Possible Norms
Norms
• Appreciate one another’s expertise
• Engage fully in all learning experiences
• Invest in your own learning
• Open you r mind to new ways of thinking
• Unite in purpose-improving student learning
The number one person that decides whether professional developement useful is the person listening.
It is not resistance-it is fear ---anxiety.
How do you have conversations that change behavior in classrooms?
Norms
Collaborate
Help clarify
Ask questions
Note ways to apply
Gain expertise
Encourage equal participation
CBOM
Concerns based adoption model
And a resistance model
Make cards Put these in order
4. Teachers change their attitudes
1. Staff development
2. Teacher change practices
3. Students learn
Coaches are there to see that people are using it.
Change is a process it is not an event
An organization does not change until the people in it change.
Sustainable change requires horizontal view. We all need to work together
Administrator leadership is essential for long term change
Mandates can work if people value the mandate –if not there is work to do
Schools are the place where change will take place
Go on-line to pull up the model.
Stages of Concern (SoC)
Levels of Use (LOU
Innovation Configuration Grant
Stages of Concern-measure the affective side of change-people’s feelings reactions, perceptions, and attitudes
Levels of Use
Measures behaviors and describes how people are implementing an innovation.
How often, what kids
When change first occurs
Adults tire more easily
Effects the energy of the participants
When given a new program, it takes more time to prepare
We can’t predict everything that will happen with the change.
We don’t feel like we are really on top of things when we have something new
We are great pretenders, fake it until we make it.
There needs to be support
Then what happens
It becomes familiar
The impossible becomes doable
We shift from struggles and frustrations to satisfaction and accomplishments
We being to see the benefits for students
We begin to fin-tune and make things even better
Change is about people and their implementation of new practices in the classroom, schools, and district
Change is about people and implementation
Eastman-Powerful professional development Designs
Saying it can disengage some emotion
Jean Hall book---GET IT
One-legged interview
Interview the person as long as it takes to stand on one foot.
Feelings about the change Any affective is a concern Doing is a level of use
Patterns fall into four areas
Unrelated (awareness) Don’t even know about it is happening Some folks stay in the unaware
Self – What does it mean to me
Task Actually doing it
Impact What difference does it make for kids?
Have to get past task in order to collaborate with other people.
How is it going?
What are you doing with ???
How do you feel about ???
Probe to clarify understanding Tell me what you mean by…?
Give me an example of…?
Managing conflict change a model she uses for facilitators with cross-cultural work.
Jane Kise
Need a common language for differentiated learning.
Briggs explains how normal people gain energy
We take in information in different ways.
All of these play a role in how we teach and learn.
It is about human nature
Differentiation through personality types Kise
