Sharing Our Ideas

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Sharing Our Ideas
The Missing Link in ICT Professional Development?
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Introducing
The Sharing Staff Meeting
Carol Kendall ICT Facilitator St Albans Cluster
Learning_at_School Conference 2001 c.kendall_at_paradise
.net.nz
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How Can We IncreaseTeacher Awareness?

• Of what others are doing
• Within their own school
• In other schools
• Locally, nationally, internationally
• To use ICT as a tool for learning

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Many Teachers AreUnaware of

• Different ways of using ICT
• What their students are capable of
• How they their students can connect with others
  using ICT
• What quality is, where ICT is concerned?

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Kwok-Wing Lai

• Teachers do not necessarily understand, nor are
  they aware, of the benefits of ICT use in their
  teaching. 2001
• Serious computer users 20Secondary, 10
  Primary
• Occasional users 40 secondary, just over 1/3
  primary
• non-users 40 secondary, 50 primary

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When Do Teachers HaveTIMEto Really Share?

• Is this important?

Teachers DO share
dont they?
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What Do Teachers Talk About?

• Surface aspects of teaching, curriculum, not
  teaching practice
• Physical setup of schools - worsens isolation
• NZ teachers have a reputation for sharing
  resources, but what about teaching practice?
• The daily press

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• Overload, isolation, fragmentation of effort,
  and increasing despair describe the lot of most
  teachers.
• Fullan

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• There is simply not enough opportunity and not
  enough encouragement for teachers to work
  together, learn from each other, and improve
  their expertise as a community.
• Fullan

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The Daily Press Createsthe Following Impacts

• Enforces a short term perspective an emphasis
  upon coping
• Isolates teachers from dialogue with colleagues
• Exhausts them - leaving little left for special
  efforts sprints
• Limits opportunities for reflection
• Makes them dependent upon what they already know
  prone to follow routines
• Jamie McKenzies Building Good New Ideas, 2001
  referring to research of Fullan

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Teaching is a Solitary Profession

• where superb teachers leave their marks on
  their students, but they leave no marks on
  teaching.
• Judy Johnson

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What is Sharing?

• To receive or contribute a portion of.
• To join with another or others in the use of
  (something).
• Collins English Dictionary

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Fun!!!

• The learning journey is more fun if you have
  someone to share it with - like holiday photos -
  learning is a social activity.
• Geoff Mills

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Sharing isan Aspect of Collegiality
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Address Emotions the Challenge of Transfer

• The best adult learning programs will place a
  high priority on developing confidence, comfort
  and calm along with competence.
• Jamie McKenzie

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One SolutionThe Sharing Staff Meeting
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Key Features

• Modified PMI approach - de Bono
• Opportunity for teachers to share successes for
  themselves or their students
• Permission to express frustrations
• Looking forward

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Sharing Staff Meeting Format

• Introduction/outline
• P
• M
• I
• Facilitators Principal share too
• Minutes recorded
• (Brief questionnaire before after)

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Why PMI?

• A simple but powerful thinking tool being
  modelled
• Forces thinking toward the positive first
• All ideas accepted
• Looks at both sides of an issue
• Looks forward, new ideas

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Lets Try it
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Outcomes
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Future-tuning

• Have large screen or projection equipment
• Tour the classrooms
• Students present
• Celebration of all learning, not just ICT

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How Else Can WeShare Our Ideas?
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Just a few ideas suggested by the teachers at the
workshop

• Mailing lists/message boards
• Commsuite Area of TKI
• Extra 15 minutes on morning tea
• Techie brekkies
• Celebrations of learning
• Mentors
• Visits to other classrooms, schools, bus tours
• Exemplars of pupil work
• TKI
• Own web sites for sharing ideas
• Intranets
• Online chat
• Use the technology to help break down isolation.
• Make TIME for collegiality and sharing.

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Challenge

• What ways of sharing ideas will you implement in
  your school?
• What can you make time for?
• How often do you really share your ideas with
  other teachers?