Leading the Learning School for the 21st century

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Leading the Learning School for the 21st century
Leadership and Learning a lifelong journey..

• Jackie Beere, author, AST, Headteacher
• BSF Consultant, SIP, Independent Thinking Ltd

Brave heads and innovative teachers create
resilient, independent learners
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Spoonfed students cant cope with degrees Daily
Telegraph
Addicted to praise -wafer thin confidence - Dweck
50 of employers are worried about literacy and
numeracy but 70 are more worried about a lack of
emotional intelligence

• The illiterate of the 21st century are those that
  cant learn how to learn

More suicides, more depression, more self
harm Affluenza
If you have to try hard you must be thick!
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The zippies are here a new generation in the
emerging world

• Young Indian 15-25 years old
• Cool, confident and creative
• Oozes attitude and charm, ambition and aspiration
  shuns fear
• Outward looking, destination driven
• Competing for global careers against our children
  
• P.S . 54 of Indias population is under 25

From The World is Flat - Friedman
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2020 Vision Personalised Learning Ofsted

• Flexible curriculum
• Learning to learn non cognitive skills
• Assessment for learning/data
• ICT integral
• Testing when ready
• Navigating through more options 14-19
• Student ownership of learning
• Parental engagement

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Wanted Resilient, independent learners who
have flexible skills and competencies who can
work well in teams and lead themselves and others
to perform up to and beyond their potential.

• For the 21st Century Learning School

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Learning to learn what is it?
Excellence is not an art but a habit - Aristotle

• Developing a set of skills and habits that
  facilitate a self-awareness and resilience in
  learning.
• Being able to transfer skills and learning from
  one context to another
• Understanding how you as an individual learn best
  and knowing how to use this effectively
• HOW?
• By using metacognition (thinking about learning)
  to develop the above as part of the school
  experience

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Assessment for Learning formative assessment

• Self-peer assessment
• Sharing the criteria
• Focussed marking
• Tracking using data and setting regular targets
• Students are in control of their progress

Learning to learn
Formative assessment
EQ
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Essential Questions

• Subjects or skills?
• IQ or EQ?
• Teachers or coaches?
• Knowledge or competencies?
• Ages or stages?
• Classrooms or computers?
• Metacognition or rote learning?
• Summative exams or formative self-assessment?

• How can we help students acquire the habits of
  emotional intelligence that will create the drive
  to become a lifelong learner?

Get the best education then keep on learning..
Bill Gates
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SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning)

• The most important thing to have happened in
  education this century Andrew Curran, Consultant
  Neuro-scientist
• QCA
• Successful learners
• Confident Individuals
• Responsible Citizens
• A competency based curriculum???

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Cultivate intelligence through mastery of emotions

• Nurture the thinking that develops this view of
  learning

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Cultivating resilience?

• To encourage performance what would you do?
• Tell him you still think he is brilliant
• Tell him he didnt get it because he didnt
  deserve it
• Tell him worse things happen at sea and its not
  the end of the world
• Tell him he has such talent that he definitely
  has a fantastic future
• Tell him he was robbed

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Truth or Myth?

• Praise of able students fosters effort
• Belief in own high levels of intelligence fosters
  enterprise and creativity
• High ability students love working hard and dont
  want easy work
• Kids that have to try hard will not achieve as
  much as those who find it easy

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Which is more likely to be the most successful?
You believe.
OR

• Intelligence is fixed
• You need to be able to do it quickly and easily
  to prove you are clever
• You need to out perform others always
• Only thick people have to work hard to get good
  grades
• Avoid
• having to try too hard, high performing peers,
  setbacks and mistakes

• Intelligence is cultivated through learning
• You can become more clever the harder you try
• Its smart to engage fully with tasks, apply
  skills, make mistakes, make a big effort
• Its better to avoid easy stuff the harder and
  more impossible, the more it will grow your brain
• Feeling unsure and out of your comfort zone is
  exciting

Never hire the people with exceptionally high
grades..Tom Peters
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EQ - A different kind of intelligence...

