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)