The Fifth ‘C’ – Coordination (Culture, Challenge, Communication, Collaboration, Change, Community) Darren Taylor and Jayne Lund
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The IB Coordinator Administration Pedagogical leadership
“Meeting the needs of the school it’s teachers, parents and most importantly our students”.
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So how do we become How do we define a “leader”? How does leadership differ from
Management? What can we do to demonstrate strong leadership?
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Some thoughts… A leader is “someone who can take an
organisation from where it is now to where it wants to be in the future” or “someone who converts vision in to action”. “A true leader has the ability to move an institution forward, whilst a manager concerns themselves with the procedures necessary to keep an institution running”- innovation v maintenance. (?) Alternatively “the leader focuses on vision and long term strategic development whilst the manager implements procedures to enable that vision to be achieved”. (adapted from Dunford Tuesday, 12 April 2011
How can we demonstrate sound leadership? by clear articulation of a vision by setting an example by remaining positive/passionate and
enthusiastic throughout the “change” process and by helping the team meet measurable interim targets…..
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Ref: Toy Story 3 – knowing your team
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Ref: Toy Story 3 – knowing your team
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Toy Story 3 video clip Ref: Toy Story 3 – “knowing your team” Equilibria – “colours” workshop Check your own “colours” http:// www.equilibria.vg
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Reflection 1
Who Who Who Who Who Who
in your school fits the bill as a leader? is a starter? is a finisher? is a thinker/innovator? is a doer? is the socialiser/relater?
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Teams and Team work “Our Iceberg has melted” John
Kotter
successful leadership leading to meaningful change follows a number (8) of basic steps. Create a sense of urgency. Pull together a team. Develop a strategy for change Communicate that strategy Remove barriers and empower others Create some short term manageable targets Be relentless (make vision a reality) but “allow irritation” Create a new culture
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But being a leader also Tedtalk -Derek Sivers – How to start a movement http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement
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Setting up a learning After Newman and Wehlage 1995
Assessment for Learning
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Professional learning community
Pedagogical practice
Becoming a learning Help promote high quality staff development
programmes Encourage teacher leadership and participation (A high trust environment) -The “leadership spread” in schools has been identified by the research as being particularly important ie “leaders develop leadership in others”. Promote shared goals, collaboration and collegiality and recognised the differences between top-down instructional leadership and transformational leadership with whole school involvement. (runningdeveloping-empowering a team). Develop processes, policy and procedures to Tuesday, 12 April 2011
10 ways to encourage sound Keep up to date with the research. (Read and share) and assist
schools based research and encourage others to write about their work. Experience and share CPD. Set a good example by the quality of your own teaching and support best practice teaching by regularly observing each other. Maintain relevant information on the overall performance of the different programmes in your school. Send regular reminders of the targets of your schools learning programmes, development plan and mission. Encourage collaboration and team work particularly in planning. Check your own leadership performance-appraise, reflect and improve. Think hard about the future – Have a vision as IB Coordinator!
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Aspects of Coordination Management and administration Also remember- “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit” ~John C. Maxwell
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On being a coordinator – 1. Why are you an IB coordinator? 2. Two reasons you enjoy your role? 3. I wonder why I’m doing this when… 4. The Coordinators plea: “Why can’t everyone
just…”
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What coordinators need… Coordination
Leadershi Organizat Marketin Interpers p skills/ ional g skills/ onal facilitatio skills/ program skills/’Th n/5 year administr me e Face of review ation maintena IB’
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Citizenship
Global outlook and international mindedness Respect and academic honesty Modeling ethical behavior Student, teacher and parent understandings of 21st century citizenship (networking/blogs)
Which of these are the biggest challenge for you at your school? What recent successes have you had in one area?
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Creativity Maintaining or promoting the programme? Problem solving – what do you do? Recurrent
‘problems’ or always ‘one offs’. Coordinators – only one per school – tap into each other’s creativity in problem solving, e.g. students late with work, teachers late or clumsy with paperwork, plagiarism, collusion, grade equivalencies Which of these are the biggest challenge for you at your school? What recent successes have you had in one area? Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Connectivity/Community IBO, IBAP, Helpdesk, IB Cardiff Regional network Local network – how connected is it for you? School community – what is in place to keep everyone informed and involved? Great for ideas, exemplars, problem solving, etc. (similar schools or not) Resources ‘library’ on OCC forum – Googledocs for school documents, calendars, anyone do this? Which of these are the biggest challenge for you at your school? What recent successes have you had in one area?
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Compassion-Some How do you deal with a struggling student? Have you had cause to use “Coordinators
discretion” during the course of exams?
What support does your local network provide
for you as a Coordinator and your school?
At this conference-IBO Research Unit/Andrew
Atkinson- workload for coordinators/IB Diploma students.
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An IB Coordinator is… Resilient Responsive Resourceful
And here’s an example of what that looks like…
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Thank you or Kap Khun Ka Darren Taylor data@patana.ac.th Jayne Lund jaynel@isb.ac.th
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