יום חמישי, 2 באוקטובר 2014

To lead an Anthropogogic change/ part 2


This article is based on Michael Fullan/ Six Secrets of Change (2008)
1.    Love your employees
2.    Connect peers with purpose
3.    Capacity building prevails
4.    Learning is the work
5.    Transparency rules
6.    System learn

3.    Capacity building prevails
Capacity building concerns competencies, resources, and motivation. Anthropogogical leaders must continue to develop capacity in all stakeholders while always anticipating the next course of action. Anthropogogical leaders successful in sustaining school improvement build capacity for leadership within the organization. According to Golan, Anthropogogy has four basic principles:
The independent learner: the perception of oneself as an independent entity. A person sees him/herself as someone who is self-directed; choosing what to learn, how much and how to learn it.
Adapting learning to that person's needs: the person is ready to learn when he/she needs that specific learning process, and it is incorporated into daily tasks and social functioning. He/she sees that the learning process serves his/her personal development.
Renovating learning: People approach learning in possession of their life experiences. For learning to be more significant, the learner needs to connect the current learning knowledge with his/her prior knowledge. Thus the person who teaches should renovate learning.
Immediate and practical learning: The main motive for human learning is for problem solving. The learner has a need for the immediate application of the learned material, so learning has to be more focused in giving solutions to the particular problem.  Learning which cannot be implemented immediately is perceived as a waste of time. The effectiveness of distributed leadership resides in the human potential available to be released within an organization, an emergent property of a group or network of individuals in which group members pool their expertise.

4.    Learning is the work
Successful growth itself is accomplished when the culture of the school supports the day-to-day learning of teachers engaged in improving what they do in the classroom and school. Leaders must not only be creative in finding time for teachers to engage in Professional development during the day, but they also must consistently model lifelong learning themselves. The Anthropogogical leader helps the people discover the unknown without repeating information about the known as a lifelong process. Digital leadership dictates that learning is first and foremost.

5.    Transparency environment
Clarity and Transparency environment allow lifelong process. Ongoing data, access to seeing effective practices, sharing innovation for others to learn from, and embracing significant learning model are necessary for success. Anthropogogical leaders have the means to continuously tell their story to key stakeholders. Sharing more information will increase engagement in the change process. Peer's observation is equally important when it comes to leaders sharing and seeing the work of their peers.

6.    System learn
Continuous learning depends on developing many leaders in the school in order to enhance continuity. Step 6 in the significant learning model is Teaching- Using the Anthropogogy model to teach the other. The learner becomes the leader ("new Anthropogogical leader"). The learner uses his/her personal experience as a role model and teaches the other using his/her own unique identity. He/ She applies the Anthropogogy model to lead a new learner to significant learning. The result of Step 6: continuity of the learning process according to the Anthropogogy model to achieve significant learning for the learner and for the leader. It also depends on schools being confident in the face of complexity and open to new ideas. An idea that has been tested successfully elsewhere is adapted to meet the unique characteristics of one's own school or district.

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