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Reformers have largely worked within, rather than on, the system of education. Working within the system has resulted in status-quo preservation, even when reformists felt they were being radical. Illich failed to account for how educational institutions are integrated into society. Freire spoke with a humanity and hope that was largely overlooked by a comfortable developed world incapable of seeing the structure and impact of its system. To create and nurture change, a message must not only be true for an era, but it must also resonate with the needs, passions, interests, realities, and hopes of the audience to whom the message is directed.
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Is a lack of PD a barrier?
Professional development is a barrier, although I think they can teach themselves much of what teachers need to be learning to be able to modernise their classrooms. The worst thing a teacher can say is: "who's going to teach me how to do that?" Teachers are teachers and should be able to teach themselves what they need to know. If they can't then they probably shouldn't be teaching. You want a teacher who can keep up. There are networks of other educators out there that can connect you with new skills.
Professional development doesn't have to be something that is done to teachers – it can be just ongoing conversations they're having with other professionals that they're learning from every day.
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Knowledge sharing can be a demanding and uncertain process. At the individual level, it may evoke perceptions of conflict of interest or vulnerability (e.g. Argote et al., 2001). For example, Ardichvili et al. (2003) found that ‘fear of criticism’ and ‘fear of [inadvertently] misleading others’ can inhibit knowledge sharing.
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The other issue that jumped out at me was that coaches are required and expected
to work with all teachers. This directly contradicts my long-held
belief in
working with the willing
. Perhaps I simply need to adjust that
to: we should start with the willing, but know that eventually we do
have to work with everyone. I do still firmly believe that to work with
everyone, with the focus on improving student learning (which may entail
changing teaching practice),
requires clear and transparent communication from administrators
about our roles and purpose
.
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Add Sticky Notehow to move beyond simply supporting teachers to increase their comfort level
within our curricular areas to implementing changed practices with all faculty
members to improve student learning.- A key point in PD and NOT avoiding our own continued learning. Have the student learning as the explicit core - on 2009-09-06
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Add Sticky NoteThe other issue that jumped out at me was that coaches are required and expected
to work with all teachers. This directly contradicts my long-held
belief in working with the willing. Perhaps I simply need to adjust that
to: we should start with the willing, but know that eventually we do
have to work with everyone. I do still firmly believe that to work with
everyone, with the focus on improving student learning (which may entail
changing teaching practice), requires clear and transparent communication from administrators
about our roles and purpose.- Time to move on to all, as change momentum builds - on 2009-09-06
Relationships in School- Collaboration & Collegiality
We speak so often about opening the walls of our classroom to the world. With collaborative 21st century tools, such as Skype and wikis, we try to encourage teachers to reach beyond their customary horizon out to others in the world.
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the research team of which I was a part, found that the boundaries between work and learning are increasingly blurring, that we need to have more positive and holistic approaches in the workplace, and that there is a need for a greater balance between cre
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The mission of our organization is to transform education by developing in teachers the desire to become life-long learner, collaborators and inspirational motivators of each other and our students. We believe this can be accomplished through fostering cr
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We wonder why people new to the concepts of collaboration and decentralised knowledge have problems incorporating them into their teaching and then we provide conferences and PD sessions that are still structured with one font of all knowledge in front of
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