DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOLS IN TANZANIA AND AFRICA

PRESENT

1. Leadership Training for Heads of Adventist Primary School 11 September to 27 November 2024 South Tanzania Union Mission

2. Dr . Devotha Shimbe , Director of Education and Religious Liberty, South Tanzania Union Mission. Dr. Baraka Manjale Ngussa , Directoor of Human Resources and Administration, University of Arusha, Tanzania. Trainers: 02

3. Nine Heads of Adventist Primary Schools in South Tanzania Union Mission   Target Group 03

4. The training engaged the heads of schools from Southern Tanzania Union Mission. It took place for ten weeks, whereby in each week, there was one-hour training session. In it, presentations covered 40 minutes and 20 minutes were for reflection, discussions and questions. In each week, the group members had to spend two additional hours for further reflection and practical training through reading and sharing new insights. The training schedule appears in Table 1: Integration of five aspects in the training sessions 04

5. 05 SN DATE TOPIC CONCEPT PRESENTER 1 11/09/2024 ORIENTATION/ OVERVIEW Introduction Dr. Devotha/ Dr. Baraka 2 18/09/2024 Putting Others First Christ-like Servant Leadership SL Dr. Devotha Shimbe 3 25/09/2024 Empowering followers SL Dr. Baraka M. Ngussa 4 02/10/2024 Self-awareness and Self-management EI Dr. Devotha Shimbe 5 09/10/2024 Enabling followers to grow and succeed SL Dr. Baraka M. Ngussa 6 16/10/2024 Social Awareness EI Dr. Devotha Shimbe 7 23/10/2024 Behaving ethically as a leader SL Dr. Baraka M. Ngussa 8 30/10/2024 Relationship Management EI Dr. Devotha Shimbe 9 06/11/2024 Creating value to community (Social Responsibility) SL Prof. Josephine Ganu 10 13/11/2024 Conceptual skills Crosscutting Dr. Devotha Shimbe 11 20/11/2024 Emotional healing Crosscutting Dr. Devotha Shimbe 12 27/11/2024 WRAPUP SESSION Conclusion Dr. Devotha / Dr. Baraka Table 1: Distribution of Topics/ Themes SL=Servant Leadership; EI=Emotional Intelligence  

6. Components for leader growth series appear in the presentations, which covered practical issues related to Servant Leadership (SL) and Emotional Intelligence (EI) in local settings. Growth series components in the training was as follows: Leader Growth Series 06   1. CONNECTION : We ensured anonymity and confidentiality of intricate information shared by the group members during the training sessions. This created a sense of honest and sincerity throughout the discussion and members felt protected. The training series accomplished the connection aspect of leadership growth series by having the heads of schools who attended the workshop acquainted with one another. Since the nine schools are located in various fields/ conferences, some of the delegates had never met before. The training connected them and created a long lasting bond.

7. 07 2. KNOWLEDGE New insights gained indicates cognitive achievement of the delegates. At the end of each training session, some of the group members confessed to have gained useful information that will enhance their leadership practices. The training provided useful information that addressed local settings of the school leaders.  

8. 08   3. REFLECTION We achieved the reflection aspect by giving opportunity for each of the group members to meditate and share newly gained experiences with the rest of the team members before and after each session . At the end of each presentation, we provided a few minutes for each of the group members to think deeply about what we presented, just before the post presentation discussions began.

9. 09 4. PRACTICE We achieved the practice aspect by assigning group members post session tasks. For instance, each of the members had to read various characters from the Bible and share experiences . Group members were not spoon-fed. The training required their full participation in knowledge construction and after each session, they received assignments to search and share practical examples of servant leadership and emotional intelligence from the Bible . Group members participated in filling questionnaires, whose insights will provide research based insights to benefit the rest of leaders within similar organizations.

10. 10 5. TRUTH We emphasized sincerity by requiring group members to share local setting-true experiences for the rest of the group members to gain new insights The newly gained insights sought to benefit the followers in the schools by having the school leaders exercise leadership that demonstrates love, care and compassion to the followers.

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12. 12 IMPACT OF THE TRAINING The impact of the training can be seen in the questionnaire results, filled by participants before and after the training. As it appears in Table 1, in each of the seven categories of Servant leadership, for instance, the mean score for the posttest was greater than the mean score for the pretest. In all cases, the p-value was below 0.05, meaning the pretest and posttest findings are significantly difference. Therefore, the training improved the servant leadership qualities of the participants.

13.   TEST Mean p-value Std. Dev. Creating Value Pretest 6.1250   .40448 Posttest 6.6548 .001 45741 Emotional Healing Pretest 5.4954   .53357 Posttest 6.5119 .000 .47747 Conceptual Skills Pretest 5.5602   .64284 Posttest 6.7619 .000 .30079 Empowering Pretest 5.9028   .54327 Posttest 6.5000 .001 .48734 Helping subordinates grow and succeed Pretest 5.4444   .55938 Posttest 6.5595 .000 .46707 Putting subordinates first Pretest 5.2546   .61269 Posttest 6.3571 .000 .39978 Behaving Ethically Pretest 5.9444   .99836 Posttest 6.5992 .016 .40536 Table 2: The Impact of the Training 13