Why Teachers Must Become Change Agents Michael Fullan

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Why Teachers Must Become Change AgentsMichael
Fullan

• Dr. Karen Burke, CSJ
• Western Connecticut State University

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Personal Reflection

• Why did you become a educator?
• Why do you remain in education?

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To Make A Difference in the Lives of Students
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Fullans Theme

• To make teaching a noble and effective profession
  teachers must combine the mantle of moral purpose
  with the skills of change agentry.

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Four Core Capacities for Building Greater Change
Capacity

• Personal Vision-Building
• Inquiry
• Mastery
• Collaboration

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Personal Vision-Building

• Examining and re-examining why we came into
  teaching.
• What difference am I trying to make personally?
• Creating a vision forces us to take a stand for a
  preferred future.
• Alternative Assignment Write your own vision
  statement for you as an educator.

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Inquiry

• The essential activity for keeping our paradigm
  current is persistent questioning.
• Life-long learners
• Career-long learners
• Fueled by information and ideas in the
  environment.

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Mastery

• Expertise is central to successful change.
• Strong initial teacher education
• Career-long staff development
• Not just exposed to new ideas but skilled in them!

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Collaboration

• There is a ceiling effect to how much we can
  learn if we keep it to ourselves.
• Work together
• Join forces
• Team up
• Work in partnership
• Pool resources
• Act as a team
• Cooperate with each other