New! NQT Conference 2005

‘Managing Change Successfully' with Dr. Peter Boshier

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Overview

If one thing is inevitable in your first year, it is that things are constantly changing and never seem to stay the same. Often, just when you feel that you have grasped something, and seem to be doing it right, the goalposts move. Very frustrating.

The pace of change in today's schools can be rapid and can often take you by surprise. From larger things handed down by the Government and the SMT, to smaller things such as changes in uniform rules or homework diaries, coping with all this change can be challenging to say the least.

When you consider that all this change is happening at a time when you are finding your feet and aiming to make your mark in your classes and the wider school community then it is no wonder that things can – and do – become confusing.

This breakout offers valuable advice for helping you to face whatever your first year throws at you. It gives you the skills and confidence to manage change successfully, without wanting to curl up in a heap.

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Key points

•  The nature of change. Is it inevitable? Is it always for the good? If so, for whom?

•  Managing change successfully. When you are told to change something. When you want to change something. Managing resistance – the enemy within.

•  Embracing change. Change and power. The emotional effects of change. Mission and strategy. Agreement and understanding. Flexibility and…change!

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About your trainer

Peter Boshier is certainly an expert at managing change. In a career that has seen him as a college principal, tutor, tutor-trainer, manager, consultant and researcher, he has both initiated change, and, like most of us, has had it forced upon him.

Now working as an independent educational training consultant, Peter is keen to share the change management skills and techniques he has used to such success. He understands the rapid pace of change that today's NQTs face, which is sometimes even harder to cope with at a time when so many other new things are happening to you, and you are trying to get yourself established with your students and the rest of the teaching staff.

As Peter says, “All teachers manage change – it's a question of degree!”

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