РОЛЬ РУКОВОДИТЕЛЕЙ ФАКУЛЬТЕТОВ В ПОДДЕРЖКЕ ПРЕПОДАВАТЕЛЕЙ В РАМКАХ ПРОГРАММЫ ПОЛИЯЗЫЧНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ

Аннотация

One of the most significant issues in implementing an innovation or a new education policy in practice is the role of teachers and as well as educational leaders who are to support teaching staff in a related domain. Kazakhstan, as a nation experiencing and witnessing the integration of multilingual education in the context of higher education institutions encounters fundamental challenges especially in terms of supporting academic staff and their professional development. This study aims at identifying and exploring how faculty leaders support teaching staff in the process of implementing an educational reform and what kind of learning activities they provide teachers with for boosting their professional development as well as to fill the gap in the preparation for multilingual education program. Qualitative method is utilized for investigating this study in order to acquire deep qualitative data collection. For the sample size, (n=6) interviews with six faculty leaders were conducted and analysed by Atlas.ti software. The main findings of this study are that educational leaders provide teachers with the foreign language courses as well as organizing different educational events and meetings for discussing crucial issues. The academic staff engaged in multilingual education program receive some financial support which is accomplished in different ways.