TEACHER AGENCY AND LEADERSHIP IN CURRICULUM DESIGN INITIATIVES

TEACHER AGENCY AND LEADERSHIP IN CURRICULUM DESIGN INITIATIVES Asia Pacific Conference on Curriculum Studies and Instructional Designing 2019 University of Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam July 26 -27, 2019 Joel C. Javiniar, Ph. D. UP College of Education-Educational Administration

Outline: • The University of the Philippines and Transformative Moments for Philippine Education System • Curriculum Revision as Response to Transformative Moments • Teacher Agency and Transformative Leadership • Challenge Ahead

CURRICULUM REFORMS IN THE PHILIPPINES AS TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENTS

The world is in the throes of an epochal change, a transformation: one age is dying and a “new age” does not seem to have emerged. (Montuori & Donnelly, 2017)

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RA 10533: ENHANCED BASIC EDUCATION ACT OF 2013 • K to 12 GRADUATE: Empowered individual…Learner throughout Life…Competent to engage in work and be productive…Able to co-exist in fruitful harmony with local and global communities…Engaged in autonomous, creative, and critical thinking…Able and willing to transform others and one’s self.

CIRRICULUM REVISION

BACHELOR OF EDUCATION PROGRAM OUTCOMES A Design learner-centered and socio-culturally responsive instruction toward the development of socially engaged citizens B Craft teaching plans that reflect full grasp of the subject matter and sound educational principles C Engage in ethical teaching practices that are based on sound educational principles and professional standards D Evaluate instruction, including innovations, using appropriate tools and procedures E Conduct ethical research on relevant issues and concerns to inform educational programs, processes, and practices F Deliver extension services that respond to the educational needs of various stakeholders

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…it is not possible to have a teacherproof curriculum since teachers mediate the curriculum in ways which are often antithetical to policy intentions, leading to an implementation gap and often to unintended consequences. Priestley, M. , Biesta, G. J. J. , Philippou, S. & Robinson, S. (2015). The teacher and the curriculum: Exploring teacher agency.

the achievement of agency is always informed by past experience (professional and personal experience)…always orientated towards the future (shorter term and longer term objectives and values)…always enacted in a concrete situation (both constrained and supported by cultural, structural and material resources available to actors). Priestley, M. , Biesta, G. J. J. , Philippou, S. & Robinson, S. (2015). The teacher and the curriculum: Exploring teacher agency.

School leadership is second only to classroom teaching as an influence on pupil learning (Darling-Hammond & Ducommun, 2010). …not enough to know that ‘leadership matters’; it is also important to know what aspects of school leadership are more or less effective (Halasz, 2011).

TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP THEORY The basic premise of transformative leadership is that everyone can lead, and that particularly in this transformative moment, everybody contributes to, and in fact cocreates, the world we live in, whether conscious of their agency or not.

• • TL is “everyone, everywhere, everyday” leadership. Everyone can be a Transformative Leader. does not involve a specific type of person, position in any system; no privileged locus; no specific roles and lines of authority or a community; manifest in any context, crossing the divide between “public” and “private; ” proposes that “everyday” activities and small additional incremental actions can be transformative.

Transformative leadership bridges “Heroic Leadership” and “Leaderless Organizations. ” (Montuori & Donnelly 2017)

Creative Inquiry: Learning and Unlearning to Lead TL is a journey of exploration and creation; it is a journey into the unknown, where the future is a path laid down in walking that requires an ongoing process of creative inquiry. (Montuori & Donnelly 2017)

WITH TEACHER AGENCY, CREATIVE INQUIRY, AND TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP TO SEIZE THE TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENTS,