Leadership registration

2019 Developing Influential Teacher Leaders

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

• The impact of teachers’ personal and professional values
• Understanding how to get the best out of a group’s culture
• How to motivate other people for success
• Encouraging high performance in others’ teaching practice
• Leading engagement with students.

Available to early childhood, primary, intermediate and secondary teachers.

Course Directors: Prof Ross Notman & Dr Sylvia Robertson

2019 Leadership for Primary Assistant and Deputy Principals

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

2019 Leading Others Through Relational Coaching - Christchurch

 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:

• Building personal capabilities in facilitative listening and asking powerful questions
• Understanding and applying coaching frameworks as focused strategies
•  Understanding and applying personalised approaches that focus on the ‘self’ and the ‘other’
• Applying coaching ‘habits’ in the context of ‘everyday’
• Exploring and applying coaching within the context of ‘appraisal’ and ‘professional practice growth’
• Co- coaching in teams
• Growing personal coaching dispositions.

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.

2019 Leading People: Relationships Matter! - Dunedin

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.

2109 Leading Others Through Relational Coaching - Dunedin

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:

• Building personal capabilities in facilitative listening and asking powerful questions
• Understanding and applying coaching frameworks as focused strategies
•  Understanding and applying personalised approaches that focus on the ‘self’ and the ‘other’
• Applying coaching ‘habits’ in the context of ‘everyday’
• Exploring and applying coaching within the context of ‘appraisal’ and ‘professional practice growth’
• Co- coaching in teams
• Growing personal coaching dispositions.

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.

Becoming a Teacher Leader - Dunedin

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:

• Working with students – aiming for teaching and learning excellence
• Working with other teachers and students – school learning communities; interpersonal relationships; school culture; helping others manage change
• A focus on self – your core personal and professional values, ability to self-reflect and to plan ahead

Course Directors: Dr Sylvia Robertson and Professor Ross Notman

Growing Coaching Capabilities - Dunedin

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:

• Building personal capabilities in facilitative listening and asking powerful questions
• Understanding and applying coaching frameworks as focused strategies
• Understanding and applying personalised approaches that focus on the ‘self’ and the ‘other’
• Applying coaching ‘habits’ in the context of ‘everyday’
• Exploring and applying coaching within the context of ‘appraisal’ and ‘professional practice growth’
• Co- coaching in teams
• Growing personal coaching dispositions

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

Growing Coaching Capabilities - Invercargill

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:

• Building personal capabilities in facilitative listening and asking powerful questions
• Understanding and applying coaching frameworks as focused strategies
• Understanding and applying personalised approaches that focus on the ‘self’ and the ‘other’
• Applying coaching ‘habits’ in the context of ‘everyday’
• Exploring and applying coaching within the context of ‘appraisal’ and ‘professional practice growth’
• Co- coaching in teams
• Growing personal coaching dispositions

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

Leadership for Primary APs & DPs

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

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.

Leading for Influence and Impact - Central Otago

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

• Take  a strengths-based approach 
• Focus on learning-centred practice as leaders - that makes a difference to student learning
• Inquiring into your own practice, leadership and how to grow others in their practice
• Developing yourself as a leader, your own beliefs and learning foundations
• Building understanding of people you lead
• Leading change in professional practice
• Developing your ability to have evidence-informed learning conversations

Facilitator: Murray Fletcher

Leading for Influence and Impact - Dunedin

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

• Take a strengths-based approach
• Focus on learning-centred practice as leaders - that makes a difference to student learning
• Inquiring into your own practice, leadership and how to grow others in their practice
• Developing yourself as a leader, your own beliefs and learning foundations
• Building understanding of people you lead
• Leading change in professional practice
• Developing your ability to have evidence-informed learning conversations

Facilitator: Murray Fletcher