2 Leading for Learning? Flashcards
How evaluate extent to which your organisation is building school capacity and culture and developing its structure to promote organisational learning?
-> need to establish a WHAT & WHAT climate?
-establishing a trusting and collaborative climate
How evaluate extent to which your organisation is building school capacity and culture and developing its structure to promote organisational learning?
-> need to take ____ and ____
-taking initiatives and risks
How evaluate extent to which your organisation is building school capacity and culture and developing its structure to promote organisational learning?
-> mission
need to share, monitor and evaluate mission
How evaluate extent to which your organisation is building school capacity and culture and developing its structure to promote organisational learning?
-> what type of leadership?
distributed leadership
How evaluate extent to which your organisation is building school capacity and culture and developing its structure to promote organisational learning?
-> ensuring what type of PD?
ensuring ongoing and relevant professional development
List Hofstede’s 5 cultural dimensions
-individualism-collectivism
-power distance
-uncertainty avoidance
-status-relationship
-long term short term orientation
1994
Define Hofstede’s cultural dimension in relation to effective learning: individualism-collectivism
The degree to which the organisation puts value on collaboration as significant in learning for organisations and individuals or on individual activity
Define Hofstede’s cultural dimension in relation to effective learning: power distance
How far an organisation encourages responsibility by learners for their learning or dependence on teachers.
The degree to which deference to the teacher or engagement with the teacher is expected.
Define Hofstede’s cultural dimension in relation to effective learning: uncertainty avoidance
the degree to which organisations encourage risk takin, openness and vulnerability or encourage compliance in learning.
Define Hofstede’s cultural dimension in relation to effective learning: status-relationship
How far organisations value performance in tests over effective learning practices.
Define Hofstede’s cultural dimension in relation to effective learning: Long-Term-Short-Term orientation
The degree to which the institution values dispositions such as perseverance, persistence over protection of face and respect for established authorities
Hofstede’s cultural dimensions - which year?
1994
Name 4 norms significant in learning organisations:
- collaborative climate among teachers
- problem seeking and solving
- acceptance of risk and experimentation
- feedback for learning
Mitchell and Sackney (2001) have suggested that building capacity for a learning community requires the simultaneous building of 3 things…
personal,
interpersonal
and organisational capacities
(part of collaborative climate part of norms in an organisation)
WHAT YEAR:
Mitchell and Sackney have suggested that building capacity for a learning community requires the simultaneous building of personal, interpersonal and organisational capacities:
“A learning community is supported when organizational structures, power dynamics and procedural frameworks support professional learning for individuals and for groups.”
(2001)
one method of problem seeking:
Hammond, ????
Appreciative Inquiry (Hammond, 1996)
Appreciative Enquiry by Hammond…what year?
1996
DEFINE Appreciative Inquiry (Hammond, 1996)
starts by identifying what is already the best practice in an organisation and encourages participants to envisage more good practice.
Why Problem seeking and solving?
processes to do this are active, promote collaborative learning, and encourage responsibility in learning and engagement in meta-learning.
Clarke said about risk taking in learning organisation
-and WHAT YEAR
2000: It is a vital feature of a learning organisation that it will take risks in order to survive.
Reed and Stoll said about risk taking and experimentation
-and WHAT YEAR
2000: Managers and leaders will need to provide time for experimentation, trial and error and handling failure.