out in the studied educational establishment, which opens the possibility that the approach and associated methodology may be used in other establishments.

Keywords:

communicative interaction, directive leadership, , practice problem, problem solving for continuous improvement, improvement plan.