Transcript Kid, WebQuests, and the Big6: Perfect Together

UBUNTU:LEADERSHIP FOR
DIFFICULT- TO- INCLUDE LEARNERS
© Presentation by
Professor Loretta Giorcelli
< www.doctorg.org>
1. Address: <[email protected]>
2. Subject line:
Cape Town Monday 11-07-05
2. Include one inclusive practice in
your setting with school details for
website
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Three Great Leaders
Hippocrates
Plato
Socrates
Responsibility -Humanity- Community
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Responsibility -HumanityCommunity
Fairness does not mean everyone
gets the same
Fairness means that everyone gets what
he or she needs
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-Responsibility
-Humanity
- Community
Society needs permission to
understand any act of social justice
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Good Leaders Nurture the Development
of Social Justice in their schools
• What Are the Things We Need
To Change This Year?
• What Are the Things We Need
To Change This Term?
• What Are the Things I Need
To Change About Myself As Leader?
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What are some obstacles to
change in schools?
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Leadership style
Scoping
Quality of professional development
Generation gap
Time
Nature of change in schools
Teacher resistance to change
Information Overload
Obstacle #1 – Leadership
Transactional or Transformational
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Maintains status quo
Managerial approach
Concerned with
internal environments
Defines tasks
Provides rewards
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Works toward a
shared vision
Works with external
and internal
environments
Maps new directions
Recognizes change is
imminent
Locates and provides
resources
Obstacle #2 –Scoping
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Understanding the change landscape
Knowing when some traditional practices
MUST change (eg assumption of segregation)
Helping staff accept diversity
Reading about Leadership/ current research
Finding a mentor/support group
Letting go of old habits that fail to serve
Facing personal F&I
Obstacle #3 Quality of PD
Not helpful to the transformative nature
of change required
 Lack of scaffolding for diverse learners
 Erroneous focus on linearity/traditional
hegemonic practices
 Differentiation* taught as an add-on
instead of in context
 Too much: focus-neutral
 Too little-focus free
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(Ref: <www.help4teachers.com>)
Obstacle #4 – Generation Gap
Inclusion v Segregation
1. Learners today represent wide diversity!
2. Generational issues: Children of the book
teaching children of the screen
3. Some staff may still be working within a
“NIMBY” framework (Protected chn teaching
included chn)
4. Leaders need to be aware of faculty tensions in
dealing with learning & behaviour issues
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5. OSP issues
Obstacle #5 - Time-the old enemy!!!
1. Care for yourself
2. Work as part of a team
3. Grow with technology
4. Understand parental needs etc
Wise leaders make careful decisions about what to fight for,
what to cling to and what to set aside
Obstacle #6 – CHANGE IN SCHOOLS
Takes time, care, shared credit and
accountability
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Obstacle #7 – Teacher Resistance
No-one likes change
other than a baby with a wet nappy!
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Obstacle #7: Information Overload
Today, a daily New York Times
has more information in it than a
person would come across in an
entire lifetime in the 17th C.
David Lewis “Introduction to Dying for Information,”
www.reuters.com/rbb/research/dfiforframe.htm, 1996
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The Solution?
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Speed things up?
Pack in more and more content?
Add more technology?
Ignore your team members?
Get rid of hard-to -include learners??
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The results>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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The Solution?
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Alternative Solutions
Focus on people as well as processes
Don’t waste time on resistors
Don’t sweat the small stuff…it’s all small
stuff!
Leadership is tough!
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CHANGING ROLE OF SCHOOL LEADERS
1. Leaders must change from the sage on the
stage to the guide on the side.
2. Leaders must be informed and articulate
about the changes they want
3. Leaders must be able to lead change
4. Leaders must reconcile parent voice
5. Leaders must abandon hegemony
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It’s All About Change!
FULLAN FRAMEWORK:
1. Reculturing
2. Restructuring
3. Networking
4. External facilitation
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Change means using the
Big 3
Beginning - Plan
Middle - Do
End - Review
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CHANGE MEANS ASKING
CHALLENGING
QUESTIONS
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What’s the best kind of
WebQuest for kindergartners?
“Give them a shovel, a rake, and a
package of seeds. Take them outside.
Let them plant a garden, and watch it
grow.”
Tom March
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And remember…
THE 3 FACES OF LEADERSHIP
Idolized
 Criticized
 Ostracized
So always do right by the
invisible leader…the child!
