Change is an inevitable part of organizational life and
if you have any
leadership role, you'll soon be called
upon to help lead it. But, we often fear change.
This leads to resistance. So,
managing and leading
change is a challenging role. It will take you
outside
of your comfort zone and beyond your existing
management and
supervision tool-set.
But change is predictable.
You can anticipate how
people will respond, and what
you need to do to engage them positively.
You can plan, prepare, and handle the resistance
that will certainly
come. To do that, you need
practical tools and models.
Research Content
1-Introduction
1-The Research Vision, Mission and Objectives
The vision is (Developing our Education system)..
The mission is Doing research theses about active
learning.
The Objectives are:Solving problems that arise
from education Curriculum which creates passive
learners that can't solve problems.
2-A problem needs a solution
We
faced a problem that needs a an urgent solution.
The problem is: We,
the researching group, noticed
that the learning outcomes of high
schools and
colleges are low.Learners learn through recitation,
learning
by heart. They don't use their critical
thinking skills.
It has been known for decades that teachers
can have a profound effect on the students they teach.
Education policies can make a significant difference
in a teacher’s work, which in turn affects their students.
When expert
teachers are actively engaged in the
development of education policy and
initiatives,
achieving the intended outcomes and avoiding
unintended
consequences is more likely.
3-Reasons for the research:
The
reason for doing such research is that I and my
colleagues noticed that
some organizations did not
work as efficiently as they could, and
senior managers
have encountered various problems. Complaints
were
numerous. People worked in terms of only
firm accountability and
punishment.
There was no vision, no mission, no objectives,
no team
work, no love or respect and no good
performance. We have been asked to
estimate
the situation, analyze it, and come up with solutions
which
could increase efficiency and productivity;
in other words, increase
organizational performance.
The teachers worked individually without any
collaboration with their
managers or school leaders
Teachers did't like change.
They used
traditional method of teaching like the
GTM method. Learners were just
listeners or stores
waiting for being filled with some information that
were learnt by heart.
Learners knew nothing about any critical thinking
like practice, analysis, synthesis, evaluation,
imagination, creation
or innovation. They didn't use
technology in learning. There were no
meeting
areas between the organization managers and the
people who working with them.
4- The researching questions:
How
do organizational leadership, active learning,
and communication affect
productivity and efficiency
of schools and educational organization?
How we make education organizations perform well
and learning outcomes high?
5-The problem solutions
Employers, Headteachers, Teachers, and employees
must learn academically and practice actually the
roles
played by the activity-based learning methods
and leave the GTM method of teaching.
6-Objectives:
1- To study the different teaching learning strategies
in language learning.
2- To study the perception of teachers regarding
use of activity based strategy in language teaching.
3-To use critical thinking
4-To observe, experience, collect data and find a
solution for rhe problem through team work.
Why activity based learning method?
In the process of learning, learners
experience,
memorize and understand. Students need to be
provided with data and
materials necessary to focus
their thinking and interaction in the lesson for
the
process of analyzing the information.
Teachers need to be actively involved
in directing
and guiding the students’ analysis of the information.
The GTM Method:
In the traditional approach to college teaching,
most class time is
spent with the professor lecturing
and the students watching and
listening.
The teacher translates the text and explains the
grammatical
structure without any practice.
It is a teacher -centered learning
method.
The students work individually on assignments,
and cooperation is
discouraged.
In the traditional approach to college teaching, most
class time is
spent with the professor lecturing and
the students watching and
listening. The students
work individually on assignments, and
cooperation
is discouraged.
Role of a Teacher
A planner, an organizer and evaluator.
Facilitator.
Decision maker.
Knowledge
Disciplinarian
Active learning:
Student-centered learning, also known as
learner-centered education, broadly encompasses
methods of teaching that shift the focus of instruction
from the teacher to the student.
In original usage, student-centered learning aims to
develop learner
autonomy and independence by
putting responsibility for the learning
path in the
hands of
students by imparting them with skills
and basis on how to learn a
specific subject and
schemata required to measure up to the specific
performance requirement.
