Re: Teacher Change Re: Welcome to Sustainability & Insitutionalization
Ellen Miyasato (ellenm@kalama.doe.hawaii.edu)
Wed, 2 Apr 1997 00:30:30 -1000
Beverly,
Would like to know more about you TAPs incentives and the nature of the
professional development.
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Beverly Hunter wrote:
> With regard to teacher change,
> one strategy we (Vanguard for Learning) have found to be highly effective,
> is to provide incentives for teachers to work in innovative teams (we call
> them Team Action Plans (TAPs). In a school where teamwork has not been
> common in the past, this can be a major catalyst for professional
> development and creativity.
>
> At 7:43 AM -0500 3/31/97, Michael Williamson wrote:
> >Hi,
> > ASs far as change goes I feel that there is no one way to make changes.
> >Administrators and teachers are very different in motivation and goals.
> >unfortuately, many have the goal to stay the way it is now. We need to
> >reach and use the administrators and educators that are motivated to
> >support a multi-point "attack" to bring about change. Change might have a
> >chance if we take every in-road that is available to us.
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > J. Michael Williamson
> > Principal Investigator-WhaleNet <http://whale.wheelock.edu>
> > Associate Professor-Science
> > Wheelock College, 200 The Riverway, Boston, MA 02215
> >voice: 617.734.5200, ext. 256
> >fax: 617.734.8666, or 508.468.0073
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Ellen Miyasato wrote:
> >
> >> Hey, David...
> >> Happy Good Friday everyone...on with sustainabilitiy and
> >> Institutionalization.
> >>
> >> What??
> >> Teachers will never change, so reform begins at the top? I agree with
> >> you 1/2 ...IF we (teachers as well as staff development models) continue
> >> with our current "view of education and learning-for both students and
> >> teachers," we'll never change.
> >> Reform from the top will last only as long as the leader lasts.
> >> Throughout HERN, and entering into our third year...we are witnessing
> >> several evolving patterns on teachers making changes:
> >> - multiple dimensions of collaborative efforts among past
> >> partcipants infusing their influence in other organizations
> >> in Hawaii - like science, reading, foreign language,
> >> professional teacher orgs
> >> - multiple level resource collaboration among elementary,
> >> high school, community college teachers and students
> >> - teachers teaming with administrators in exploring the
> >> restructuring of learning
> >> During our third year, as the grant period ends, we're looking at two
> >> leverages for the continued evolvement (more than sustaining) of the
> >> reform efforts: engage educators in directing their own learning - an
> >> opportunity to grow in a professional community focusing on developing,
> >> providing ways of learning that are more in keeping with their
> >> professional lives and building collaborative networks. The second has
> >> been a challenge..during our first two years..
> >>
> >> What are your thoughts on David's statement: Teachers won't ever change
> >> so reform should start at the top?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>
> >>> Ellen Miyasato phone: (808)
> >>956-2854
> >> Hawaii Education & Research Network fax: (808) 956-5025
> >> ellenm@kalama.doe.hawaii.edu
> >> http://www.hern.hawaii.edu/hern/
> >>
> >>
> >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>
> >>>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 17 Mar 1997 david@hawaii.edu wrote:
> >>
> >> > Aloha to you all!
> >> >
> >> > Ellen Miyasato and I have agreed to moderate this forum and look
> >>forward to a
> >> > lively interchange with you over the next several weeks. And who
> >>knows, maybe
> >> > even longer! Our mission, should we decide to accept it, is to consider
> >> > issues such as:
> >> >
> >> > Technology planning
> >> > Administrative use of technology
> >> > Bringing all players to the table
> >> > Interacting with the bureaucracy
> >> > Overcoming inertia
> >> > The tension between politics and educational reform
> >> > Harnessing existing funds for educational reform
> >> >
> >> > Of course, there are no grownups in the room so we can ignore these
> >> > suggestions and take off in direction you would like.
> >> >
> >> > One of the benefits of being 5 hrs behind the East Coast is that this
> >>is one
> >> > of the last "welcome" messages to go online and I got to check out the
> >>others
> >> > before posting this. There's a lot of text and content on-line
> >>already and no
> >> > interaction yet. I'd say if we can get just a couple of lively
> >>discussions
> >> > going with *real* interchange among us that we can consider this a
> >>success.
> >> > So let me throw out a few provocative (I think) statements and see if
> >>any of
> >> > you agree/disagree. As this develops it may be useful to try to focus our
> >> > discussion, but for now, let's just see if we have anything to talk about.
> >> >
> >> > Any technology plan with user involvement and buy-in will be obsolete
> >>by the
> >> > time it's completed.
> >> >
> >> > The only way to fund educational networks is to integrate them
> >>completely with
> >> > administrative networks.
> >> >
> >> > Unless we "fix" colleges of education then everything we do in the
> >>field is a band-aid.
> >> >
> >> > There weill never be adequate technical support for schools, so
> >>teachers must
> >> > learn to support themselves with the help of their students.
> >> >
> >> > You can't change anything unless the teachers are all on-board.
> >> >
> >> > Teachers will never change, so reform begins at the top.
> >> >
> >> > The Universal Service Fund will solve all the technology problems in
> >>our schools.
> >> >
> >> > Reactions / comments / corrections???
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
> Beverly Hunter
> Program Manager, Educational Technology Systems
> BBN Systems & Technologies Division
> 70 Fawcett Street
> Cambridge, MA 02138
> http://copernicus.bbn.com
>
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