Management and Faculty: Key Factors for Leadership and Innovation in Times of Pandemic DOI:

Abstract

Innovating as a complex construction process required the fulfillment of some factors to be achieved. The objective was to improve teaching practices adapted to new normality never experienced, actions that were led by the teacher from the virtual medium, also new forms of student learning emerged in digital environments as significant means for the interests of the student at times national and international health crisis; the improvement process implemented also aims to be sustainable over time. It required a management team with aptitudes, attitudes to generate necessary changes leading to improvement actions; it also required committed teachers, capable of adapting to immediate change by assuming new forms of virtual teaching, and used each teacher's own expertise to join forces with through collaborative work between all educational actors. Distributed the means to combine directive management with teaching commitment leadership, whose determination will responsibly assume activities from each specific, administrative, pedagogical functions without neglecting the accompaniment, permanent motivation to those who are the innovative process fundamental axis. The objective of this case was to analyze improvement actions carried out from the directive management level, participation of the teaching staff, for which reviewed a specialized bibliography on this; the search mechanism was through repositories of scientific journals.