Conference presentation
School Leaders’ Stories of Practice regarding systemic and school-wide adoption of a pedagogical framework
2014 Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) Conference Program, p.51
Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) Conference: Passion and Purpose: Setting the Learning Agenda, 2014 (Melbourne, Australia, 01-Oct-2014–03-Oct-2014)
Australian Council for Educational Leaders
2014
Abstract
The Stories of Practice research project commenced during 2013, with Education Queensland teachers, administrators, Principals and regional managers cooperating with researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast in order to determine effectiveness of the adoption of Marzano's (2007) Art and Science of Teaching (ASoT) pedagogical framework within the region. The research questions focussed on how learning and teaching has changed for educators and administrators at the regional level, and how this has changed for students, teachers, and administrators across individual schools involved. This study is grounded on an 'interpretivist paradigm' (Given, 2008; Orlikowski & Baroudi, 1991; Taber, 2009) and the methodology implemented was a story -based technique - the Most Significant Change (Davies & Dart, 2005; Dart, 2003). This presentation focuses on the school leaders' and regional managers' perspectives of the success or the perceived inadequacies of the adopted pedagogical approach. The findings demonstrate positive changes of increased collaboration, consistency, strong leadership, the development of a common language, involvement in professional development, greater strategic vision for pedagogical focus, expectations of the learning process, opportunity for individual interpretation of ASoT and improved teacher effectiveness. Challenges identified in the stories involved resistance, timemanagement, variable leadership effectiveness and inconsistencies in implementation.
Details
- Title
- School Leaders’ Stories of Practice regarding systemic and school-wide adoption of a pedagogical framework
- Authors
- Susan E Simon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringDeborah Heck (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringMichael Christie (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringKatrina Higgins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
- Publication details
- 2014 Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) Conference Program, p.51
- Conference details
- Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) Conference: Passion and Purpose: Setting the Learning Agenda, 2014 (Melbourne, Australia, 01-Oct-2014–03-Oct-2014)
- Publisher
- Australian Council for Educational Leaders
- Date published
- 2014
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2014 The Authors. Reproduced here with permission.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education - Legacy; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448794402621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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