Week 8

DCL Course Notes Week 8

This week's overarching question

How do we ensure education evolves to reflect the needs of today and tomorrow?

Education in 2025

The Ministry of Education discussion document New Zealand Education in 2025:Lifelong Learners in a Connected World has the following vision: "A highly connected, interdependent education system that equips students with skills for the future, fosters students’ identity, language and  culture, and prepares students to participate as successful citizens in the 21st century."

See: http://www.education.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Mini...

Questions you might consider:

• What does ‘Anton’ tell us about lifelong learning as opposed to school based learning?
• What does ‘Lead with pedagogy, accelerate with technology’ actually mean?
• What (if anything) is missing from the ministry’s vision?

Activity: What's Your School Vision Statement?

Add your own school vision statement to the Padlet page for your location:

• http://tinyurl.com/tmlpadletAKL
• http://tinyurl.com/tmlpadletCHC
• http://tinyurl.com/tmlpadletGIS
• http://tinyurl.com/tmlpadletROT
• http://tinyurl.com/tmlpadletWLG

 What common themes are there?

What distinctive themes are there?

LDC Course Notes Week 8

How might we lead change?

Kotter (1996) suggests that there is an 8 step process for change management:

1. Create a sense of urgency
2. Build a guiding team
3. Develop a vision and strategy
4. Communicate the vision
5. Enable action by removing barriers
6. Celebrate wins
7. Sustain change by building on gains
8. Embed the change in culture

Kotter, J.P. (1996). Leading Change. Boston: Harvard Business School Press

Change Management

Change does not happen in a vacuum. It happens in the context of:

• Multiple stakeholders - Who are they in education?
• Strategies - What is your school’s strategic vision?
• Evidence - How do you find evidence to support and monitor change?

Change Management Toolkit

This week one of our main resources comes from the  New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association / Te Wehengarua (PPTA). Their Education Change Management Toolkit has been developed to assist schools in implementing effective change for improvement, following identified best practices for educational change.

The toolkit contains general principles for implementing successful education change in schools and a series of questions to answer before, during and after a change is trialled and includes a draft policy which branches can discuss with their boards.

See the following web page for more information:

http://ppta.org.nz/resources/publication-list/2460...