Learning to Be a Change Agent: System Leaders Master Skills to Encourage Buy-In for Reforms

Autor/inn/en	Lesaux, Nonie K.; Marietta, Sky H.; Galloway, Emily Phillips
Titel	Learning to Be a Change Agent: System Leaders Master Skills to Encourage Buy-In for Reforms
Quelle	In: Journal of Staff Development, 35 (2014) 5, S.40-45 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0276-928X
Schlagwörter	Instructional Leadership; Change Agents; Prior Learning; Educational Change; Response to Intervention; Screening Tests; Student Evaluation; Program Evaluation; Faculty Development; Literacy; Reading Instruction; Communities of Practice; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Professional Identity; Teachers; Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Vorkenntnisse; Bildungsreform; Screening-Verfahren; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Leseunterricht; Community; Pädagogische Kompetenz; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Student; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin
Abstract	In designing professional learning for system-level leaders, two participant roles emerge as key: learners of content and agents of change. For learners, the principles of strong instruction apply. Exposure to content must occur repeatedly, be connected to prior knowledge, and is most effective when communities of learners work together. As change agents, participants must be able to broker the knowledge they have gained and build buy-in in the larger school community. One-day, one-size-fits-all professional development workshops remain the most common method for cultivating new knowledge and capacities among educators. However, it has been clear for some time that this model lacks the intensity and multiple opportunities for learning and application known to bring about student improvement. Although extant research points to the need to transform this approach, few districts have committed the resources--both financial and human--to professional learning that leverages what is known about learning, teaching, and school reform. This article describes a professional learning initiative that sought to provide the intensity needed to build conceptual and applied knowledge to support district leaders in assuming the role of change agents. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10