Meeting Ten: Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities

Meeting Ten: Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities

Integration Purposes and Possibilities Learning outcomes drive

the selection of technology.

Technology provides added value to teaching and learning.

Technology assists in the assessment of learning outcomes.

– NETS for students– Worldwide study of

innovative pedagogical practices using technology

– US study in 11 exemplary K12 schools

– Examples of added value uses for teaching, learning, and assessment

Implementation Models and Impact Ready access to supported,

managed technology PD is targeted at successful

tech integration Professional community

enhances technology integration and implementation.

– NETS-T

– Technology support components and related impact

– Professional development standards and resources

– Professional community sources and benefits

Leadership Roles and Responsibilities Creating a context

where the ETIPS hold true– Organizational

components (structure, policy, resources)

– NETS-A

– Principal

– Technology Coordinator

– Teacher Leader

Trends in Leadership Studies

1. Formal leaders and their traits2. Then examination of their behaviors3. Recognition of others, and the organization4. And the influence of the context5. Positional leaders’ cognitions6. Focus on organization and its influence on

cognition, but at expense of human agency7. Distributed leadership:concerned with interaction

of leaders’ thinking, behavior, situation

Distributed Leadership

James Spillane, editor of Volume 25, Number 4 of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a special issue on educational leadership

Educational Leadership Research– Leadership for teaching and learning (content area)

– Distributed leadership

– Educational leadership in and across the educational system

Distributions of Leadership

Collaborated– Reciprocal practice

Collective– Independent, yet interdependent, practice

Coordinated– Sequential

Roles and responsibilities

What are the relative technology roles and responsibilities of – Principals– Technology coordinators– Teacher Leaders

Based upon what these leaders do collectively, what is technology leadership?

“Real Schools”

A “grammar” of schooling– Deeply help idea of schools and classrooms

held by educators, parents, and students– The proper way it should be carried out

Second order change would alter some elements and therefore challenge “how it supposed to be”

First and Second Order Change First Order Change

– A more minor change to what is already being done.

– It is easily reversible Second Order Change

– something significantly or fundamentally different from what was done before.

– The process is irreversible: once you begin, it is impossible to return to the way you were doing before.

Cargo Cults

South Pacific: A large ship (or airplane) would deliver the cargo if they properly and ritualistically appeased the gods.– Wooden radios with vines as “cords”– Hack airstrips out of the jungle– Carry bamboo guns and practice drills, etc.

A tragic relationship between the end and the means.