The Power of a Schoolwide Pedagogical Framework

WorkshopSaturday 4th May 2013Stuartholme School, Toowong

Joan ConwayShauna PetersenLindy Abawi

ResearchersLeadership Research International USQ

LEADERSHIP RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL

Session Overview

When What9.00am – 9.40am Introduction

What do !/we know about Schoolwide pedagogy? Introducing the LRI’s research and development around Schoolwide Pedagogy. What do we want to know?

9.40am – 10.50am Learning Experience 1: The power of Schoolwide Pedagogy

Clarifying the purpose Definitions of explicit teaching/instruction aligned to my Personal Pedagogy

10.50 – 11.20am Morning tea

11.20 – 12.30am Learning Experience 1: Building on the power of Schoolwide Pedagogy

Strengthening commitment to ownership of new knowledge 

12.30-1.00pm Reflection and ‘take home messages’

KWL – explicit teaching

Know Want to know Learnt

KWL

What do I/we know about schoolwide pedagogy?

SWP helps professional learning communities when:

Selecting teaching strategies Choosing resources Identifying and accessing support Aligning behaviour management practices across a school Interacting with the community Determining PD needs Prioritising demands and imperatives Identifying organisational ways of working and creating or

implementing policies ….

SWP: Organic & intuitive

The Research BackgroundThe development of the LRI’s concept of SWP was informed by research :

The most successful schools …found a way to channel staff and student efforts toward a clear, commonly shared purpose for student learning; they created opportunities for teachers to collaborate and help one another achieve the purpose; and teachers in these schools took collective — not just individual — responsibility for student learning. (Newmann & Wehlage, 1995)

“The fact that a person has a particular orientation towards himself or herself and the world is important, but equally important are the ideas and values to which the orientation is related” (Sarason, 1982, p. 176-7).

SWP: What is it?

A schoolwide pedagogy (SWP) is an agreed set of pedagogical principles that reflect the distinctive qualities of a school community.

SWP enables a teaching staff to:

Emphasize agreed priority strategies for teaching or learning or both in the diverse curricular and extra-curricular practices of a school

Reinforce each other’s strengths in their core work Grow professionally through a collaborative professional

learning approach

SWP: Part of a whole

One element within a process of improvement – a number of pre-requisites must be in place.

Commitment, diagnosis and a vision for the future are essential starting points

SWP

KWL

What do I/we want to know?

SWP: One approachSchool vision: Aspire, Create, Together

ASPIRE to become the best we can be by CREATING new ideas and knowledge so that TOGETHER we succeed.

ACTIVE pedagogy: INSERT VIDEO CLIP Active commitment Creativity Teamwork Individual Vision Empathy

SWP: Making the linksPrinciple Definition Authoritative

PedagogyKey Resources

Empathy Empathy refers to the fostering of positive relationships based on mutual respect between all members of the school community (teachers, parents and students). Our school is a place where care and respect of the environment is actively promoted.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory.

At this school we:

• welcome community participation in the school•Create a classroom environment based on mutual respect•Discuss current environmental issues•Give students the responsibility of caring for our school environment.

Learning Experience 1:

The Power of SWP

The Tale of Greenfield Elementary The Grameen Bank

KWL

What have I/we learnt?

Morning Tea

Learning Experience 2:

Building on the Power of SWP

Eacham High School

SWP: What are the benefits?

Personal professional learning Collaborative professional learning Relationships building across a campus An opportunity to develop teacher leaders Promotes teacher commitment Creation of a sense of shared purpose Develops professional community Does more than just tick boxes Allows schools to be one step ahead of the game

SWP: Key messages

Soaring with light“From the castle……to the network”

Vision Clarity Unique to context Collective commitment Underpinned by theory

What else?

3-Dimensional Pedagogy

LRI SWP Development AssistanceTwo possible ways of obtaining assistance from LRI staff for your SWP development journey:

1. A Cluster Delivery Model consisting of a series of workshops plus facilitator development sessions run via teleconference – a cluster in this case is considered to be 3 or more schools working together. Although working together each school is empowered to create their own unique SWP.

2. A two day resource package providing hands on intensive training for pedagogical leaders to learn how to work with these resources in their context.

SWP Cluster Workshops

Workshop 1: Orientation

Workshop 2: Personal Pedagogy

Workshop 3: Collective Pedagogical Awareness

Workshop 4: Successful Practices

Workshop 5: Defining SWP

Workshop 6: SWP in Context

Workshop 7: Validation and implementation

SWP: Two day PD

A Resource Package comprising 3 components (2 optional):

1. A 2-day Professional Development Program together with resources for school leaders of pedagogy development

2. Optional - Two 30 minute teleconferences between a school and an LRI consultant subsequent to the 2-day program. (A professional fee will be applicable.)

3. Optional – A school may wish to negotiate an onsite visit by an LRI consultant during implementation of their SWP developmental process. (A professional fee and any travel costs are applicable.)

LRI Contact detailsIf you would like further information about the LRI and/or package options please contact the LRI administrator Marlene Barron:

marlene.barron@usq.edu.au

or you can email any of uslindy-anne.abawi@usq.edu.au

joan.conway@usq.edu.au shauna.petersen@usq.edu.au