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Andy Hargraeves
Andrew (Andy) Hargreaves (born 13 February 1951) is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. The mission of the Chair is to promote social justice and connect theory and practice in education.
Andy Hargraeves
The one decisive that affects learner behaviour is not the curriculum, nor the textbook, nor the method of instruction, nor any organizational arrangement. Its the person of the teacher.
Change management
To be a teacher can be a lonely business. Nothing changed. Certainty was the main issue. Half the neighteens everything changed! (curriculum ICT teaching methods) Teachers were not prepared for that. Schools must be the centre of society. (Tradition-Honor-Discipline-Exelence Death Poets Society)
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The society is always at the move. When something bad happens, governments always ask: what will schools do about it?
Theoretical Approach
Marcus Buckingham www.marcusbuckingh am.com British-American Go put your strengthts to work. Movie: discover your stengths
Three myths
Myth 1: As you grow, personality changes
70% of the people are sharing that thought. Transformation stories are very strong. From poor to rich From stupied to smart People like those stories. They sell very good!
Myth 2 You grow the most in your areas of great weaknesses. Therefor we put our energy in weaknesses because we think that this attitude is smart.
An example
Three myths
You grow most in your areas of graetest strengths
Tiger Woods
Shaquille ONeil
Leadership is not about looking for weaknesses but discovering strengths and encouraging the teachers to develop those strengths. Its more effective to improve your strengths. Build on my strengths and manage around my weaknesses. Never call weaknesses areas of great upportunity
Third myth
A great member puts his strengths aside and does whatever it takes to help the team. - sheep mentality - Ive never been asked - If I begin to do that
A great team member volunteers his strengths to the team most of the time. A headteacher need to know what his team member is good at. Teachers need to know what their children are good at.
Strengths are not activities that you can do very well but activities that give you power!
Strengths are concrete Talk about your strengths without braging. Talk about your weaknesses without whining. Put your energie in working on sterngths.
During one week you write down what you loved doing and what you hated.
SIGN
S from SUCCES
Those activities you are not only good at but you have to love them. Otherwise it will be a curse! Because youre good in it they will give you more and more of the same job. The story of Yentl
SIGN
I from Instinct
The activities that you desire to do. The activities that give you energy.
SIGN
G from Growth
Time flies when are doing them. Each time you are getting better in what you are already good at.
SIGN
N from Needs
After such an activity you are tired but not empty The job asks energy but also gives you energy. You are effective in what you are doing.
SIGN
Strength declaration
On the end of the week you write down three strength declarations. Focus each week on one of those declarations and try to improve them. Nobody sits around waiting for somebody who puts his energy in his weaknesses.
Risks
Strengths will not always lead to succes. You have to learn to accept that. A sportsman cant win each competition. A strength declaration can fail because someone from the team dont understand your strength and sees it as an excuse to give the dirty job to a younger teacher or a new colleague
SUCCES!