In the first post we looked at those things that are driving us to change. These are the expectations of the wider community and our students. Having established the aspects that are driving our change we need to set goals and objectives.
When it comes to setting goals I like the SMART concept:
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Timely
The goals we set [...]
The Expectations of stakeholders
Recently, I have been working on a program for the senior school and it is interesting to reflect on this. The first point of reflection is the “why” question. Why do we want to incorperate technology into the program, and this isn’t just a technology program it is actually about any form [...]
Accessing recreational sites during classes and while at work is an issue facing employers [3] and schools alike. The cost, in dollar terms, can be huge and in lost productivity, is significant. Various strategies are employed to manage this but these are often ineffective, draconian or dictatorial. How can we manage this issue better?
The digital [...]
I receive from the University of Auckland a regular update on the short course they run (they are very good). The latest one was talking about leadership.
They stated five practices of Exemplary Leadership. They are:
Leaders model the way.
Leaders inspire a shared vision.
Leaders challenge the process.
Leaders enable others to act.
Leaders encourage the heart.
I have been thinking [...]
I have been mulling over the software deal for schools now for a couple of days and it is raising more concerns.
The Software for schools deal provides “certainty” for some of the stakeholders, namely the software suppliers. They have certainty of funding and revenue for the next three years.
It does not provide certainty for schools, [...]
I had a fascinating conversation the other day with a colleague. She was talking about her previous school and her Principal. The Principal had a clear stated policy that all Principals and Senior Management were teaching Principals. So She and her Associate and Deputy Principals had regular scheduled classes. These classes were not the occassional [...]
I am involved in a change process at the moment. The change involves removing a software item and replacing it with a similar but different tool. The change has been signalled literally for years, but never actioned until now, so the people involved have never changed their use patterns to the new tool.They haven’t changed [...]
Its report time at school again at school. Reports are not one of the favourite times for me.
All schools write reports. I know, I have seen a few from a variety of schools. I believe that many, if not most schools are stuck in the same paradigm and it needs to shift. Reports are one [...]
Cool Cat Teacher – Vicki Davis – twittered a link to an interesting survey. http://www.siia.net/visionk20/pages/progress.html
Its interesting as it is a online or paper survey constructed by the Software and Information Industry association. The survey looks at various measures of ICT (Information and communication technology) use. It asks you to measure your use of ICT’s for:
21st [...]
Introduction
My principal often tells me that one of the hardest tasks we have as educators is integrating ICT into our curriculum. For us to successfully integrate ICT, we need to manage the change and the best resource I have found for this process came from a paper by J. Thousand and R. Villa, called Managing [...]
