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‘Change happens by degree, not by decree’ Spanbauer

Change in education is a multi-faceted process that requires understanding various dimensions of improvement. This text elaborates on different orders of change including technical improvements, adaptive changes, and paradigm shifts, emphasizing the need for unlearning and a developmental approach. It highlights the importance of group work, knowledge construction, and coaching within schools to foster a positive learning environment. The moral purpose of education and shared responsibility among stakeholders play a crucial role in ensuring that change leads to meaningful benefits for all learners.

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‘Change happens by degree, not by decree’ Spanbauer

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  1. ‘Change happens by degree, not by decree’Spanbauer

  2. Change management for School Improvement

  3. Learning is changing your mind M.Fullan

  4. Response-ability

  5. Nature of change • 1st order • Technical improvements e.g. word processing, pocket calculators, 90’ slots, • 2nd order • Adaptive change e.g. new textbook, merger • 3rd order • Paradigm shift (= changing your mind) e.g. introducing self-directed learning • only through (un)learning

  6. Blueprint approach 1st & 2nd order Developmental approach 3rd order Impose Tell and sell Negotiate Learn Approaches & strategies

  7. e.g. Introducing self-directed learning • Individual work & Group work • coaching

  8. Group work • Group work is surface feature. It is an externalisation of a.o.the following principles: • Knowledge construction (creating shared meaning) • Learning from each other (Zone of proximal) development • Learning with each other (Socialisation, consensus seeking, active listening, positive interdependence)) • Oral interaction (communicative competence)

  9. Coaching • Do teachers believe in the coaching model of learning? • Do teachers have the necessary competence & skills to coach pupils? • Teachers will not properly coach pupils if they are not being coached themselves • This has an impact on the whole school ethos • E.g. error tolerance • E.g. Relationships among people

  10. School ethos • The moral purpose of education • Responsibility • Towards the whole learner • Towards all learners • Towards society • Shared Responsibility • Not customers but stakeholders

  11. Change and improvement • Change equals improvement when it benefits the learners, and these benefits rub off on the other stakeholders.

  12. Response-ability • Complex organisms • Ecologic approach • Delicate balance • Interrelated factors • Not rational logical mechanical process • Cause - effect • Tools/instruments • techniques

  13. change = learning + action Change happens when you develop new knowledge and then act upon it

  14. Assignment • Discuss change process you’re involved in: 1st, 2nd or 3rd order? • What change strategies do you consider to be effective?

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