Student-centered instruction focuses on skills and
practices that enable lifelong learning and independent
problem-solving.Student-centered
learning theory
and practice are based on the constructivist
theory that emphasizes the learner's critical role in
constructing
meaning from new information and prior
experience.
How do you practise active Learning:
1-The
above mind-mapped presentation shows you
that in "Active Learning ",
the teacher enables his
learners to think, pair and share.
A-The
word"Think" means that the teacher should
encourage the process of
critical thinking of his learners.
The learners must think of solutions
to the problems
they study by themselves under the guide and support
of
the teacher . The learner asks questions like
" What, how, how come,
why, where...?".
Then, he must think of his plan to work by himself
as
an independent learner to do practical learning.
This approach addresses
the long memory learning.
B-The
teacher also, encourages his learners to
"pair", namely, the learner
can share his task with
his pair as a kind of co-operative learning to
reach
the lesson objectives. Working in pairs creates
communication,
exchanging views and mutual
evaluation as standards of critical
thinking.
C-How
lovely is the word "share" in all fields of life!!!
In education, the
word" Share" means that the teacher
enables his learners to work in
group work or a team
work composed of 6 learners for each group.
The
group includes 6 members that play the roles
of a leader, presenter, a
dictator, a writer , a timer
and an organizer. These roles can be
exchanged.
There is a good saying. It says: " To share, is to care. "
2-Active
learning directs the learner to dialogue with
himself to explore
knowledge by himself and dialogue
with others to communicate till they
reach the solutions
of their problems, researches, cases or projects at
the
time they resort to experimental learning to do, to
observe the
results, to evaluate the results ,
to reach the truth and to carry out
their projects.
3-Activities
inside the class through pair work, group
work and sometimes individual
work take place
through the process of the learner's interaction
with
the teacher, with the course content, with his
pair, with his peers,
with the environment and with
the internet network.
There are
activities outside the classroom.
Resorting to the library to consult
the dictionaries,
encyclopedias and other scientists' works beside
working with actual situations in real life represent
the learner's
activities outside the classroom.
Outside school activities enable
learners to
communicate with the society and environmentally directly.
Characteristics of learning environment are:
Aligned with constructivist strategies and evolved from
traditional philosophies.
Promoting research based learning through investigation
and contains authentic scholarly content.
Encouraging leadership skills of the students through
self-development activities.
Creating atmosphere suitable for collaborative learning
for building knowledgeable learning communities.
Cultivating a dynamic environment through interdisciplinary
learning
and generating high-profile activities for a better
learning
experience.
Inductive methods:
Inductive methods
include inquiry-based learning,
case-based instruction, problem-based
learning,
project-based learning, discovery learning, and
just-in-time teaching.
Learner-centered methods have repeatedly been
shown to be superior to
the traditional teacher-centered
approach to instruction, a conclusion
that applies
whether the assessed outcome is short-term mastery,
long-term retention, or depth of understanding of
course material,
acquisition of critical thinking or
creative problem-solving skills,
formation of positive
attitudes toward the subject being taught, or
level of
self-confidence in knowledge and skills.
2-Materials and Methods
In order to find out the answer to the research
question and to fulfill
both purposes of the research,
we have conducted a qualitative
research.
We used types of qualitative research
methods like an in-depth interview, focus groups,
ethnographic research, content analysis and case
study research that are used.
This has been done by interviewing twenty schools
managers and
20 educational leaders or administers
beside 50 teachers and senior
teachers working at
schools and education zones and supervision.
We have
tried to talk to representatives of different
layers of the
organizations to make our research
more diversificated and complete.
These semi-structured interviews resulted in qualitative
data, which had
been processed and analyzed using
coding technique.
My critical thinking workshops lead my participants to
be more rational and disciplined thinkers.
It
reduces their bias which will provide a greater
understanding of
their environment.
My workshops provide my participants the
skills to
observe collect data, find a proof, propose solutions.
