“Innovation is not a fad or a marketing strategy; it is a tool to improve the outcomes in educational management”

Enter Text HereThis the opinion of Miguel Escala, Rector of the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC).

According to Miguel Escala, Rector of the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC), it is urgent for national educational agencies to innovate in their administrative and management strategies, and in that sense, the sector managers should take into account student learning, offer solutions to their problems, and promote internal
transparency.

The academic defined the term innovation as the introduction of a new or improved product, process or organizational method, which takes place within the internal practices of companies and work places. He further stated that the word innovation is neither a fad nor part of a marketing strategy; rather, it is needed to improve teaching.

Escala said that there are three essential elements to optimize the results of educational institutions:
that new management strategies respond to contextualized principles; the adoption of a theory or a standard to enrich their conceptual framework; and that institutions always question the adopted framework or model.

During the lecture he offered on "Innovation in the management of educational institutions," the academic pointed out that the greatest weakness of national teachers is not having ideas to support the efforts and projects for change. He
stated that being a teacher does not mean to follow a fixed schedule, to teach a class and then leave; rather, it means to spend time with the students.

Escala said that innovators must be wise and justify that the changes in the system are valid so that they stay on the good side of the establishment. He argued that changes in education can take shape in participatory planning, in computer software, in a meeting with the students, and even in the director’s
blog.