2011年12月19日，澳門區舉行了半天的慈幼會屬校中層管理人員研討會。主題是中層管理人員如何以鮑思高預防教育法作領導，全校性參與，配合學校發展。超過50位老師參與，並表示是次研討會對他們的領導工作有啟法作用。退休校長陳德恆先生和會長林仲偉神父擔任是次研討會的講者。

林神父簡要提出四個預防教育法核心價值，作為學校中層管理人員在全校性參與的帶領上，必須遵行的原則。第一是內化。作為教育者，如果預防教育法的價值沒有得到個人的認識及認同，是不能真正發揮作用。第二是預防。預防並不是指強制性的那一種，而是心靈的預防。只有真正在青少年心中種下正面的種子，以鼓勵、支持和陪伴、去灌溉，才能預防他們學壞。第三是家庭精神。建立家庭氣氛，就是縱然當中有不同的意見，重要的時候仍能彼此互相鼓勵。第四、也是最重要的核心價值 — 宗教。宗教是鮑思高神父堅持辦教育的力量，也是人完全發展最重要的原素。

陳校長以自身甘苦的經驗，為中層管理人員重新定義，什麼才是真正教育工作上的中層管理。首先是不可把工商管理與工業生產力套用在教育工作上，因為教育是心的事工，不可以量化。對於自身學校及崗位上的危機，必須時常保持警覺，當局面發展到不能挽回才補救，往往已經太遲。作為中層管理人員必須有一份自省，檢查現時的工作是否有效。陳校長很喜歡「專業退修」一詞，因為充分表達了退下來，視野才會變得更廣闊，從而檢視工作及外在大環境的因素和影響。

研討會大部份參加者對自己的崗位和職份有了更清晰的理解，從而調節以配合學校發展。

Macau Schools Middle management workshop

19 December 2011 - A half-day workshop for the school middle management was held in Macau. The topic was how school middle management can use Preventive System to achieve leadership and whole school approach for school development. More than 50 teachers joined the meeting. Most of them opined that this seminar was beneficial to the management of the school. Mr. Chan Tak Hang, retired school principal and Fr. Simon Lam, Provincial of China Province were the speakers for the occasion.  

Fr. Lam highlighted four core values of the Preventive System as the principle for school middle management. The first is internalization. For educators, if the values of Preventive System are not being recognized and internalized, they will not be effective. The second is prevention. Prevention does not refer to prohibition but the spirit of prevention. Only planting positive seeds into the hearts of the young, irrigating them with encouragement, support and companionship, we can get good results. The third is the building of family atmosphere. Building family atmosphere means that even if there are different opinions, we can still support each other at critical moments. The fourth is the most important core value - religion. This is the energy of Don Bosco to continue his education mission. Moreover, this is the most important element to develop the whole person.  

Mr. Chan shared his real-life experience and re-defined middle management in its different educational aspects. Firstly, it is not appropriate to apply industrial management principles to education as this is a matter of the heart which cannot be quantified. When we handle crisis of the school and individual persons, alertness is crucial and preventives measures should be taken before it is too late. Being a middle manager, we should have a sense of self-evaluation so as to assess the effectiveness of our work. Mr. Chan emphasized that he loves the phase “Professional Retreat”. It implies stepping back, broadening the horizon and evaluating the situation, as well as external factors & influences.  

After the seminar, most participants obtained a better picture on how they can re-adjust their position in the school middle management for the benefit of school development.