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By admin on Oct 18, 2007 | In Announcements | 3 feedbacks »
Andy Hargreaves speaking at the Assessment Conference in Saskatoon, October 18,2007
Notes from his keynote...While this isn't synthesized, it should give you an idea of his talk
(My thoughts are in caps)
Old Testament....Assessment of learning
- If you think literacy alone will fix education think again.....streets of London so unsafe because kids are uncoothe, lack culture and are unfit
- focusing on short gains only turns schools into mini Enrons.
- Child welfare rankings shows Canada #11 in the world US #20 of 21. Canada ranks #2 in Education but lower in other areas in safety and well being and behaviour and risks.
WHAT ARE WE DOING TO HELP DEVELOP WELL ROUNDED CITIZENS?
New Testament...Assessment For learning
- Consider: increase innovation, personalized learning, assessment for learning, distributed learning
- Personalized learning involves networks and connected learning to their life goals and contributions to society (ROUGHLY PARAPHRASED)
- Teachers leave the profession because they don't have the opportunity to be involved in leadership early on....Distributed Leadership
Third Testament: Responsibility not Accountability
- Discussing Finland
- Nokia employees change departments every 15 months...not loyal to a dept but to the company
- Nokia provides 40% of Finland GDP
- They believe...Bad News must spread quickly
- Finland is seeking to be the creative edge of knowledge building....all students there get this.
- Music is a key component of education. They understand the connection of the past to the future
SEE KEN ROBINSON'S TALK ON CREATIVITY!
#1 sought after profession.......Teachers! 1 in 10 get into Teacher Education
If you get the best,smartest, kid loving people into educations, you've got half the battle won.
PLC's should not be figuring out someone else's curriculum but developing it together.
i CAN HEAR THE WHEEL'S TURNING NOW....
Finnish teachers not concerned with data....they recognize when somethings wrong and immediately respond in a calm, quiet way...
Trust, cooperation and responsibility. Gov'ts trust teachers and teachers trust gov't , they don't feel accountability they feel responsibility
Leadership in Finland:
- all leaders must continue to teach...every principal teachers at least 2 times per week
The long and the short of it
The secret is making sure that short term goals keeps you focused.
SOUNDS FAIRLY OBVIOUS BUT LOOK AT THE REPORT
A culture where schools help schools and the strong help the weak. The process is transparent not just the results.
HARGREAVES HAS SOME VERY COMPELLING IDEAS THAT I DARE SAY ALL OR MOST TEACHERS WOULD AGREE. DOES REQUIRE A SHIFT. PART OF THE SHIFT WERE CURRENTLY IN BUT ALSO HONORING TEACHERS AS PROFESSIONALS, BUILDING TRUST, RESPONSIBILITY AND COOPERATION.
I'D WELCOME ANY COMMENTS.
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I think our next key step is to be able to mash the messages of the "best of breed" curriculum & assessment speakers with our messages. I've spent a good amount of time deconstructing Willard Daggett's "rigor, relevance, relationships" stuff recently.
Thanks for sharing tonight!
The presentations had similarities, however, each presentation had valuable information that was only included in one and not the other.
Driving home, I spent much time considering his piece on trust and betrayal within accountability, his suggestion to adopt a mentality of responsibility as opposed to accountability and the climate of fear in institutions such as schools.
I have read quite a few John Abbott articles (www.21learn.org) and had recently been at a Dr. Lee Jenkins presentation. I had several questions I wanted to ask Dr. Hargreaves. He was kind enough to give me 20 minutes of his time to answer five questions. What a great discussion!
Within his presentation, I felt, the Powerpoint wavered from being useful tool. There were long periods of time where I had a choice of a bad view of the speaker or a slide that had been up for several minutes depicting an old advertisement for rubber galoshes.
Dr. Hargreaves and John Abbott both consider a viable European school and community model where students have higher success rates then our own. My question is: If this is what we want for ourselves, how are we going to stop the current social trends (working more and less family and community-time or complete exclusion there-from) and the worsening social climate in our local communities, to begin to build a much more inclusive model? This model would have to integrate schools, families and communities to be successful. Are Saskatchewan's School Community Councils a first step in this direction?
During Dr. Hargreaves keynote the focus was the future and improvement, however emerging technologies and their impact were not considered. It seemed to me as if we were discussing improving and meeting our emerging needs all within the context of a traditional educational system, ignoring the fact that our schools and the practice of education are changing. I did like his thought about embracing our past to then chart our future but what if our past knows nothing of our future? Am I wrong to have this impression?
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