Quality work in learning organisations

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Quality work in learning organisations a
leadership challenge.

• Mats Ekholm
• University of Karlstad
• Sweden

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The basic ideas behind schools
Year 0
Year 2000
One that knows dessiminates to those that do not
know. Students learn by listening and by
following directives
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The basic ideas behind schools
Year 0
Year 2000
One that knows dessiminates to those that do not
know. Students learn by listening and by
following directives
Students learn by doing and reflecting. Teachers
support, help and challenge.
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Important factors in a school seen as a local
organisation

• Shared aims

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To know To be

• To think
• To feel
• To express
• To create
• To produce
• To decide
• To learn

• Independent
• Co-operative
• Tolerant
• Honest
• Aware
• Responsible
• To dare

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Important factors in a school seen as a local
organisation

• Shared aims
• Communication system
• Groupings
• Decision making system
• Time budget
• Norms
• Evaluation regularities
• Reward system

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The learning organisation

• Makes actions aimed at learning
• Observes itself and the reactions of others
• Analysis the outcomes of the actions
• Sorts out the lessons learned
• Keeps a memory and uses it in future situations

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Development of school results adjusted values
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Development of school results adjusted values
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Development of school results adjusted values
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Development of school results adjusted values
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The effect of school inspections
Differences between schools before and after
inspections in residual scores
Schools where the direction of the development Average score change Change in standard deviation (Number of schools, 187)
Did not change (47)
Became more positive (54)
Became more negative (86)
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The effect of school inspections
Differences between schools before and after
inspections in residual scores
Schools where the direction of the development Average score change Change in standard deviation (Number of schools, 187)
Did not change -0,03 2,10 (47)
Became more positive (54)
Became more negative (86)
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The effect of school inspections
Differences between schools before and after
inspections in residual scores
Schools where the direction of the development Average score change Change in standard deviation (Number of schools, 187)
Did not change - 0,03 2,10 (47)
Became more positive 4,07 2,94 (54)
Became more negative (86)
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The effect of school inspections
Differences between schools before and after
inspections in residual scores
Schools where the direction of the development Average score change Change in standard deviation (Number of schools, 187)
Did not change - 0,03 2,10 (47)
Became more positive 4,07 2,94 (54)
Became more negative - 4,13 3,25 (86)
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The effect of school inspections
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The effect of school inspections
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The effect of school inspections
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The effect of school inspections
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The effect of school inspections
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The enlarged effect of school inspections
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Teachers in the future will

• Continue to learn
• Deliver lessons
• Diagnose learning
• Lead learning
• Cooperate with adults
• Understand the local organisation
• Appear in the public space

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Tasks of the school leader

• To state the ideology of the school
• To structure time, tasks and people
• To direct evaluation work
• To show evident reactions
• To find adm. and economic solutions
• To identify the patterns of relations
• To work with conflicts
• To preserve as well as develop