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RETHINKING SCHOOLS

Dr Chris YappChris_yapp@hotmail.co.uk

Organisations in the modern world

Schools• 1960s

– My Primary 208– My Grammar 649

• 2012– Primaries >1000– Secondaries >2000

• Businesses 1960s– Major Employers

• Businesses 2012– SMEs– Freelance– Self-employed

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“Education has never had really effective links between research and practice. Education research is the great unreformed part of the system. Too little has an impact on children's learning, and too few teachers use research evidence to inform their teaching.”Estelle Morris, The Guardian, July 2011.

Plato

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

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Margaret Mead

“We must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.”

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The Assumptions

• A Pupil is in a class• With a teacher• Doing a Lesson• In a subject• For a Qualification• In a school• In a Community

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Examples: Education and Evidence

• Learning a foreign Language• Learning a text• Switching Tasks• Concentration

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Let me tell you a story....

First day at school...Parental learning contract

Example

On Paper Electronically

HistoryHomework

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HistoryHomework

Assessed asHistory

Assessed asHistory

Assessed asEnglish

IT is both..

• A cause of change– Social, economic, political

• A means of effecting change– New processes, virtual organisations, integrated supply

chains, work redesign..

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So which is it?

LearningLearning

TechnologyTechnology

VLEsVLEsWikisWikisBlogsBlogsPodcastsPodcastsElectronic WhiteboardsElectronic Whiteboards

LearningLearningTechnologyTechnology

A Vygotskian/Steiner/A Vygotskian/Steiner/Montessori/choose a guru/Montessori/choose a guru/ Learning platformLearning platform

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So the Real Impact of IT is...

• Blurring boundaries...

• Changing Scale

• Changing Scope

• Flexibility and Agility

• Integration...

• Personalisation• New roles• New Skills and

competencies

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Remember…

“It takes a village to educate a child”

A hypothesis?

• Learning always has been and always will be a personalised experience

• It is the organisation of education that has been impersonal

• The impediment has been economic scaleability• Technology is making personalisation achievable at

scale

The art and craft of the teacher has been to balance the needs of the learner and the system

What does this mean for schools?

• IT cannot be justified on pedagogical gains alone

• Schools and communities

• Rethinking the Teaching Professions

• Rethinking Curriculum• Rethinking Assessment• Rethinking Inspection

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The Changing Pattern of EducationThe Changing Pattern of Education

Traditional Phases

Education TrainingWork Retirement

Lifelong LearningEducation

Training

Work

Retirement

Community Learning Networks

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CommunitySchools

And

Colleges

Libraries

Cultural

centres

Leisure

Centres

Home

Office

Schools

And

Colleges

As the hubs

Of Connected

Learning

Communities

NETWORK

5 Levels of Transformation

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Extent of benefits

Degree of

Transformation

Local exploitation

Scope Redefinition

Network Redesign

Process Redesign

Internal IntegrationEvolutionary

RevolutionaryInternal

External

Source: MIT

Shamrock Organisation

Customer

CoreOrganisation

Contracted Fringe

Part-timeHelp

Source: Charles Handy

The Virtual Dimension

• iTunes U• TED• BBC Podcasts• …

School Networks

School 1

School 5

School 4School 3

School 2

ScienceFacilities

SportsFacilities

HumanitiesResources

ArtsFacilities

Language Lab

CommunityFacilities

CPDFacilities

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The Inherent Tension

Transmitting the best from generation to generation

Vs

Preparing for the Future

Vision and Values for the Systems of Learning• Filling the empty mind

And/or

• Lighting a fire

Raymond Williams

• Education for..–Understanding–Adapting to change–Authorship of change

Schools beyond Level 2…• Artist in non residence• CPD in staff room linked to HE• SAELN• E-twinning• E-homework/support• Automated MCQs• E-Portfolios• SMS reminders• …

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So, my challenge..

• How would teachers/schools describe the processes?• Level 3 and 4 schools?• “Shamrock” schools• Maximising resources to prime purposes– Schools as Action Learning Hubs

• Which metrics to focus on?• Ruthless automation of admin• Focus on time budget• Beyond school boundaries

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School Governance

Head of School

Head of Teaching and

Learning

Head ofCommunity

Head of Assessment

Head ofResources

Head ofStaff

Development

Learning as a Team Activity

Complex multidisciplinaryComplex multidisciplinaryProblem solving teamsProblem solving teams

Rather than gifted Rather than gifted individualsindividuals

What subject is this?What subject is this?“ “ If we create a GM rice that If we create a GM rice that

is enriched with Vitamin Ais enriched with Vitamin A we could reduce blindness in we could reduce blindness in

the developing world. Can the developing world. Can the West impose this the West impose this technology for their own technology for their own good?”good?”

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For Schools to be Learning Organisations…Teacher as lifelong learnerTeaching roles increasingly diverseLearning as a social experienceTeaching as a research-based professionTeaching and Learning team basedRich assessment systems for teachers and learnersPersonalised curriculum for teachers and learnersFocus on social inclusionGlobalisation/ localisation of learning

Thank You!

• Twitter: @chris_yapp• Email:

chris_yapp@hotmail.co.uk• Skype: cgyapp

• Blogs:• BCS• http://www.bcs.org/content/conBlog/20

• National Education Trust

• http://www.nationaleducationtrust.net/ArticlesPolicyDebate_SISL_000.php

• Long Finance• http://www.longfinance.net/long-

finance-blogs/the-pamphleteers.html

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