Positive Organizational Scholarship. Includes great tool for self evaluation under POS Teaching Materials/teaching tools - called the "Reflected Best Self Exercise"
"Teaching is a noble call that suffers when we practice in isolation and
flourishes when we work together, and at no time in history have we had the
tools we do today that allow us to work
together
for
the good of our children. When we take the time to learn and embrace these
tools, we grow as professionals-I can testify to that wholeheartedly."
Very thought provoking video that makes you question our societal assumptions, our economy, our hidden beliefs and curriculum. What do we really need to teach our children?
This blog post includes a link to great video called "Positively Autistic" that talks about turnign around our thinking - instead of thinking of our "deficits" can we start looking at our "assets" instead? And how does that change our parenting or teaching?
"Technological networks have transformed prominent businesses sectors: music, television, financial, manufacturing. Social networks, driven by technological networks, have similarly transformed communication, news, and personal interactions. Education sits at the social/technological nexus of change - primed for dramatic transformative change."
But most schools and classrooms will no longer be the central learning hubs they
are today. Today’s model of
schooling is to bring the learner to the knowledge—tomorrow we will bring the
knowledge to the learners. We must
recognize that schools and classrooms are becoming nodes in networked learning
communities. We must begin to
think about how to organize learning in networked communities and not limit
learning within the boundaries of classrooms and school buildings—which would be
to limit our thinking to what has been possible in the past in a single school
or node.
The new and more powerful opportunity
available to educators today is to use these
technologies to help
individuals collaboratively construct
networked learning
communities that will accelerate and augment
the community’s
learning, as well as each individual’s
learning.
We need to get rid of the circle and enable them to be learners in an open
learning environment (see Figure 5). One of the large “L’s”
in the diagram is the expert learner
Did the open space concept fail, or did we fail to prepare teachers who could
teach in an open space model? We changed the physical space in those buildings,
but because we continued to prepare most teachers as if the only way to teach is
using the solo, stand alone, self-contained, isolated classroom model—the open
space concept could not work
we have to prepare teachers very differently than we have in the past
Any organization that adopts a new technology without significant organizational
change is doomed to failure. You have to change the organization. You cannot
just add the technology
great article about how learning and school has or has not changed and what needs to be transformed to prepare for today and the future to meet the needs of students and teachers
Now if success in life were achieved with the help of others and some good luck, as Gladwell argues convincingly, would it not also make sense that failure follows a similar pattern? Can we really believe in the self-made failure when we can no longer believe in the simplistic explanation of the self-made success?