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    What creates the motivation to change?

    2 key factors influence teachers' willingness to modify their practice

    By Thomas Arnett
    February 2019
    Vol. 40 No. 1
    Laura loved teaching. She loved getting to know her kindergarten students, doing hands-on activities with them, and coming up with creative ideas for lesson plans. But when her district kicked off its blended learning program, she felt lost, confused, and anxious in her own classroom. As a blended learning teacher, she was supposed to incorporate online learning software into her reading and math lessons at least twice a week. But as someone with self-professed zero technical savvy, she felt petrified by the notion of using computers with her students. How could she help them use software she did not understand herself? How would she deal with the inevitable technical difficulties that could quickly derail her classroom management? Most important, how could she have confidence that

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    Thomas Arnett

    Thomas Arnett (tarnett@christenseninstitute.org) is senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute.

    References

    Arnett, T., Moesta, B., & Horn, M.H. (2018, September). The teacher’s quest for progress: How school leaders can motivate instructional innovation. Clayton Christensen Institute. Available at www.christenseninstitute.org/publications/teachers-jobs-to-be-done.

    Christensen, C.M., Dillon, K., Hall, T., & Duncan, D.S. (2016). Competing against luck: The story of innovation and customer choice. New York, NY: HarperCollins.


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