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Turning Doubters Into Believers: Confronting Resistance

Turning Doubters Into Believers: Confronting Resistance. Susan Pimentel. Turn Teachers from Doubters to Believers By:. 1. Creating a safe environment for grumbling 2. Running “Best Hopes - Worst Fears” exercises 3. Giving teachers time, lots of it

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Turning Doubters Into Believers: Confronting Resistance

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  1. Turning Doubters Into Believers:Confronting Resistance Susan Pimentel

  2. Turn Teachers from Doubters to Believers By: 1. Creating a safe environment for grumbling 2. Running “Best Hopes - Worst Fears” exercises 3. Giving teachers time, lots of it 4. Not assuming -- ask teachers what they need 5. Giving teachers something “real” to do with the standards

  3. Doubters to Believers, cont’d. 6. Providing incentives • Demonstrating your seriousness about standards (system’s approach) • Understanding “Change Theory” (A good book is, Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson) • Making sure their program directors are on board

  4. See handout on common comments you are likely to confront with some sample responses.

  5. Now for Program Directors:

  6. Introduce Program Directors to the Role of Instructional Leadership Qualities of Instructional leaders: • Have a vision. Set challenging goals. Monitor achievement. • Translate vision into action. Work as a team, emphasize school wide goals and expectations. • Provide and/or obtain the resources needed to accomplish the vision (i.e., materials, staff, information, or opportunity). • Create a supportive environment. Plan inservice. • Promote an academically-oriented, orderly, and purposeful instructional climate.

  7. Program Directors, cont’d. • Coordinate alignment of curriculum, instruction and assessment. • Teach occasionally. • Know what's going on in the program. Get into classrooms -- daily or at least weekly. Find out what teachers and students are doing and how well. Monitor student progress. • Create a culture of accountability.Set accountability measures for teachers and act on them. • Adopt a passion for student performance. Takes a combination of the right knowledge base, certain skills and attitudes, and the accomplishment of a set of tasks. . .

  8. Turn Program Directors into Believers • Meet with program directors regularly on issues of instructional leadership. • Set some specific goals for program directors as they relate to becoming an effective instructional leader. • Make Directors a target of your professional development efforts.

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