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Ref: Christopher J. Hegarty “7
Secrets of Exceptional Leadership”
1. The goal of some LEADERS is
to cause people to feel reverence for the leader
2. The goal of the EXCEPTIONAL LEADER is
to cause people to feel reverence for
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themselves
My simple contention is that:
3. The goal of the
EXTRAORDINARY (educational) LEADER
is to cause people to feel reverence for young
people…even the most challenging!
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SECTION 2
Difficult -to-Include Learners
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Learning vulnerabilities
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Self-regulation difficulties
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Challenging behaviour
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Mental health fragilities
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Disengaged learners
PRINCIPLES OF UNIVERSAL
DESIGN
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PUD shift paradigms for teaching and learning in four
fundamental ways:
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Students fall along a continuum of
learner differences
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Teacher adjustments should occur
for all students not just those with
special learning needs
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PRINCIPLES OF UNIVERSAL
DESIGN
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Curriculum materials should be varied
and diverse
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Instead of making the learner adjust to the
curriculum the curriculum should be flexible
enough to accommodate learner differences
Ref: <www.cast.org>
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5-6%
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Ref: McCarney, S. (1996)
PRIM FOR BEHAVIOR DIFFICULTIES
Hawthorne Pubs
Ref: The Tough Kid Tool box
Ginger Rhodes
Sopris West Pubs
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Individualized
Intensive
Interventions
Social and Emotional
Teaching Strategies
Preventive Practices
Building Positive Relationships
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LEADER’S ROLE IN ESTABLISHING
POSITIVE SCHOOL CLIMATE
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Be visible, articulate and available
Model expected courtesies
Gather resources
Establish parameters
Set up discussion groups for parents
Support teachers
MAKE LINKS WITH OPs
Mentor students
Celebrate change…as it begins to occur!
Difficult-to-include learners need help to
differentiate between pro and anti-social
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behaviours
Enhance Emotional Literacy
Difficult-to-include learners often lack the
ability to recognise, label and understand feelings
in one’s self and in others
(Ref: Denham,1986; Webster-Stratton,1999)
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Enhancing Emotional Literacy
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Establish a feelings
vocabulary
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Learn words for
different feelings
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Learn how to
recognize feelings in
self and others
Affectionate
Agreeable
Annoyed
Awful
Bored
Brave
Calm
Capable
Caring
Cheerful
Clumsy
Confused
Comfortable
Cooperative
Creative
Cruel
Curious
Depressed
Disappointed
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Disgusted
Ecstatic
Embarrassed
Enjoying
Excited
Fantastic
Fearful
Fed-up
Free
Friendly
Frustrated
Gentle
Generous
Guilty
Ignored
Impatient
Important
Interested
Jealous
Joyful
Lonely
Lost
Loving
Overwhelmed
Peaceful
Pleasant
Proud
Relaxed
Relieved
Safe Satisfied
Sensitive
Serious
Shy Stressed
Strong
Stubborn
Tense
Thoughtful
Thrilled
Troubled
Unafraid
Uncomfortable
Weary
Worried
Ref:Joseph 2001;
Ridgeway, Walters &
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You can have
more than one
feeling about
something
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You can feel differently from
someone else about the
same thing
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It is what you do with them that
counts
Ref: <www.chadd.org>
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Ref: Coloroso,B Through the Tough Times
•Peer awareness of diversity
•Peer acceptance of differentiation
(Ref:
CHECK OUT WORK OF CAROL TOMLINSON)
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Recognize and comment when children remain calm
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Ref: Wragg, J. Talk Sense to Yourself. ACER
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Ref: <www behaviorAdvisor.com>
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Ref: <www.disciplinehelp.com>
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Anticipate challenges
Provide resources/ pd
Support staff through slippage
Encourage all learners
Promote parental involvement
Introduce “wraparound” principles
for difficult cases (Ref: Lucille Eber)
Celebrate change in behaviours!
WRAPAROUND (Eber, 1999---)
 No
blame-no shame
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past baggage
 Futures
orientation
 Solutions
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driven
DON’T REINVENT THE WHEEL!!
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TRIBES Curriculum
The Anti-Bias Curriculum
The Tough Kid Tool box series
PRIM (5 versions)
Raising Resilient Children
ACCEPTS program (Walker)
ACCESS Program (Walker)
Ref: 53www.silvereye.com.au
Read
Learn
Share
Grow
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You must be the change
you want to bring about
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Dr Loretta Giorcelli
<www.doctorg.org>
[email protected]
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1. Write to me at <[email protected]>
with this subject line:
Cape Town Monday 11-07-05
2. Include at least one inclusive
practice in your setting with school
details for website
53
Professor Loretta Giorcelli
<www.doctorg.org>
[email protected]