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Date
Friday 15 February and Friday 15 March 2019
9.00 am - 3.30 pm
Venue
Education Centre
University of Otago College of Education
157 Lower Union Street, DUNEDIN
A two-day course in Dunedin (Friday 15 February and Friday 15 March 2019) that helps aspiring young leaders to make the transition from teacher to teacher leader (e.g teacher-in-charge / HOD / syndicate leader). A small in-school leadership investigation will be completed during the intervening weeks. Learning sessions focus on
Available to early childhood, primary, intermediate and secondary teachers.
Course Directors: Prof Ross Notman & Dr Sylvia Robertson
This one-day workshop builds on a successful workshop for primary school Assistant and Deputy Principals held in November 2018. The major purpose is to give senior educational leaders the opportunity to build leadership understandings, network, share leadership strategies and help set up an ongoing structure to support further AP/DP meetings in 2019 and 2020.
Directors: Dr Sylvia Robertson & Professor Ross Notman,
Centre for Educational Leadership and Administration
Programme, UOCE, Friday 3 May 2019
9.20 am
Welcome. Karakia. Outline of day’s programme. What do you need to know right now?
9.30 am
Professional Leadership
Understanding a group / school culture
10.30 am
Morning tea
10.50 am
· Managing change
11.30am
· Motivating others for success
12.15 pm
Lunch
1.00pm
Meeting the present and future needs of primary APs and DPs in Otago
2.30 pm
Summary: Where to from here?
3.00 pm
Conclusion
Dates
Time
Day 1: Wednesday 20 March 2019 Day 2: Wednesday 17 April 2019
Day 3: Wednesday 19 June 2019 Day 4: Wednesday 14 August 2019
9.00 am – 3.30 pm
Venue To Be Confirmed
Target Group
All leaders in primary, intermediate and secondary schools who wish to develop their ability to coach others.
A series of four facilitated professional learning sessions over the year, where participants will develop their own coaching capabilities, within a supportive community of practice. These learning sessions focus on:
Facilitator: Murray Fletcher (MEd. Admin Hons) is a very experienced facilitator and coach who is described as a’ narrative, developmental’ coach as he partners with both individuals and teams in schools and in workshop situations. Murray also presents and conducts workshops at National and International Coaching Conferences. His current doctoral study is focused on learning for leaders. He balances life with grounded labour on two hectares overlooking Blueskin Bay near Dunedin.
Day 1: Tuesday 12 March 2019 Day 2: Tuesday 9 April 2019
Day 3: Tuesday 11 June 2019 Day 4: Tuesday 6 August 2019
157 Lower Union Street, Dunedin
All leaders in primary, intermediate and secondary schools who wish to develop their ability to lead others
This popular four-day professional learning series is aimed at teachers whose role has them taking responsibility for ‘leading others.’ These four interconnected workshops (spread over the school year) set out to build ourselves as a community of practice. The focus of this learning opportunity is on “making a difference to the classroom next door” – your critical role in leading learning, influencing learning and teaching, creating and leading a professional learning team, and growing others in their leadership.
Key features of this professional learning:
· Takes a strengths-based approach - discovering ‘what is working’ already
· Inquiring into your own leadership practice, and how to grow others in their practice
· Focuses on learning-centred leadership practice that makes a difference to student
learning
· Developing yourself as a leader, your own beliefs and learning foundations
· Building understanding of people you lead
· Leading yourself and others through change and shifts
Facilitator: Murray Fletcher (MEd. Admin Hons) is a very experienced facilitator and leadership coach who focuses on leadership development with both individuals and teams in schools and in workshop situations. His current doctoral study is focused on learning for leaders. He balances life with grounded labour on two hectares overlooking Blueskin Bay near Dunedin.
Day 1: Wednesday 13 March 2019 Day 2: Wednesday 10 April 2019
Day 3: Wednesday 12 June 2019 Day 4: Wednesday 7 August 2019
This two-day workshop is targeted at primary and secondary school teachers who have at least one year’s teaching experience or who aspire to teacher leadership roles. The workshops link basic leadership concepts with practical school applications to give you understanding, skills and confidence to consider future leadership positions.
The two-day programme uses recent Australian and New Zealand research findings on school and teacher leadership, so that you can start thinking about your leadership approaches to:
Course Directors: Dr Sylvia Robertson and Professor Ross Notman
A series of four facilitated professional learning sessions over the year, where participants will develop their own coaching capabilities, within a community of practice.
“Coaching is seen as a significant, if not the most significant skillset for leaders, when focused on growing professional practice with others.” (Whitmore, 2010)
Leaders focus, at times, on conversations that ‘confront’practice. This is not coaching. Coaching conversations focus on ‘learner agency and learner responsibility taking’ in an air of partnership.
These learning sessions focus on:
This learning series is useful for both individuals who wish to grow their practice, and teams within schools that are intent on growing a culture of coaching.
One session will take place in each of term one and four and two sessions will be in term two. Participants will be asked to focus on ‘coaching practice’ within the context of their role and with an ‘inquiry in to practice’ approach, during term three.
Facilitator: Murray Fletcher
This one-day workshop is targeted at primary school leaders who undertake current Assistant Principal and Deputy Principal roles. The major purpose is to give senior educational leaders the opportunity to build leadership understandings, network, share leadership strategies and help set up an ongoing structure to support further AP/DP meetings in 2019.
Programme
Welcome and Introductions
9.35 am
Outline of day’s programme. What is “leadership”? How best to support you in your job?
9.40 am
Personal Leadership
· How your personal and professional values can impact on you as an educational leader [Ross Notman]
10.40 am
11.00 am
A Personal Philosophy of Leadership
· Linking your personal strengths to the new Leadership Strategy and Tu Rangatira [Dr Sylvia Robertson]
12.00 pm
1.00 pm
· Examples of where to find help for your leadership learning: NZEALS; Tertiary study (new Master of Education & Learning degree); CELA courses in teacher and middle leadership; coaching.
1.20 pm
Group discussions
What/who will meet your present and future learning needs: Content and skill development? Networking with other AP’s and DP’s? A meeting structure and organisation?
2.20 pm
Summary of future actions
Course Director: Professor Ross Notman is director of the Centre for Educational Leadership and Administration (CELA) at the University of Otago. He undertakes leadership consultancy work with teachers and boards of trustees, and lectures in classroom management and educational leadership at the College of Education. Ross regularly presents at New Zealand and international leadership conferences and research seminars.
This four-day workshop series is aimed at primary and secondary teachers whose role has them having responsibility for ‘leading others’.
These four interconnected workshops (spread over the school year) set out to build ourselves as a community of practice. The focus of this learning opportunity is on “making a difference to the classroom next door” – your critical role in leading learning, influencing learning and teaching, creating and leading a professional learning team, and growing others in their leadership.
Key features of the four workshops
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