Andy Hargreaves Keynote L@S 2009
Boston College
The Fourth Way of Leadership & Change
effects of ICT & elearning - no positive effect on teaching/learning & student achievement WHEN USED IN ISOLATION, unless you also think about the process/pedagogy of teaching & learning!
to understand where we're going - get a grip on where we've been
How did we get here. What did we leave behind?
The First Way of Change - 60's - 70's Wanted to change the world. Age where there was alot of flexibility. A lot of innovation in this period, but few ways of spreading it around.
The Second Way of Change - Top Down Government Trying to add some coherernce to performance of schools. Goals / performance / Targets. Sounds like the tick box culture regarding curriculum coverage
The Third Way of Change Combination of Top down governement and bottom up support.
Fourth Way Finland a different perspective Nokia - Finland has not always been high performing - lost access to Russian Market unemployment 19% Head of Nokia (no tourism - no resources - all they had was people) Become the leading knowledge economy.Skills unmatched any where else. They had very few resources but recognised that people were greatest resource - Therefore set goal to become the best knowledge economy in the world. Nokia named after a town in Nokia - large furry rodent called a Nokia!!! Was a timber company then a rubber company (GUMBOOTS!!!!) 30s ladiesw rubber highheeled shoes cables. Change job every 15 months in mangagement so you are loyal to the brand not the job.
Nokia is named after a town/River Nokia/Large furry rodent! Nokia galoshes/high-heeled showes/electrical communication cables. Bad news travels fast?
Collaboration is direct in Finland
So agree with comment: To be the best you have to reconnect to what you did well in the past. We do need to reinvent the good stuff that we did in schools. That's so right - too much throwing baby out with the bathwater has happened its the return of the cycle
less than 1 in 10 chance of becoming a primay teacher in FInland - fantastic (!)
competition is a good thing, we need to be more competitive See teachers as leaders More value on teachers Switzerland also recognises value of teachers to uplifting society into knowledge skills,sustainability etc. Broad Guidlines. Teachers create curriculum together - trust, cooperation, responsibility important.
Create success by lifting EVERY child up from the bottom
Responsible for all students in your school, not just those in your class
Collaborative trrust and responsibility. For leadership it means if you are away or sick or drunk school belongs to all of the teachers not just the principal - trust of staff high trust model where have we heard that before norms become important Capabilities to deal with staff/situations. Community is
Finnish Improvement Qualities clear societal vision strong public investment high-quality high-status teachers steering by the state local curriculum development trust, cooperation and responsibility improvement through uplift leaders who teach no initiative -itis
Commited to future of community together
Strong helping the weak - not ideology but human decency - lift them up
Tower Hamlets. low decile.
Poverty is no excuse for failure!(Chrisine Gilbert)
imposes impossible expectations...excellent
Measureable targets set with the principals; better to have ambitious targets; Better to have ambitious targets and not quite get to them than to have mediocre targets and achieve them. Know your people the district the school before applying standards that don't fit.
Finland has no standardised assessments. Lot of data
Great investment in families, communities etc in Finland - not just in education.
high quality teachers with commitment to the community.
They got rid of the poor teachers.
Yay, we want classroom assistants! They are called Parent helpers if you can get good ones (YEP! - just have to train them well). Would like less paperwork!!
And someone doing playground duty - could then get out and play more with the kids.
Support for teachers from the community - including the Imans in the Mosque! Work with your parents and community. article from guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2003/mar/11/schools.gcses2002 Community engagement.
Competition & collaboration can go together Frienldly Win win rivalry not at the expense of others How to get schools to work together for their communities...
sticking-ness? keeping people on websites - rather than browsing away
Do we favour students who remind us of "our fabulous selves"?
Andy hates rubrics! - "how can you divide life into four different levels?" - loves using them too much, penalising students who had different talents, valuing things important to him Tthe rubric should be a check against our favoritism.
It's like trying to make people think according to the 'De Bono Hats' when their way of thinking doesn't fit any of them.
Powerpoint on the conference website: http://centre4.core-ed.net/modules/kb/viewentries.php?space_key=21231&module_key=70381&category_key=950
Fourth way
- Open professionalism working together
- If you want achievement you have to have investment - there needs to be a return on investment
- ROI - return on investment
- Corporate partners - who practice corporate social responsibility - only be partners with coroprations that practice corporate social responsibility
- Students as partners in change - students are usually the targets of change efforts and services - without students there would be no teachers!
3 Priciples of Professionalism -high quality teachers -powerful professionalism -lively learning communities
Invest in the development in leadership to ensure and develop change
Not heroic leadership but sustainable leadership - so that things can continue in your absence
Network with no nanny - hope NZ Govt is listening!
Responsibility before Accountability - accountability is the reminder that is left when responsibility has been subtracted.
Notes are already up on the L@S09 website: http://centre4.core-ed.net/modules/kb/viewentries.php?space_key=21231&module_key=70381&category_key=950
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