November 2013 Rudy de Jonge Headmaster De Smalle - Brugge

Andy Hargraeves

Andrew (Andy) Hargreaves (born 13 February 1951) is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. The mission of the Chair is to promote social justice and connect theory and practice in education.

Andy Hargraeves

The one decisive that affects learner behaviour is not the curriculum, nor the textbook, nor the method of instruction, nor any organizational arrangement. Its the person of the teacher.

Change management
To be a teacher can be a lonely business. Nothing changed. Certainty was the main issue. Half the neighteens everything changed! (curriculum ICT teaching methods) Teachers were not prepared for that. Schools must be the centre of society. (Tradition-Honor-Discipline-Exelence Death Poets Society)

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The society is always at the move. When something bad happens, governments always ask: what will schools do about it?

Theoretical Approach

Marcus Buckingham www.marcusbuckingh am.com British-American Go put your strengthts to work. Movie: discover your stengths

Work with your strengths

Everybody is differend. People with families can observe this on a daily basis

Work with your strengths

Where do you excel? We are linving in a world focused on weaknesses. (70%) Improve your strengths to cope with your weaknesses. We are living in a remedeal world: we study diseases to learn about health To study a healthy mind we study depression To learn about good mariages whe study divorces

Work with your strengths

We learn that good is the opposite of bad. The opposite of bad is not bad and that is something different from brilliant. You only learn about excellence by studying excellence. 40.000 studies about depression 400 studies about happiness

Work with your strengths

Teachers and children have to learn what their strengths are. Children know very early what they whant to become in their lives.

Work with your strengths

Inspection: the quality of good education goes hand in hand with how the school can cope with weaknesses. A good school has a plan for the weakest. Waterfall system

Three myths
Myth 1: As you grow, personality changes

70% of the people are sharing that thought. Transformation stories are very strong. From poor to rich From stupied to smart People like those stories. They sell very good!

As you grow, you become more of who you already are.

Go to a reunion Watch your own children My brother Robert

Myth 2 You grow the most in your areas of great weaknesses. Therefor we put our energy in weaknesses because we think that this attitude is smart.

An example

A pupil arrives at home with the following school results:

Reading 9/10 Writing 8/10 History 8/10 Mathematics 4/10 What will you as a parent do?

Three myths
You grow most in your areas of graetest strengths
Tiger Woods

Shaquille ONeil

Leadership is not about looking for weaknesses but discovering strengths and encouraging the teachers to develop those strengths. Its more effective to improve your strengths. Build on my strengths and manage around my weaknesses. Never call weaknesses areas of great upportunity

Third myth
A great member puts his strengths aside and does whatever it takes to help the team. - sheep mentality - Ive never been asked - If I begin to do that

A great team member volunteers his strengths to the team most of the time. A headteacher need to know what his team member is good at. Teachers need to know what their children are good at.

What are strengths?

Only a few people know their own strengths. Sometimes people are too vague

I love working with people Im a social person Im a very good listener

What are strengths?

Strengths are not activities that you can do very well but activities that give you power!
Strengths are concrete Talk about your strengths without braging. Talk about your weaknesses without whining. Put your energie in working on sterngths.

What are your strengths?

If you need some help, you can count on me. I can listen and I can give advise. Im creative and I love to decorate my classroom and the school in general. I have lists in my head when we have to organise festivities.

What are your strengths?

Give me the microphone! In critical situations I always stay calm and I can take the right decisions. A leader has a vision

How do you find your strengths?

Internet: Strength finder SIGN

During one week you write down what you loved doing and what you hated.

SIGN

S from SUCCES
Those activities you are not only good at but you have to love them. Otherwise it will be a curse! Because youre good in it they will give you more and more of the same job. The story of Yentl

SIGN

I from Instinct
The activities that you desire to do. The activities that give you energy.

SIGN

G from Growth
Time flies when are doing them. Each time you are getting better in what you are already good at.

SIGN

N from Needs
After such an activity you are tired but not empty The job asks energy but also gives you energy. You are effective in what you are doing.

SIGN

In SIGN the I, G and N determines the S

If you can conclude that the activities give instinct, theres growth, needs but no succes we know a word for those activities: Look in I loved it three activities that you liked the most. There is no other authority than you

Strength declaration
On the end of the week you write down three strength declarations. Focus each week on one of those declarations and try to improve them. Nobody sits around waiting for somebody who puts his energy in his weaknesses.

Risks
Strengths will not always lead to succes. You have to learn to accept that. A sportsman cant win each competition. A strength declaration can fail because someone from the team dont understand your strength and sees it as an excuse to give the dirty job to a younger teacher or a new colleague

Super Mega Knap

SUCCES!