• Persistence/resilience
• Deferred gratification
• Mood control
• Stress management
• Empathy
• Impulse control
• Optimism
• Self-management

EQ is common sense but not common practice
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Emotional Intelligence - the key to motivation

• A study of 15 global companies attributes 85-90
  of leadership success to emotional intelligence
  Chris Dyson, Hay Group UK 2000
• Towing them through the tests does not create
  independent emotionally intelligent students

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How does EQ create great teachers?

• Self aware/self disciplined
• Takes feedback, takes responsibility
• Learns from mistakes resilient
• Creative open to new ideas
• Reflective
• Curious about learning
• Uses variety, humour, novelty shamelessly
• Persistent - knows they can cultivate
  intelligence
• Self belief - they have a mission!

Easier to teach stuff than ways of thinking -
Gardner
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Teachers - whats the difference?

• Good
• Fount of knowledge filling empty vessels
• Didactic teacher guides students
• Teacher questions
• Outcome focus
• Intelligence is fixed
• Teacher talks

• Outstanding
• Facilitator
• Student centred activity
• Students construct questions/challenges
• Students co-designers
• Students judge success, self correcting
• Creative opportunities
• Success and failure equal partners for learning
• Reflection/ metacognition
• Develops habits/dispositions
• Language for learning

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Leadership. and beyond
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Ruled by our emotions

• The limbic system is our emotional hard drive.
• How we are made to feel by others is vital for
  health and happiness
• Our leaders can hijack our emotional state very
  easily
• Emotions are contagious. Mirroring can take
  place in non verbal situations
• The leader has the strongest impact on the
  emotional climate

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What EQ qualities do leaders need?

• Know themselves
• Read emotions
• Create rapport
• Project positive emotions
• Challenge and empower

D. Goleman Emotional Intelligence at Work
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Leadership EQ competencies

• Self awareness
• Emotional self awareness
• Self assessment
• Self confidence
• Self-disclosure

What drives me? What holds me back? What makes me
happy?
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Create your timeline
You started teaching
2008
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Leadership EQ competencies

• Self- management
• Self control
• Transparency
• Adaptability
• Achievement
• Initiative
• Optimism

How do you rate yourself?
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Leadership EQ competencies

• Social awareness
• Empathy
• Organisational awareness
• Service to clients

Are we good at all of these?
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Leadership EQ competencies

• Relationship Management
• Inspiration
• Influence
• Developing others
• Change catalyst
• Conflict management
• Teamwork and collaboration

Our biggest challenge as leaders??
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The challenges
Creating self-belief and self awareness
Creating resilience for learning
Managing our emotional state for optimum
performance..
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The ten habits of successful learners

• Take responsibility its down to you
• Have a goal
• Be brave, take risks
• Make mistakes ask for help
• Persist never give up
• Believe in yourself
• Get organised, learn to prioritise
• Be co-operative and generous to others
• Look after yourself
• BE OPTIMISTIC

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The seven habits of the 21st century learning
school???

• Heads are brave and driven by values
• Staff CPD is a top priority
• Teachers are inventive and flexible in their
  approaches facilitating, not delivering
  learning
• The curriculum creates learning experiences that
  connect with real life
• Students are nurtured to be independent and
  resilient in the face of challenges
• ICT is a tool of the trade and facilitates
  powerful community learning
• Assessment is formative and in the hands of the
  assessed

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• The Learning School
• What matters?

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Beware the complacency of our youth, confident
in the belief that the world will still revolve
around them in 2020
Leadership and learning a lifelong journey.
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Reading and resources

• Affluenza Oliver James
• The World is Flat Thomas Friedman
• Dumbing us Down John Taylor Gatto
• The Learners Toolkit Jackie Beere
• Creating the Learning School Middlewood,
  Parker, Beere
• Leadership for Mortals Dean Fink
• www.teachernet.gov.uk
• www.independentthinking.co.uk
• www.campaignforlearning.org
• jackie.beere_at_virgin.net

Thanks for listening