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Advice and First Steps for Educational Leaders to Lead by Example
Please provide Advice, First Steps, or Next Steps to Educational Leaders (superintendents and principals and other key leaders) on what he or she must do to lead by example to further 21st century learning for students and staff.
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Listen and collaborate! Gathering a group of educators, parents, and students to implement change is powerful! Listening helps the group remain strong.
Administrators lead better by being experimenters of technology themselves. Let teachers see you "playing with the toys" so they know you will experiment too.
In order to lead by example, administrators must take part in the same trainings as teachers and become tech-savvy themselves. Learn all you can about tech.
Become tech savvy. Understand teachers want strategies and ideas that they can use in their classrooms, so provide them with content specific PD. Find experts.
You need to tell staff that you are going to take some chances learning about tevchnology. And that your expectation is that staff will do the same.
Find other leaders who are already doing the work you want to do. Ask questions, read their posts, blogs, etc.
Encourage a culture of risk taking and forward failure. Everything is about leadership. Use the tools that you expect teachers to use. Build a PLN.
Support innovation
PD with Best Practices
Encourage Authentic Learning
Lead by Example
Tech is a tool not a teacher
Teach to their needs not yours
Take risks, be a catalyst for innovation, and lead by example. Check out my blog for other ideas http://esheninger.blogspot.com
Lead by example, use Glogster as a weekly communication tool.
Use a Blog as a weekly communicator
Ask a teacher to introduce you to his/her favorite widget. Better yet, visit the class and be a student!
Support training efforts by encouraging staff to attend and participate yourself. Use Web 2.0 tools such as blogs or podcasts to communicate.
Teachers want TIME and PPD (practical professional development) to learn about these tools and become comfortable with using them. Model their use.
Use Web 2.0 tools for day to day tasks e.g use a wiki for weekly Staff Briefing. Move away from using paper for communication with Staff & embrace other tools
Offer suggestions on how current projects could be enhanced or send teachers links with examples for inspiration. Model web 2.0 tools during in PD.
Share your baby steps and showcase the efforts of others on your staff. That way it may look like a stampede of baby steps.
Learn one tool at a time and don't worry that your colleagues know more...you will get there--take baby steps!
Begin your exploration& make up your own mind. Most of your teachers are beginners at technology and they'll listen to other beginners! BE authentic, inclusive.
The best ways to get teachers "into" web2.0 is by having them explore it on their own terms. Set up a blog and have them describe various sites by a date
link
Learn about Web 2.0 technologies and use some yourself. Then, show your staff what's out there and provide them with training and support.
You have to "geek" a little. Folks need to hear you talking about "your network." They need to see you using it. They need tangible examples of RoI (time).
Conduct PD using the instructional strategies and technology tools that we expect teachers to use in the classrooms.