The direction of substantive processes: challenges for the director in Basic Secondary Education

The competence of the directors of the Basic Secondary School in institutional projects led to the analysis of educational problems and generated responses in light of the transformations in the Third Improvement of the National Education System and of pedagogical and curricular innovation, to guarantee educational quality. The objective was directed to socialize a research about the preparation of the director in the Basic Secondary School in the technical-professional content, to lead the substantive processes, with a theoretical and practical professional mastery. A methodology was applied to contribute to the improvement of educational management, with didactic-methodological procedures that facilitated the mastery of the contents of this competence for its practical application. Methods of the following levels were used: theoretical, empirical and statistical-mathematical. The main results were in the contribution to the theory, which integrated a system of knowledge, skills and capacities of the competence in management, applied to the substantive process of educational management, for the development of institutional projects at the educational level; and in practice, in the methodological procedures for participative management, socialized in pedagogical practice. The concepts of competence in management and participative management were specified and contextualized; the characterization of the educational management process and the elaboration of requirements and features that typify the proposed methodology. In conclusion, the need for the formation of work competencies in managers of strategic sectors for efficient local development is confirmed.