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Change Management for School Improvement. Comenius Course BV-2005-001 Prague, February 19-25, 2005. Comenius Courses. Supported by the European Commission. BASICS. Building Agency for School Improvement, Coherence and Sustainability.
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Change Management for School Improvement Comenius Course BV-2005-001 Prague, February 19-25, 2005
Comenius Courses Supported by the European Commission
BASICS Building Agency for School Improvement, Coherence and Sustainability
BASICS: A development project with a European added value • Development Project • Common frame of reference • Strategies & instruments • Professional development programmes • European added value • What do we have in common? • What can we learn from each other?
Partners • VSKO (BE) • AISIS (CZ) • Dublin City University, School of Education (IE) • Universita degli Studi del Molise (IT) • SOPO (NL) • Doskonalenia Kadr Oswiatowych (PL) • Utvicklingsheten (SE) • Zavod Republike Slovenije za solstvo (SI) • London University King’s College (UK)
Target group Change agents People who initiate, support and promote change in schools
PROBLEMS • Language • Terminology • Different contexts
Awareness of change Change as complex process Change as (organisational) learning Leadership Conditions for sustainable improvement The change process Reflection Interaction Thinking styles Dealing with resistance Instruments for several purposes Effective change strategies Course content
APPROACH AND METHOD OF DELIVERY • Practise what you preach • Limitations and opportunities • format • target group • tutors • resources
Correlation between Type of Instruction and Effective Learning Dochy, 2000
COURSE OBJECTIVESare for participants to… • develop an awareness of • the unavoidability of change • the need for proactive change management • develop an understanding of • the nature and the complexity of change • The link between change, learning and leadership • develop a set of skills and competences that change agents need to possess • be able to • deploy strategies to introduce, implement and institutionalise change • Intelligently use supporting instruments, and gear them to their specific needs and contexts • have the opportunity to confer with other change agents throughout Europe on matters of best practice