AQAL for Effective Instruction and School Improvement

Applying Ken Wilber’s Integral Vision to the Instructional

Improvement Process

All Quadrants All LinesIntegral Theory incorporates physical, neurological, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. These complimentary and inter-related realities provide a useful framework for analysis of the instructional process.

Each quadrant corresponds to a critical dimension for instructional analysis.

Teacher as a person

Education as a social system for

Teaching

School as a

teaching culture

Teaching as a science

•Content Standards•Professional Knowledge•Skills•Curriculum•Assessment•Testing

•Identity •Beliefs•Mental Models•Teaching Processes•Communication•Meaning-Making Processes

•Philosophy•Resource Management•Educational Policy•Accountability•Equity•Hierarchical structures

•Shared Purpose•Common Vision•Learning community•Decision-making•Power and Authority•Agreed-upon rules, processes and procedures

Each quadrant corresponds to a critical dimension of instructional analysis.

Learner as

a person

Learning as a science

School as a Learning

culture for students

Education as a social system for

Learning

•Brain Research•Technology•Content/Subjects•Behavior•Grades•Test Scores•Projects

•Engagement•Identity•Task Relevance•Sense Making•Motivation•Conceptual understanding

•Relationships•Courses of study•Governance•Respect for processes, rules, and procedures•Achievement•Presentations•Performances•Family Involvement

•Philosophy•Resource Management•Educational Policy•Academic decisions•Accountabilty•Equity•Hierarchical structures

When conflict occurs or the absence of learning is present, understanding the processes that inhabit the space between two or more critical perspectives is essential and can inform dialogue

toward solutions of mutuality.

Teacher as a person

Education as a social system for Learning

School (Teachers) as a cultural phenomemon

Teaching as a science

Learner as a person

Learning as a science

School (Learners) as a cultural phenonemon

Education as a social system for Teaching

Relevance

Reflection

Rigor

Relationship