Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’
Organisational constipation and the laxative style of leadership
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 8, 2011
In this day and age, organisational hierarchies are getting flatter and flatter, with decision-making devolved from traditional top-down levels of organisation to a more project-based responsibility. Of course, there’s a delicious irony with this and this is younger career-oriented ambitious folk, who are stoking the pressure for hierarchical change, do themselves expect recognition and promotion [...]
Inter professional dialogue as CPD
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 14, 2011
It sometimes strikes me, as I speak and network with other education professionals that we are rather insular in our approaches. Of course, many folk I’ve worked with went from school, to university, and straight into teaching as their chosen career, and have been teachers and educationalists ever since. However, certainly over the past few [...]
A Curriculum for Mediocrity ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 28, 2010
- In: AiFL | capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Inspection | LTS | Quality assurance | Research | sustainability
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Why top-down initiatives in education sometimes fail…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 25, 2009
- In: change | future of education | Leadership | Research
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An interesting letter in a recent edition of the Herald (Tuesday 23rd June) provides a much more objective view of the recent graduation of Scotland’s first teachers qualified to teach Mandarin, and the Confucius classroom ‘hub’ schools set up to further the teaching of Mandarin. In the letter, Prof. Stuart Picken argues that if Scotland [...]
When is central control not central control?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 9, 2008
- In: change | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | teaching and learning
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Answer – when it’s only a template, or so it seems…An interesting debate going on over on the GLOW Scotland blog about local authority approaches to rolling out GLOW. It appears I’ve ruffled a few Aberdonian feathers with my opinions on what I perceive to be a perhaps a more centralised way of doing things. [...]
Leading schools out of innovation fatigue
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 23, 2008
- In: Leadership
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Listen to staffroom chat or read the pages and discussion boards of TES and you appear to get, at face value anyway, a sense of staff feeling overloaded with one so-called initiative after another coming down from on high. Be it GLOW, AiFL, or ACfE, the sense of despair can be at times very real. Now having [...]
Change revisited
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 29, 2008
- In: GLOW | ICT | Leadership
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I recently came across an award-winning blog post from Karl Fisch which poses the following question… ‘Is it okay to be a technologically illiterate teacher ?’ Fisch is clearly of the opinion that it is not. He goes on to make this rather bold statement.. “If a teacher today is not technologically literate – and [...]
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