In my work, I am working in a range of schools, working with Principals, e-leaders and staff. The learning programme I plan and deliver is based on information obtained from initial conversations with the Principal, targets and goals from the annual plan/charter and also based on moving the school forward. Leading change within the school is how we will make a difference for learners.
I work with schools to co-construct the development plan, a road map for how we will work together through the year.
No one school is the same although there may be similar themes which has allowed me to plan and deliver workshops to e-leaders from different schools. In 2015, schools in Southland were in informal clusters, in 2016 the work is in individual schools but there is still the opportunity for e-leaders to share their practice. A good example is where three teachers from three different schools worked together to develop a a class blog for their Yr5/6 classes. This is the blog post from the Connected Educators Blog.
Three concepts have impacted on my thinking in planning and implementing development plans/workshops for schools I am working with.
The first is UDL or Universal design for Learning. I have talked about the impact of this concept in this blogpost. This has caused me to plan in a different way for workshops and to find out about my learners before they come to the workshops.
The Spirals of Inquiry Process adapted by Kaiser,Halbert and Timperly has also influenced how I talk about inquiry with teachers. This is a robust model and leads teachers to look at their learners and data in a deeper way. example of a workshop
The last ideas are from the OECD report - The Nature of Learning which talks about the Learner at the Centre. Again this has influenced how I think about leading change and making a difference for learners in our schools. Students in classes today are not the same as they were 20yrs ago
Teaching and Learning is changing.and learners need to have more choice, more voice and more self -direction in their classrooms. I see my job as leading, encouraging, coaching and informing
teachers to change.
Link to Tātaiako ; akoThe last ideas are from the OECD report - The Nature of Learning which talks about the Learner at the Centre. Again this has influenced how I think about leading change and making a difference for learners in our schools. Students in classes today are not the same as they were 20yrs ago
Teaching and Learning is changing.and learners need to have more choice, more voice and more self -direction in their classrooms. I see my job as leading, encouraging, coaching and informing
teachers to change.
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