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Managing Personal Change
Dynamics of the Change Process
Managing Personal Change
Identify what is in your control to change.
Identify your options.
Create a support system.
Examine your attitude.
Remain flexible.
Give yourself a break.
Strive to achieve balance and perspectives.
Exercise #7 - Leading and Managing Change
Here are three articles on change. Read one article of your choice (more if you have time - they are all very interesting) and then come up with a plan as to changes you are going to make to enable you yourself to better handle the changes occurring in special education and education in general. Provide an outline / timeline of your plan.
Leading Change from the Classroom:
Teachers As leaders
Create Quantum Change:
Incrementally!
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Dynamics of the Change Process
Michael Fullan has outlined eight lessons concerning the dynamics of the change process. They are as follows:
Lesson One:
You can't mandate what matters. (The more complex the change, the less you can force it.)
Lesson Two:
Change is a journey, not a blueprint. (Change is non-linear, loaded with uncertainty and excitement and sometimes perverse.)
Lesson Three:
Problems are our friends. (Problems are inevitable and you can't learn without them.)
Lesson Four:
Vision and strategic planning come later. (Premature visions and planning blind.)
Lesson Five:
Individualism and collectivism must have equal power. (There are no one-sided solutions to isolation and group think.)
Lesson Six:
Neither centralization nor decentralization works. (Both top down and bottom up strategies are necessary.)
Lesson Seven:
Connection with the wider environment is critical for success. (The best organization learns externally as well as internally.)
Lesson Eight:
Every person is a change agent. (Change is too important to leave to the experts; personal mind set and mastery is the ultimate protection.)
"There is a pattern underlying the eight lessons of dynamic change and it concerns one's ability to work with polar opposites: simultaneously pushing for change while allowing self-learning to unfold; being prepared for a journey of uncertainty; seeing problems as sources of creative resolutions; having a vision, but not being blinded by it; valuing the individual and the group; incorporating centralizing and decentralizing forces; being internally cohesive but externally oriented; and valuing, personal change agent as the route to system change."
Michael Fullan
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