Comenius: Future School Leadership

Creating Change: What change exactly?

Joyce Macfarlane

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Change Models Educational Leaders are leaders of change Effective leaders enable quality learning Quality teachers enable quality learning

What are some of your favourite change tools/models?

Consider:

A problem or how you are going to create change in yourself or others. For example, if you are unhappy in your job what questions might

you ask yourself?

At what level were your questions targeted?

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Models for Learning – Models for Change 1

Gregory Bateson’s concept was that learning takes place on different levels in ‘Steps to an Ecology of Mind’, 1972:

A context for learning (environment)Learning (behaviour)Learning to learn (skills and competences)Believing that learning is vital to life (beliefs and values)Being a learning (identity)Contributing to others with your learning (purpose)

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Models for Learning – Models for Change 2

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Robert Dilts developed Neurological Levels of Change model from Bateson’s.

Useful for understanding change and how it occurs in people.Why change may or may not be happening.Enables a look at issues or situations to find where the real problem lies.

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Educational Leaders – Leaders of Learning

Good teachers – Good LeadersCollaborate, innovate and leadCreate the space for teachers/leaders to learn from their peersGive ‘authority to act’/Access to systems to change

Logical Levels of Change: Interactive

Self Reflection

C) Logical Level for change

i. problem state (individually)

Self-disclosure

i. Desired state (in pairs)

Discuss to share

D) What are the barriers to new leaders moving up with our school? (group working – flip chart responses using model)

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What factors account for gap in effectiveness? Level 1: The Environment – the situation. Answers questions where?

when? and with whom?

Level 2: The Behaviour – within the environment. Answers question what?

Level 3: The capabilities – skills and knowledge directing behaviour in the environment. Answers question how?

Level 4: The Beliefs and values – those things that are true and important to people within our context. Answer question why?

Level 5: The identity – people’s sense of self or their roles. Answers question of who?

Level 6: The purpose – how people connect to something bigger than themselves. Answers the question what for?

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Our Action Research Focus: Project Goals/ Outcomes/Objectives?

What?

Why?

How?

Our Impact?

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