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Back To Module ListModule Main | Module Description | Instructional Outcomes | Instructional Proficiencies | Instructional EventsFacilitating Positive Attitudes Toward Collaborative Change: Module One Author Anita L. DeBoer, ED.D., Ball State UniversityModule Description General Description of Modules 1, 2, and 3. This three-part module is developed to enhance your knowledge and skills related to facilitating positive attitudes toward changing school environments. Given the legal and ethical requirements for including and educating, whenever and wherever possible, students with disabilities, gifted students, and ESL students in general-education classes with their age-appropriate peers, educators are required to significantly change how they think about and do instructional planning and delivery. Primarily, they have to work collaboratively with peers in their efforts to plan for the educational needs of ALL students in their classes.
General educators must also learn to manage change as they move increasingly toward interdisciplinary teaming. Interdisciplinary teaming means that teachers no longer work in isolation but must share responsibility for the success of ALL students in their schools with their colleagues.
While there are many elements to consider in all change processes, this three-part module focuses primarily on people in the change process. This focus is important for two reasons: It is the people within organizations who have missions, create visions, struggle with paradigms, select goals, write policies, design procedures, and engage in the best practices to facilitate change. Substantive change is unlikely to happen unless organizations make a concerted effort to: Identify and address people’s attitudes (beliefs, feelings, values, and behavior) toward a specific change, and respect and nurture people’s emotional needs prior to and during a change. This three-part module is organized into three units of instruction: MODULE ONE gives you (1) a new and useful perspective on the multifaceted issues and the difficulties ahead when you try to work collaboratively to implement required changes in your workplace, and (2) an understanding of why you do not always immediately embrace change efforts, especially when they are not initiated by you.
MODULE TWO introduces you to (1) an effective user-friendly construct for managing change. It is called the Seasons of Change (SoC) model, and (2) the typical behaviors and attitudes of colleagues who are dealing with the issues that need to be resolved in each season (stage). Recognizing these behaviors is critical if you wish to influence people’s thinking and eventually change behaviors, theirs and yours.
MODULE THREE describes in detail (1) the most appropriate strategies that you should use with colleagues who are experiencing the challenges of each season (stage), and (2) the strategies that you need to request of colleagues as they work with you during those times when they want you to change and you are resistant to the ideas or programs that are being advocated.
While it is highly recommended that you complete all three modules in the series, module one and module two could feasibly stand on their own. Module 3 must be preceded by module 2: Impact of Training/Professional Development.
Improve collaboration/coordination: The process by which people/organizations work together to accomplish a common mission. Instructional OutcomesAt the completion of Module One, you will:
Standard 8: Performances #4, #5, #7
Standard 9: Performances #1, #2, #3 To complete this module, you will need to:
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