No pain no gain: PD

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No pain no gain PD the whole school change
challenge

• Peter Lasscock - 2004

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Complexity of managing change
change
Adapted from Enterprise Management Ltd 1987
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Whole school change

• Whole School Change Enduring and Successful

• Vision planning
• vision - pride and identity
• resources allocated
• shared leadership

• Cohesive community
• understanding
• ownership

• Learning teaching
• authentic
• agreed relationships
• learning processes
• learning to learn

• Resources organisation
• Use of space, time and technology

Adapted from the IDEAS Project Prof Frank
Crowther the IDEAS Project Team, 1999
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Performance Development

• What we need to avoid
• Elements of good PD
• Forget about the kids and worry about the
  teachers. Unless they are adequately prepared
  you are wasting your time and... Money. Chris
  Bigum

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Types of Professional Development

• That we need to steer away from

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• Just in case
• one day it might be useful.
• one day you might have the resources available to
  try it.
• Structurally inadequate no immediacy or
  resources.

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• Just because
• the principal says its important.
• the Department has a new initiative.
• Ideologically inadequate no shared vision.

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Learning teaching

• Learning and Teaching
• authentic
• agreed relationships
• learning processes
• learning to learn

• As we integrate information and communication
  technologies into our practice classrooms will
  only become information rich and learning rich if
  we attend to all the features which enhance
  learning in any learning situation. Julia
  Atkin
• Do these things occur in your school? How
  widespread?
• How are they valued and assessed?
• What are the skills that kids need?

Emotional intelligence Integrating ICT Habits of
the mind Authentic assessment
Integrated curriculum Inquiry learning Active
learning Reflective learning Cooperative learning
Thinking skills Learning styles Multiple
intelligences Visual literacy

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The challenge ahead Take calculated risks!
lasscock.peter.p_at_edumail.vic.gov.au