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Phase 1: Clarify goals, expectations, and policy priorities. How are your goals, expectations & policy priorities aligning to deliver on your vision ?. What research says…. “Over the past decade, many countries have spent significant time, energy, and resources
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How are your goals, expectations & policy priorities aligning to deliver on your vision?
What research says… “Over the past decade, many countries have spent significant time, energy, and resources to design e-strategies which often remained blue prints, or white elephants because no systematic set of indicators had been agreed upon and established to monitor and evaluate their implementation” World Bank
Why have so many ICT initiatives in the past have limited impact? • Not policy initiatives but projects— policy in bits and pieces • Current policies are replaced by the newgovernment • The policy underpinning the initiative focuses onlyonICT • The policy provides a short-termstrategy without a sense of where this will go in the long-term • ICT policies are too often based on incorrectassumptions, which create unrealisticexpectations for what can be realistically achieved. • The policy is organizationallyisolated • The policy does not specify measurablegoals • Researchers describe a gap between rhetoric in government policy and reality of educationpractice
Key question: How will you develop goals that will effectively measure the extent to which you are meeting your objectives and delivering on your vision?
Leadership that focuses on 21st century skillsMaster Plan #3 Singapore First, strengthen competencies for self-directed, collaborative, learning. (SDL & CoL) Second, tailor learning experiences according to the way that each student learns best. Third, encourage students to go deeper and advance their learning. Fourth, learn anywhere. …and, strategies to achieve these goals… Dr Ng Eng Hen then Minister for Education ,2008
Singapore Source: The ICT Connection http://ictconnection.edumail.sg
Core focus on 21st century skills Singapore Source: The ICT Connection http://ictconnection.edumail.sg
Core focus on 21st century skills Singapore Source: The ICT Connection http://ictconnection.edumail.sg
5E model for level of ICT usage CREATING Singapore EVALUATING Deep EMPOWER Learners take control of learning through use of ICT, deciding to some extent what and/or how they learn ANALYSING EXTEND Process of learning is changed through learners’ use of ICT, resulting in the possibility of learners learning more than teacher intended APPLYING ENHANCE Deepen learning through learners’ hands-on use of ICT UNDERSTANDING Learning ENRICH Engage learners by teacher’s use of richer mix of media to make lessons more interesting and vivid REMEMBERING EXCHANGE Swap traditional practices with ICT 5E Model: Crescent Girls’ School, Singapore Shallow Active Learner engagement Passive Teacher centred Learner centred Source: Crescent Girls’ School, Singapore
Critical Conversations How will you develop goals that will effectively measure the extent to which you are meeting your objectives and delivering on your vision? Clarify Goals, Expectations, and Policy Priorities
Five questions of “deliverology” Clear priorities, specific, measurable goals. Clear, practical plans which are used regularly and updated. Good, steady, close to real-time data on key indicators. Monitoring routines (such as stocktake meetings with all key involved). Agreed actions, followed up, tested in practice and refined if necessary. Always try something. Never neglect a problem once identified. Constant ambition, refusal to give up. Focus on the goals, no distractions. Maintaining the routines. Analysis and problem-solving where required. Bringing to bear lessons from elsewhere. What are you trying to do? How are you trying to do it? How, at any given moment, will you know whether you on track? If you are not on track, what are you going to do about it? Can we help? Barber, M. (2008), Instruction to Deliver: Fighting to transform Britain’s public services; Barber, M. et al (2010), Deliverology 101.
Strategic Planning Discussion What will change look like for us? Guiding Questions • What does an innovative school look like here? • Is there a time requirement for a school day, term, or year – can it be changed? • What learning outcomes, curriculum requirements need to be used /developed? • What are the minimum qualifications/expectations for new and existing teachers? • What policies exist/need to be changed, enhanced or developed to ensure the vision allows for responsible and effective execution? • What impact will the vision have on teacher requirements and expectations? • What impact will the vision have on income, costs and parents?
Quality Assurance Planning Discussion What are indicators of sussessful transformation for our schools? Guiding Questions • How can a school measure its success and with what metrics? • Are we settling for incrementalimprovements when we could be introducing innovation that will fundamentally transform learning? • Does the vision reflect expectations and philosophies? • What personalizedtraining and professional development requirements should be considered? • What benchmarking needs to be implemented to evaluate pre and post the implementation of the vision? • What are the KeyPerformanceIndicators? • What process will be delivered to ensure QualityAssurance – content, professional development, leadership, academic results? • What % of the education budget relates to 21stcenturylearning? • Are we targeting change in toofew or toomany areas?
Quality Assurance: Monitoring and Evaluation to Inform Practice and Leadership QA “should be an integral component of any planned ICT in education program and should be factored into planning before a project starts.” James & Miller – World Bank Handbook on monitoring & evaluation in ICT in education projects
