Christchurch, New Zealand October 2008

Dr Cheryl Doig

You’re a Leader - LEAD!!

Collaboration

a powerful opportunity to grow together…

Our time together…

• Introduction - drawing on your own experiences

• Am I, as a leader, a positive role model of the key competencies?

• What feedback do I seek about my own performance (and how)?

• How am I helping others to examine their own practice? Relating to othersAm I pushing my own learning forward or am I stuck in today’s world? The future

You’re a leader???

What percentage of these are good?

If x% of these schools are good…

…what percentage would you say are great?

•Parliamentarians•Early childhood centres•Schools•Teachers’ Colleges

20 40 60 80 100

Where do you want your school to be?

Mediocre? Good? Great?

Am I, as a leader, a positive role model

of the key competencies?

NZ CurriculumFuture Focus• Sustainability• Citizenship• Enterprise• Globalisation (div)

• Creating a supportive learning environment• Encouraging reflective thought and action• Enhancing the relevance of new learning• Facilitating shared learning• Making connections to prior learning &

experience• Providing sufficient opportunities to learn• Teaching as inquiry

Adapted from NZ Curriculum p 34-5

Effective AndragogyLeader actions prompting teacher learning

Managing Self

A short interlude…

Let’s get on with it…

• Participatory culture - all can contribute - knowledge is created not possessed eg creative commons

• Feedback

• Challenge

• Deep conversations

Managing Self

• Competency description - adapted from the NZ Curriculum

• Professional Teachers - what teachers should model and teach based on the competency

• Professional learning communities - as a leader what are you doing to build this capacity in those you lead? And you DO lead and impact on others…

• To continue the discussion go to Google docshttp://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dwqrjq7_85d6rmspgj

Feedback on my own performance

The Johari Window

Open AreaKnown by Others

Unknown by Others

Unknown by Self

Known by Self

Ask/Inquire

Blind Area

Hidden Area

Unknown Area

Feedback

Shared discovery

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The Johari Window

Open AreaKnown by Others

Unknown by Others

Unknown by Self

Known by Self

Ask/Inquire

Blind Area

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Feedback

Shared discovery

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Your views on what helps you learn

• What are the things you like most about learning at this school?

• What could be made better about learning at this school?

• Is there anything else you would like to say about this school or your learning?

Boyd & Watson (2006).Shifting the Frame. NZCER.

At school, what are the three things that most help you learn?

How does each thing help you learn?

Helping others examine their

own practice…

If only THEY would change…

Teaching & Leading 3.0

• Involves a team working together publically. • Has a challenging focus on improved student

learning. • Builds collective intelligence - teachers to learn

from and coach each other as they use their professional judgment to meet individual student needs.

• Technology, especially web 2.0+ tools used to share, assess and personalise student learning.

• Draws on content, expertise, and resources from many sources to meet student needs and to support their own professional growth.

Schools as Learning Organisations

NZCER Feedback

•Teachers behave how they would like us to behave

•Students and teachers respect and help each other •Students respect and help each other•I am given time to talk about my views with other students •I learn ways to manage discussions when we work together •I have a turn leading groups or class activities

Sally Boyd and Verena Watson 2007

Relating To Others

Relating to Others

http://thinkbeyondltd.blogspot.com/

Teacher Dependency

• Understand the strengths, development needs and stories of your team

• Delegate accordingly• Develop the power of listening - the power of

language - dialogue and discussion • Build their capacity for decision making and

responsibility - resiliency• Understand the power of conflict and eustress

"Life is a path you beat while you walk it"

What did you steal from your learners today?

(from Dr John Edwards)

Discussion ScenarioIf only they would change…

One of your team agrees with a group decisionto spend money on a new learning programme.

Later you overhear her saying: “ I think its an absolute waste of money. There

are better things available…”

How would you deal with this?

Leading for the future

Which

way

is up?

The Horizon Report 2008• Mobiles will be mainstream education

• Collaboration webs

• Instruction in information, visual and technological literacy

• Data Mashups

• Collective intelligence eg wikipedia

• Social operating systems

www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf

•web 3.0 will be about feeding you the information that you want, when you want it (in the proper context).

•adding context to personalisation…social…collective

Web 3.0

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Dynamical Systems

Feedback

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Holonomy

• The study of wholes and parts

• Part of a bigger system yet entire systems in themselves

• There will always be tension between the two, for example, independence & interdependence

• And - both

From Bob Garmston

The Adaptive School - revised edition due out 2008

Dynamical systems

• More data does not mean that predictions will be any better

• Everything influences everything else

• Tiny events can create major disturbances

• You don’t have to touch everyone to make a difference

From Bob Garmston

Practical strategies• Whole Brain Thinking (Herrmann)

• The Johari Window

• Surfacing assumptions

• Managing Self Key Competency

• Relating to others questionnaire

Which might you use?

What is one area you will lead yourself forward in?

Change your thinking…

Teacher, come on outside! I’ll race you to the see-saw!

No, you won’t fall off!I’ll show you how!

Don’t be afraid teacher.Grab my hand and follow me.You can learn all over again!

Callum, The geranium in the window sill just died, but teacher you went right on.

References

• EnGAUGE 21st Century Skills• Cisco Education 3.0• http://21stcenturylearning.wetpaint

.com/page/Learn+More...

• Kiwi leadership for Principals• The New Zealand Curriculum• www.plotpd.com• www.thinkbeyond.co.nz

Recommended support

www.thinkbeyond.co.nz

www.plotpd.comThe Art of Facilitation programme

Contact info@engaginglearners.co.nzMel Stopford Consultancy

http://www.core-ed.net/http://edtalks.org/

Interpersonal Relationships• build trusting relationships through active listening,

caring for others, and demonstrating personal integrity;

• actively lead and participate in professional learning with staff;

• manage the delicate balance between supporting and challenging others;

• encourage and participate in professional conversations that help teachers to share expertise and strategies that improve student learning;

• manage dilemmas when the needs of the students and those of other members of the school community are in conflict;

• encourage giving feedback to teachers through regular and documented classroom observations.

Kiwi leadership for Principals

The Global Foresight Network

http://www.globalforesight.net/Category?Action=View&Category_id=32

Kiwi Leadership of Competencies

RelationshipsTeaming, Collaboration,and Interpersonal Skills

Diversity management

Social networking

Participating & ContributingMulticultural Literacy and Global Awareness and responsibilities

ThinkingManagingComplexity

Creativity, and Risk Taking

Critical thinking

CommunicatingEffective Communication Digital-Age Literacy

Managing Self

Understanding of selfResiliencyFlexibility

FeedbackEnabled by technology

Challenge

What will you focus on in your

own leadership

development?