Leadership in immersion

Challenges and possibilities

Keep me away from the wisdom

that does not cry, the philosophy

which does not laugh and

the greatness that does not

bow before children.Kahlil Gibran, Mirrors of the Soul

Simon Laplante

slaplante@srsd.ca

Leadership

Data based decisions

Mental Health

FASD – 4% in Canada

Anxiety

Gender Identity

Self-Harm and Suicide

Violent Behavior

Addiction

Adaptative and Intellectuel Quotient

Equality vs Equity

Language Acquisition

The context in which learning occurs should resemble the context in which the learning will be put to use.

Drawing attention to language, to manipulate language = language activities need to be well planned

Student understand the message without integrating the language.

In the Immersion classroom…who

should be talking ?

Effective assessment

Knowing the learner

Co-plan using student diagnostic data

Making learning goal and success visible

Use continuous informal formative assessment during teaching

Provide students with descriptive feedback

Create opportunities for peer and self assessment

Ensure that summative assessment informs next steps for students and

parents

Create Data Walls for professional conversations

Use collaborative marking of student work as critical data.

Sharratt & Fullan, 2012

Barber et Mourshed (2007): if we truly want to transform our schools,

the focus should not be on changing the system nor spend millions of

dollars, we need to transform instruction

Effective instruction is when…

JOHN HATTIE’S EIGHT MIND FRAMES

Teachers/leaders….. believe that their fundamental task is to evaluate the effect of

their teaching on students’ learning and achievement.

believe that success and failure in student learning are about what they, as teachers or leaders, did or did not do...We are change agents!

want to talk more about the learning than the teaching.

see assessment as feedback about their impact.

engage in dialogue not monologue.

enjoy the challenge and never retreat to “doing their best.”

believe that it is their role to develop positive relationships in classroom/ staffrooms.

inform all about the language of learning

Student Engagement

Social engagement: A sense of belonging and participation in school life

Academic or Institutional engagement: Participation in the formal requirements of schooling

Intellectual engagement: A serious emotional and cognitive investment in learning, using higher order thinking skills (such as analysis and evaluation) to increase understanding, solve complex problems, or construct new knowledge.

La maitresse d’école et ses fourmis – TedTalk

What Did You Do in School Today? Willms, Friesen and Milton (2009) :

5 fondamental questions for leaders to understand for

student engagement (Starrat and Fullan)

When visiting classroom, leaders should ask students the following questions:

What are you learning and why? (Learning objectives)How are you doing? (Success Criteria)How do you know? (Descriptive feedback)How can you improve? (Individual Goal Settings) Where do you go for help? (Peer and Self-Assessment)

Visibility in the classroom must have purpose Visibility can sometime lead to courageous conversations

Do we know the difference between engagement and obedience?

Leadership et Pédagogie

Technology

Technology has dramatically affected

virtually every sector in society that you

can think of except education.

We buy, buy and buy with no impact on

pedagogy and learning.

Stratosphère (Fullan, 2012)

Ressources

ACPI

http://www.acpi.ca/ressources

DELF – Winnipeg

http://delfscolairemb.ca/fr/contactez-nous/

Pourquoi est-il en immersion? versus Quepouvons-nous faire pour le garder en immersion?

Bilingualism

Bilingual Leaders and Educators

Bilingual settings

French resources

Pluri-lingual students