What Personal Development happens in your workplace?
What strategies does your organization have in place to encourage development, change and innovation?
My School is a tradition secondary school. Leading group of my school respects the personal mastery of teachers, so my school provides convenience to teachers for self-directing personal development, but seldom provides vision and direction of personal development and systemic training for the tendency of student centre learning model.
Refer to ACOT Model of Professional Development; my school is just step in the stage of “Adaptation”. Except Computer Studies, seldom homework and projects are required the use of IT except Word and PowerPoint. Recently my school started to use WebQuest for School Based Assessment of HKDSE. Collaborative learning using IT still hasn’t appeared.
To enter the next levels of facilitation of my school, Figure below (Shortland-Jones, Alderson, & Baker, 2001) illustrates the process needed to help change occur.
For my school, the main element lacks is Action Plan. Although the IT coordinator in my school has good vision on IT development, leading group has not provided enough support for him to draw up a practicable action plan that can move all the stakeholders to participate in. A committee responds on innovation of pedagogy in IT can be held to increase the authority to manage resources and draw up the plan.
Shortland-Jones, B., Alderson, A., & Baker, R. (2001). Leadership for Cultural Change: Developing a Community of Learners in Teacher Education. International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 5(1).
Similar case happens in my school.
回覆刪除Even if the teachers in IT team are well equipped with the necessary skills, staff members from other subjects are not ready for changes, esp. in I.T. There are I.T. related staff development programmes from time to time, but yet the attendance is low.
As an I.T. teacher, we are frustrated as we spent efforts in something that cannot be easily done. For other teachers, they are resistant as they can see the vision, most of them are equipped with skills, but they do not have strong incentives.
I believe the main reason is teachers are extreme busy. Therefore they are refused to spend time on things that they can't forecasting the advantages.
刪除To solve the problems, force from the leading group must be given. More promotions are also required to inspire them.
Action plan
回覆刪除I do agree with my member that an action plan should be implemented at different phase stage. An IT coordinator should be appointed by top management and hold meetings with different stakeholders like principals, teachers and representative students for discussion of the plan. After collecting their opinion, the IT coordinator will draw up a plan at different phase stages and invite all stakeholders to participate in the implementation. An independent committee which consists of top management,teachers and administrators should be set up to monitor the action plan being successfully implemented at college or school. Review meeting will be held at regular intervals say once per quarter of a year. Feedback from users will be collected and discussed for further improvement at meeting.
I am totally agree with you that the succession of innovation require sufficient communicate with different stakeholders. Formal meeting is required for it. However, the culture in secondary school is difficult to held so many meeting. I think e-platform can increase the communicate between diffrerent stakeholders.
刪除I agree with you all too. But it's much better if incentives can be provided to teachers as well. It can help move forward to "catalytic Integration Model".
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