Schools Educating Leaders

for aSustainable Future

The Future of Learning

The Future of LearningInsight for ChangeA Future Perspective

The technology will happen as teachers and schools adapt and adopt as we always have in our search to make learning happen.

What is more important is the philosophy and ethos of the school in its role as guardian and guarantor and as a formator of the future. The answer to this question directs the what and how of teaching both now and in the future

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Hong Kong has some of the best and brightest secondary school students in the world. The world they inherit will require them to succeed where previous generations failed, that is to solve some of the immediate critical issues

- access to adequate food and water This will depend on every gram of leadership, at whatever level, to ensure the next generation use their talents for the betterment of others, that is, in the pursuit of a sustainable, compassionate, and just world.

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What will future teaching & learning look like?

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What will future teaching & learning look like?

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Electronic inventions

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Electronic inventions

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Organizations as systemsLiving within systems

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What will future teaching & learning look like?

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What will future teaching & learning look like?

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What will future teaching & learning look like?

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What will future teaching & learning look like?

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Major Themes•Schools as incubators - formators of future leaders

•Schools as leadership enablers•Schools as guardians and guarantors of the values

and norms cherished by society based on values and a sense of mystery•Schools delivering leadership based on the 21st

Century Learning Framework•Schools delivering leadership for future human

flourishing- responsible sustainable behaviours

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Educating Students to be Future LeadersWhat is Leadership?

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Educating Students to be Future Leaders

What is Leadership?

The Forbes magazine defines leadership as

“a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task",

or in its ontological form, a leader is someone who gets people to realize their own future.

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What is Leadership

Lao Tzu defines leadership as

“when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves”

Someone who plants seeds (ideas) and helps them grow (service). Leaders are people who do ‘stuff’ and make ‘stuff’ happen not by doing it all themselves but by making it possible for others to make it happen.

The nurturing of intellect shared, international mindedness, language, and diplomacy.

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Given the global challenges the world faces, every gram of leadership, at whatever level, in every human organization, has to be nurtured so that it can engender positive change. (P. Lynch 2009)

La Salle College students breathe in the air, the ethos, that they will make an impact, that they will lead at some level.

[2007 Russell Bishop; 2003 Adrienne Alton-Lee; 2009 Viviane Robinson]

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Can schools educate students to be future leaders?

Yes, I believe schools are institutions that- plant seed’s,- provide opportunities and experiences,- act as incubators and safe zones for leadership to be

- accepted for often leaders are those that do not aspire to leadership

- trialed and tested- values and principles nurtured

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Can schools educate students to be future leaders?Yes

- Global research has identified indicators which have a high correlation with high achieving students – students that become leaders. The most significant indicator is –

a quality relationship between teacher and student [Teachers contribute up to 60% to student outcomes. (Best Evidence Synthesis, 2003)]

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Schools are very important in educating students to be future leaders. It is for this reason schools have a moral responsibility to be conscious of the minds they are forming and the values they are passing on –

values which they believe are essential for human flourishing.

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Schools can be understood as learning communities where learning is an attitude as well as an activity, a way of life, as well as a process.

“We are what we do” (Aristotle)

Schools need to retain a sense of awe through the role of myth and mystery.

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Future Leaders of what? In what way?

Education today must, I believe, provide opportunities for students to develop a sense of

their responsibility for the world

and its sustainability

and equality of access to its resources

so that all humanity can flourish.

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North – South – East – West

All have different cultural strengths.

Students in the ‘confucianist’ South East Asia belt have unique traits which are expressed in unique leadership skills and competencies.

Schools ought to identify these and nurture them so that in collaborative contexts across borders these qualities can grow.

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Boys and the 21st Century Leaders

Rowe (2003) argues that there has been a change in pedagogy in schools from a lineal, logic paradigm around formulae to a higher level of operational learning based on skills and competencies embedded in verbal reasoning, communication, and collaboration.

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Dr Bradley from the ‘Boys’ Schools Coalition’ describes successful boys’ schools as ‘meat and potatoes’ kind of schools, with no particular taste for trendy quiche and sprouts.

Excellent boys’ schools routinely speak of civility, perseverance, teamwork, fair play; that virtue is to be valued more than brute force – well rounded. Boys’ Schools Know Boys. www.theibsc.org

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A quality education today must be interpreted in the context of a global education.

• Influenced by the United Nation’s Delores Report, nations and education jurisdictions individually and collectively are framing national educational goals that will provide students success in the new global economy to ensure nations are able to develop and prosper

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The United Nations and the 21st Century Learning Framework

The United Nations Vision for Education (Delores)

- quality, seamless, and lifelong

- encompassing the 4 competencies

1. Learning how to learn

2. Learning for citizenship

3. Learning for relating (emotion/communication)

4. Learning problem solving (teams/collaboration)

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1. Learning & Innovation Skills – these skills prepare students for increasingly complex life and work environments and involve

(i) creativity and innovation;(ii) critical thinking and

problem solving;(iii) communication and

collaboration.

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2. Information, Media, and Technology Skills – these are the skills that utilize ICT tools to aid

communication and collaboration i.e (i) to be able to access and evaluate information critically,(ii) use information accurately and creatively;(iii) understand how media messages are constructed and

for what purpose; (iv) create media products using digital technologies and

conventions appropriate to cultural contexts; (v) apply technology effectively.

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3. Life & Career Skills – tomorrows life and work contexts require more than just

knowledge and thinking skills but also (i) flexibility and adaptability;(ii) initiative and self-direction;(iii) social and cross-cultural skills;(iv) productivity and accountability;(v) leadership and responsibility.

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Schools Educating Leaders for a Sustainable Future -1. Promoting formative relationships between good teachers

and students2. Providing a ‘values base’ from which students moral and

ethical thinking and practice can be contextualized – logic and reason in context

3. Promoting faith (wholeness), service, and community4. Opportunities to experience and experiment with

leadership – an ethos and a praxis5. High expectations and encouragement back to pure

science, research, problem solving and innovation

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Schools Educating Leaders for a Sustainable Future -6. Exposing students to countries, cultures and languages7. Promotion of languages (English, Putonghua, Spanish)8. Promotion of ‘student exchange’ programmes9. Attention to the 21st Century Learning Outcomes

Framework10.Belief in a sustainable future and that our students are able

to achieve it.

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The Future of LearningInsight for ChangeA Future Perspective

The technology will happen as teachers and schools adapt and adopt as we always have in our search to make learning happen.

What is more important is the philosophy and ethos of the school in its role as guardian and guarantor and as a formator of the future. The answer to this question directs the what and how of teaching both now and in the future

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