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Innovation In School
Effective innovations were rooted in whole-school understandings and beliefs.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
What is an Innovative Culture?
An Innovative Culture is a nurturing environment.
All employees (learners and educators) are motivated to try new things.
In an innovative culture, innovators are encouraged and rewarded.
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.
Innovation is doing new things.
"we have not prepared ourselves for the rate of change or the consequences of change," "aren't looking at the reality of our current context but
instead are looking at education as they wish it was and as it used to be".
The thing that kills me about education is that it’s so touchy-feely. CCE say, ’Well, you know, test scores don’t take into account creativity and the love of
learning.’ Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don’t know how to read, I don’t care how
creative you are. You’re not doing your job.” …at least two types of innovation
• Entirely new ideas
• Re-working of an old idea or the transferring and embedding of existing ideas in to a new setting
the nature of innovation ….?
Incremental Innovation
•Minor modifications to existing product
•Swims with the tide
•Starts with the present and works forward
School improvement ?
Radical Innovation
•Significant breakthrough representing major shift in design
•Swims against the tide
•Starts with the future and works backwards
Transformation ?
From presentation by Valerie Hannon, Innovations Unit
The Nature of Innovation
Incremental Innovation
Radical Innovation
LEVEL of INNOVATION
Near to existing
practices
Far from existing
practices
David Hargreaves (2003)
Next Practice Innovation ModelSTIMULATING INCUBATING ACCELERATING
Analyse need
Scan the horizon
Seek innovators
Generate creative options
Support the leadership of change
Broker relationships and alliances
Create communities of practice
Utilise knowledge
management techniques
Synthesise evaluation &
research
Accelerate diffusion
with system agendas
Ideas for Next
Practice Field Trials
Models of Next
Practice in Action
System-level reflection & intervention
Local level action
System learning
Modified from Innovation Unit (UK)
Focus on:
Developing a learning orientation within teaching as a profession and across education systems;
Building teacher capacity to problem identify, problem solve, analyse and research from within the context of their classrooms;
Engaging teachers in school improvement through a focus on developing and innovating on good practice;
How can you use your expertise to contribute to the outcomes desired for students and the teaching profession?
Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and
apply it to what they feel is important. They must make what they learn a part of themselves.
Knowledge Creation and Innovation in
Classroom
Nobel laureate economist Friedrich Hayek argues that nearly every person has unique information that can be put to use only with his ‘active cooperation’
Convergence in Learning
Neuroscience
Information Technology
Assessment
Learners
Diagnosis, Response and “Treatment”