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Paul Stock – iNET Wales Programme Coordinator
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Effective networking
‘Educational transformation demands networks of educators, schools, students, parents and support agencies. Networks facilitate the transfer of knowledge and practice and has the potential to make every teacher an innovator’ Hargreaves 2004
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1.Agree the drivers of a successful GLP network
2.Overview of the lessons learnt from within SSAT and
iNet ‘school to school’ networks
3.Creating the right conditions for successful networking -
what you will do and how
Session Aims
Development Education in practice
Effective networking & leading global learning Name:School:
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Effective networking & leading global learning
Notes to support My thoughts
Key drivers of a successful network: •The importance of the focus •Collaboration is the key•Attitude to risk must be common across partner institutions•Evidencing impact and unpicking what is transferable
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What is a network? ‘A network….. is a group of organisations working together to solve problems or issues that are too large for any one organisation to handle on its own.’
Priscilla Wohlstetter, 2003
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Make a visual representation of a successful network
ACTIVITY
Network structures
Centralised
Decentralised
The 3 D’s Model
DecentralisedDisciplinedDistributed
But there was a 4th ‘D’ – Dialogue
The importance of the focus
• Lack of prescription from anyone
• A clear focus on classroom practice and/or
raising achievement encourages buy-in at all
levels
• Added value
Sharing Good Practice = haphazard scattering of pre-defined and well honed practice to possible adopters
Joint Practice Development
= teachers working closely together to improve practice beyond present quality, all within a far better distribution system
‘Learning new ways of working through mutual engagement that opens up and shares practice with others’ Michael Fielding et al. 2013
Consider JPD in GLP(W) networks• Working for common interests – select a priority area and an area
that is not working well• Using complimentary skills and expertise of the members of the
group• Brainstorm possible ways forward• Involve stakeholders• Be comfortable to ‘fail’ until some breakthrough is reached• Challenge and push for further innovation and development• Approach from the position of:
o What can I offer?o What do I want to learn?o What aspect of teaching and learning am I content with?o What can I offer a partner schools?o What can I learn from a partner school?o What aspect of teaching and learning are we content with?
Collaboration is key• Supports previous work in this area
• Collaboration needs to take place within the school and across the network
• Requires recognition of the mix of individuals
Attitude to risk must be common across partner institutions
• The greater the risk taken the greater the collaboration
• Sharing risk across a network
• Support from an external organisation can act as a catalyst
Low
Leverage
Exhaustion
Burn Out
Tokenism
High Leverage
Teacher energy
Low High
Impact
High
Low
• What is the added value for teachers?• What is the added value for students?• What are the transaction costs?• What are the opportunity costs?• Is there a danger of work overload?
Benefits and costs of networks
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Sharing what works: knowledge ‘transfer’
After Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995
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Dialogue
Learning by doing
Socializationsympathised knowledge
Externalizationconceptual knowledge
Internalizationoperational knowledge
Combinationsystemic knowledge
Tacit knowledge Explicit knowledge
to
from
Tacit knowledge
Explicit knowledge
Sharing experience Networking
Refine, enhance and embedStart with research
or idea Reflect and refine
Refine, enhance and embed Lead others
The LP pathway
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ACTIVITY-Fox’s Thinking Tool
How can you build and engage a network?(write on single card then present to group)
As a group agree the top five ideas and write in the middle of the doughnut
What can you do with the network? (write on single card then present to group)
As a group agree top 10 ideas and write on outside of doughnut
Networking Top Tips
• Types of Network• Establishing a Global Learning Network• Organising Network Meetings• Sustaining the Network• Celebrating the Network
Development Education in practice
Effective networking & leading global learning Name:School:
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Effective networking & leading global learning
Notes to support My thoughts
Key drivers of a successful network: •The importance of the focus •Collaboration is the key•Attitude to risk must be common across partner institutions•Evidencing impact and unpicking what is transferable
1. 2.
3.
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1.Agree the drivers of a successful GLP network
2.Overview of the lessons learnt from within SSAT
and iNet ‘school to school’ networks
3.Creating the right conditions for successful
networking - what you will do and how
Session Aims
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