Theme-based Workshop on Managing Change - Implementing and Sustaining the Change through Staff Recruitment, Deployment, Development and Appraisal (Webinar)

Date :

26 March 2021 (Friday)

Time :

2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Mode :

Webinar

Objectives :

• To explore how administrative tasks such as staff recruitment, deployment, development and appraisal can be used to nurture teachers' leadership capabilities, advance the professional knowledge and skills of their colleagues, and subsequently improve student learning and teaching

• To help teachers develop effective curriculum leadership skills to manage people

2:30 pm - 2:40 pm

Introducing Kotter's Change Model (Steps 7-8) and how staff recruitment, deployment, development and appraisal could create opportunities for implementing and sustaining change at school

2:40 pm - 3:00 pm

• Explaining the steps to recruit new staff

• Sharing tips on how to use SWOT effectively to identify a school's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

3:00 pm - 3:40 pm

• Introducing the Hersey-Blanchard model to stress the importance of situational leadership when delegating duties

• Using real-life examples from Baptist (Sha Tin Wai) Lui Ming Choi Primary School to illustrate how the Panel Head delegated duties in the panel effectively

• Providing an opportunity for participants of the CLD programme to discuss how they would delegate the task of setting exam papers

3:40 pm - 3:45 pm

3:45 pm - 4:15 pm

Sharing a case on how the curriculum leaders in Lok Sin Tong Yu Kan Hing Secondary School drew up and implemented their school-based staff development plan to manage the curriculum change on e-learning

4:15 pm - 4:55 pm

• Analysing some common causes of the difficulties/problems encountered when doing staff appraisals and exploring coping strategies

• Observing a simulated meeting and identifying the skills/strategies the appraiser used to conduct an effective appraisal meeting

4:55 pm - 5:00 pm

• Recapping how the staff recruitment-deployment-development-appraisal cycle could be treated as an integral management process to inform school and subject planning

• Highlighting the importance of moral leadership -- curriculum leaders as moral leaders to attract, develop and retain a critical mass of quality staff to provide quality education to students