AISWA MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP

For school leaders, Heads of Learning Areas

9.00 – 3.30, 9/10Nov2009

9.00 – 10.00 Keynote Speaker: Dr Marie Martin
Dr Marie Martin is a teacher by birth, archetype, training and experience. Marie has taught is a wide variety of settings and currently works with teachers and schools to focus on learning - whether that learning is by students, teachers, families or communities.
Generations of Teachers
The teaching workforce is changing. Baby Boomer teachers are idealists with a strong work ethic that revolves around taking responsibility and achieving financial security. Generation X teachers thrive on change, need to feel a sense of achievement and are seeking opportunities for career progression in a flexible work environment. Generation Y teachers are confident and optimistic, need to be involved in decisions and seek job variety and creativity.
What does this mean for us as colleagues in a staff and what does it mean for schools as we seek participation in developing school plans, committees and after hours activities? This session will explore differences between generations and provoke thinking about ways in which teachers can work more effectively together.

10.00 – 3.30Management workshop: Facilitator Nick Norris

Nick Norris is a specialist in management and leadership. He works extensively with organizations, communities and large systems, helping people to navigate the complex issues associated with leading and managing in modern organizations. He is a former principal.

Nick’s particular interests are in planning, leading and managing complex changes that cross traditional boundaries. His experience in this area spans thirty years, including involvement in mining, education, government administration and manufacturing, and assignments in both Europe and Australia. He is a highly skilled facilitator, who conducts advanced facilitator training to suit different contexts.

Aims

Participants will have the opportunity to:

  1. identify issues that are impacting on the performance of their role in their school
  2. explore a model that shows the relationship of leadership and management roles to school culture
  3. generate alternative strategies to solve an issue of concern by harnessing the collective knowledge and experience of the group
  4. plan to apply the new learning back at school

Workshop Process:

The process is interactive and facilitative. The content information is explored in discussion so that participants can relate it to the specific contexts of their schools.

  • Negotiation of participants expectations from the workshop
  • Management and leadership – working definitions drawn from the experience of people in the group
  • Competing Values Framework
  • What is school culture, and can we best measure/describe it?
  • Personal leadership profile
  • Discussion of the different organisational cultures in each school
  • Examination of leadership and management roles
  • Problem identification and practical problem solving arising from specific issues that the participants wish to address using the Competing Values concepts where appropriate.