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Leaders Adopt a Global View
“The government is developing us as international leaders. Australia has been isolated, very parochial. We have had very egocentric ways. Now we’re being encouraged to reach out, look at things globally.”
Wilma Culton, principal of Serpell Primary School in Australia.
Read more about Victoria’s blueprint for improvcation in “Victoria’s leading edge”
on p. 32.
Reform Elements and Interventions
| Poor to fair | Fair to good | Good to great | Great to excellent | |
| Focus | Achieving basic literacy and numeracy | Getting the system foundations in place | Shaping the professional | Learning through peers and innovation |
| Reform element | Providing scaffolding and motivation for low-skill teachers and principals | Data and accountability foundation | Raising caliber of existing teachers and principals | Raising caliber of entering teachers and principals |
| Example interventions | Prescriptive teaching materials
Technical skill building External coaches School visits by system leaders Instructional time on task |
Student assessments
Transparency to schools and/or public on school performance School inspections |
Inservice training programs
School-based coaching Career tracks Teacher community forums |
Collaborative practice among educators
Decentralizing pedagogical rights to schools and teachers Creating rotation and secondment programs across schools, and between the system level and schools |
| Selected systems | Chile, Madhya Pradesh, Minas Gerais, Western Cape, Ghana | Armenia, Chile, Hong Kong, Latvia, Poland, Singapore | England, Lithuania, Slovenia, South Korea | Hong Kong, South Korea, Ontario, Saxony, Singapore |
| Source: Mourshed, M., Chijioke, C., & Barber, M. (2010). How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better. London, England: McKinsey & Company. Available at https://mckinseyonsociety.com/how-the-worlds-most-improved-school-systems-keep-getting-better. |
Quotable
Leaders adopt a global view
“The government is developing us as international leaders. Australia has been isolated, very parochial. We have had very egocentric ways. Now we’re being encouraged to reach out, look at things globally.”
— Wilma Culton, principal of Serpell Primary School in Australia.
Read more about Victoria’s blueprint for improving education in “Victoria’s leading edge”
on p. 32.
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