School leadership workshop for high school students

Abstract

In the current context, the demand for leaders capable of guiding communities towards improvement and the achievement of shared objectives is increasingly evident. Therefore, the objective of the article is to present the results obtained in a school leadership workshop with high school students from a district of Lima, Peru. An applied quantitative approach was adopted, with an explanatory and quasi-experimental research design, with an experimental group and a control group. Likewise, the instrument was a questionnaire validated by experts and subjected to Cronbach's alpha test. Data collection was carried out through a sample of high school students belonging to an educational institution located in a district of Lima. The results of the study showed that, after applying the educational workshop, there were positive changes in the development of school leadership in the experimental group, unlike the control group that did not show variations. Specifically, an improvement was observed in the dimensions of charisma, individualized consideration and contingent reward. Likewise, the percentage of low levels in these dimensions decreased and the percentage of medium and high levels increased. These results allowed us to conclude that the educational workshop “A challenge for you” had a significant impact on the development of school leadership in high school students in a district of Lima, Peru, since the holistic training approach used during the intervention allowed for changes that were reflected in a greater strengthening of school leadership in the participants.