Managing the School Team for Psychological and Pedagogical Assistance. Practical implications

Abstract

The aim of the article is to explore issues related to school management on the example of the activities of the School Team for Psychological and Pedagogical Assistance. The subject of the research is the specificity of the management of the Psychological and Pedagogical Assistance Team and the styles of team management which are important from the point of view of the effective implementation of the team’s goals and tasks. This article tries to answer the problem questions: What is the degree of implementation of the goals and tasks of the School Team for Psychological and Pedagogical Assistance? What styles of management of the School Team for Psychological and Pedagogical Assistance do the surveyed teachers prefer? and, in the opinion of the respondents: Do the team management styles determine the effectiveness of the goals and tasks achieved? The monograph method, as a rule, of methodological correctness, does not stop at one research technique, hence the technique of individual, categorized, open interview and analysis of the team’s documentation (team work plan, minutes of team meetings, Individual Educational and Therapeutic Programs, Multidisciplinary Assessment Sheets of the Functioning Level of students, periodic reports).