SUPPORTING CREATIVITY, COLLABORATION, AND INNOVATION …€¦ · SUPPORTING CREATIVITY,...
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Second Annual Teacher Leader Fellowship Program InstituteNew Britain, CT, UNITED STATES
22nd May 2018
SUPPORTING CREATIVITY, COLLABORATION, AND INNOVATION IN STUDENTS AND IN TEACHERS:
THE FINLAND STORY
FIVE WAYS TO KILL TEACHER LEADERSHIP
1 Design and implement education policies and incentives that will reward school-to-school and teacher-to-teacher competition and punish the losers.
2 Create externally mandated standards for teaching and learning requiring that all teachers in every school must adjust their teaching to these standards.
FIVE WAYS TO KILL TEACHER LEADERSHIP
3 Insist frequent standardized census-based testing and use test results to hold teachers and schools accountable for student outcomes and school performance.
FIVE WAYS TO KILL TEACHER LEADERSHIP
Accept fast-track teacher preparation pathways to ease teacher shortages and lower professional and academic requirements at entry to initial teacher education.
FIVE WAYS TO KILL TEACHER LEADERSHIP
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Expand teachers’ and school principals’ workloads to the point that they don’t have any time of energy to do anything else but what is required by authorities.
FIVE WAYS TO KILL TEACHER LEADERSHIP
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WHAT DID THE FINNS DO?
CREATIVITY: SCHOOL-LED CURRICULUM1
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COLLABORATION: EQUITY AS A DRIVER2
“Equity in schooling means ensuring that differences in educational outcomes are not the result of differences in wealth, income, power or possessions.”
- Review of Funding for Schooling (2011)
Collaboration
for equity
School health and wellbeing
Special education
Whole-child approach
Positive discrimination
Early childhood education
3INNOVATION: SMALL DATA
Big trends
Processed by machines
Algorithms and analytics
Reveal correlations
Predict the future
Tiny clues
Processed by humans
Collective professional voice
Reveal causations
Understand the present
Example: “Why kids don’t like mathematics?”
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Usually fat male
Unstylish
No friends - except other mathematicians
No romantic relationships or social life
Wrinkles in their forehead from thinking so hard
Very short tempers
“Imagine a mathematician at work”
Lead with Small Data, or you’ll be led by Big Data.
Conclusion
Collaboration
Trust
Risk-taking
The cultures of teacher leadership
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Thank you!