Sunday, December 24, 2017

Schools Can Change - The India Story

Schools Can Change: 
A Step-by-step Change Creation System for Building Innovative Schools and Increasing Student Learning
By- Dale W. Lick, Karl H. Clauset, Carlene U. Murphy
Corwin, 2013 | Pages - 225 
Free online resources with the book.

About the book
Genuine effective school improvement requires leaders and teachers to be part of a broad-based, creative change system that focuses on generating improved teacher practices for enhancing student learning. This guide provides a step-by-step, systemic approach to the change creation process.

How can we really create lasting change? By applying the Change Creation system! Learning community pioneers Dale Lick, Karl Clauset, and Carlene Murphy lead teachers, principals, and schools in this dynamic approach to school improvement. With a free, comprehensive online collection of practical resources, this book shows you how to: Develop the right vision, relationships, and culture to create and sustain change Model learning-inquiry cycles for action teams for success Build loyalty, trust, and responsibility within your teams and across the school. 

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About the Authors:
Dale W. Lick is President and Professor Emeritus at Florida State University, a former President of Georgia Southern University, University of Maine, and Florida State University, and, most recently, a University Professor at Florida State University, where he did research in the Learning Systems Institute and taught and directed doctoral students in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, and worked on educational and organizational projects involving transformational leadership, change creation, learning organizations, distance learning, school improvement, enhanced student performance, educational technology, new learning systems, strategic planning, and visioning.

Included in over 50 national and international biographical listings, Dr. Lick is the author or co-author of eight books and more than 100 professional articles, chapters and proceedings, and 285 original newspaper columns. His recent books are: Whole-Faculty Study Groups: A Powerful Way to Change Schools and Enhance Learning, 1998; Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Creating Student-Based Professional Development, 2001; Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Creating Professional Learning Communities That Target Student Learning, 2005; and The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Fieldbook: Lessens Learned and Best Practices From Classrooms, Districts, and Schools, 2007, all with Carlene U. Murphy, Corwin Press; Schoolwide Action Research for Professional Learning Communities: Improving Student Learning Through The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Approach, 2008, and Schools Can Change: A Step-By-Step Change Creation System for Building Innovative Schools and Increasing Student Learning, 2012, with Karl H. Clauset and Carlene U. Murphy, Corwin Press; and New Directions in Mentoring: Creating a Culture of Synergy, 1999, with Carol A. Mullen, Falmer Press (London), 1999.

Dr. Lick received B.S and M.S. degrees from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Riverside, all in Mathematics, and has three levels of certification in Leading and Managing Change from Conner Partners, Atlanta, GA. His alma maters have honored him with the Michigan State University 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award, and, on its 40th Anniversary in 1994, the University of California, Riverside, with the designation as One of 40 Alumni Who Make a Difference.

Tazeen Taxology

Abstract: This paper intends to explain the Model of Education“TazeenTaxology” approach to the implementation of the concepts in the classroom or I call it in a garden of knowledge. There are 9 approaches to it in inverted pyramid shape explaining the expanded view taking to the focus of the concepts with its results and follow ups.

Methodologies and Techniques:- The 9 Techniques are as follows:

  • Exploration
  • Identification
  • Description
  • Classification
  • Integrating similar Concept
  • Analyze
  • Apply
  • Results
  • Follow up

Exploration: The Concept delivery must first start with exploring of it's theme for example the child must explore the theme of the chapter first and then proceed with its concepts.

Identification: After exploring the theme of the Chapter, identity the topic to be delivered in the classroom.

Description: Describe the Identified topic in brief and explain its motive.

Classification: After Description Classify the topic in groups or themes.
Integrating similar Concept:- After classification group similar topics together. Integrate activities to the Concept

Analyze: Analyze the Concept activity and its Methods to delivery.

Apply: Apply the Concept and record the Application of the  process.

Results: Examine and record the results and follow revision Pattern

CONCLUSION 
It helps children in understanding the approach of the concept and its detailed learning with cognitive understanding of the concept with exploring and enhancing the intelligences of the child through concept integrated learning activities.

References:-
1. Bloom BS. Taxonomy of educational objectives: the classification of educational goals. New YorkNY: Longmans, Green; 1956.
2. Anderson LW, Krathwohl DR. A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: a revision of Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives. New YorkNY: Longmans; 2001.
3. Blanco MA, Capello CF, Dorsch JL, Perry GJ, Zanetti ML. A survey study of evidence-based medicine training in US and Canadian medical schools. J Med Lib Assoc. 2014 Jul

- Tazeen Jamal Siddiqui, fortazeen@gmail.com, Organisation: Mansha Educational Society

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