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Creating new curriculum and leading a pedagogical
change
Ari PokkaPresident
International Confederation of Principals
Paths of Educational change
• Education leaders in national and school level must be aware of changes in world education policy,
• Global world needs a global acts, which must be rewrite part of the national curriculum.
• Education is not a competition, but right movements gives a nation a possibillity to rise their standards in the world level.
Three things to remember
• Educational development is only possible if you:
• Invest pedagogical leadership and teachers training.
• Use your financial and human resources effectively
• Develop a whole school system, not jus one part of it.
Leading a pedagogical change
• Pedagogical change need a trustful relationship between education policy makers and school leaders.
• It need a common planning, ethical values and long term commitment to develop all the aspects of education system.
• It need a continuous evaluation, which is not punish the school, but encourage their own developing work.
Autonomy vs. control
• On the long run to rise an autonomy will be an effective way to rise educational standards.
• Autonomy need a good national guidelines, national curriculum and evaluation plan.
• Autonomy need a big investments to rise a quality of teachers and school leaders.
• SCHOOL AUTONOMY WILL PAY IT ALL BACK.
Leading a pedagogical change in school level
• The most important thing to manage educational change is always ask:
– How are we doing that?– What is a purpose– How it will be help our kids in the future?– How it develop school and education in big
picture?
Curriculum
• Curriculum is the main thing to rise educational standards and bring forth an educational changes.
• Pedagogical leadership is essential part of it, but we must remember that it is not only game of intellectual aims.
• Curriculum must be create so, that all the participants in learning community will understand its meanings.
Pedagogical leadership
• Pedagogical leadership is:• Develop and taking care of human resources• Create a new kind of learning environments• Using school funding and other material
resources effective way• Create a school culture where all the
participants can recognize moral and legal guidelines
Challenges
• Long term vs. short term planning – are somebody waiting for easy victories?
• World ranking – PISA and other worldwide assessments.
• How the society rise the standards in health and social services, family life etc. which a strongly related educational changes.
• How our youth see the meaning of education?
LAST
– We are not traveling because of the horses, but because we like to achieve our goals.
(Erno Paaslinna in his book Loneliness and Defiance)
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