They
analyze, synthesize, evaluate, identify, and
distinguish between
relevant and
irrelevant information
which will provide an incredible boost in
performance.
Our research used 2 methods:
One of academic character, and one
of practical character.
1-The academic purpose is in investigating
relationship
between organizational structure, leadership, and
communication and organizational performance,
i.e. efficiency and
productivity.
2-The practical purpose is in giving analysis-based
recommendations about possible ways to increase
productivity and
efficiency to our educational
organizations.
3-We used interviews, lectures, debates,
experiencing, observations, analysis, synthesis,
assessment, feedback and evaluation.
4-We
held workshops, modeling, training units
authentic field practice in
actual fields and we
assessed, followed and evaluated what we
recommended academically before. It took 3
months to conduct our
experiences that we
acquired from our professors in East Anglia
University, England.
Outcomes and impact –
My
PhD research mustn't be put on a library shelf to be stored like the
ones that couldn't be benefited from. My PhD a practical and relevant
research. It is a message of progress, development, promotion and the
only solution for the problems that people in charge of education ,
planners, administrators, teachers, learners, course content authors and
people of assessment all over the world.
1-My research is Significant :
My proposed research will be academically
significant. To do this properly, I acknowledge relevant
existing scholarship and I explain how my research will relate to it. I am able to
show how my PhD will contribute to its field and – ideally – indicate
some of the gaps in knowledge it will aim to fill.
2-My research is feasible / doable:
1-Each
education association must know that the education
policy is
based on using critical thinking skills not just attainment or learning
by heart.
2-
Many training units, workshops, conferences and webinars must be held
3-My PhD is worthwhile.:
My research deals with a very vital and important problem that causes
worry to all people all over the world. It is actual. It touches our
lives everywhere. If we solve the problems of education, all programs of
sustainable development will succeed.
4-I suggest what will become
possible.
1-Other researchers can use
or build upon my research results. My research
will close the gaps of the missing relation between the education
policy,curriculum and assessment in academic knowledge.
2-
I am ready to do workshops, webinars,conferences, training units and
meetings to do professional development visits and meetings for the
teachers in my country with attendance or through using technology.
3-
I can use my global education sites and my blog to do professional
development meetings to all teachers all over the world with attendance
or through using my sites, emails or the university platform..
4-
If the people in charge put me in charge of implementing my project in
my country, I will enter classes with the company of teachers and senior
teachers of English and do model lessons based on using critical
thinking skills.
5-
If I was asked to do professional development anywhere all over the
world, I am ready to do the same to add my knowledge to humanity.
6- I am ready to be in touch with any university or any education association all over the world to give a hand .
7- My project is worthy and doable. It doesn't cost much money or funding. It is easy not difficult. It is very possible.
5-Originality/value
This
study depicted a daily life practical Lesson Study activity through
solving problem method. the lesson was: ( Environmental Pollution
Problem) which focused on the students’ critical thinking
activity through the integration of PBL and learners' work groups in
their authentic and practical daily life situations.
5-Discussion
The purpose of the discussion is to interpret and
describe the
significance of our findings in light of
what was already known about
the research
problem
being investigated and to explain any new
understanding or
insights that emerged as a result
of our study of the problem.
The discussion will always connect to the introduction
by way of the
research questions or hypotheses
I posed and the literature I reviewed, but the
discussion does not simply repeat or rearrange
the first parts of my paper; the
discussion clearly
explains how my study advanced the reader's
understanding of
the research problem from
where I left them at the end of my review of prior
research.
DISCUSSION provides the explanation and interpretation
of results or
findings by comparing with the findings in
prior studies. Then, I can
say that: compared to the
previous study about (Education and Development),
I say that my research is different .
My research recommended the following:
Role of a Teacher
A planner, an organizer and evaluator.
Facilitator.
Decision maker.
Knowledge
Disciplinarian
Active learning:
Student-centered learning, also known as
learner-centered education, broadly encompasses
methods of teaching that shift the focus of instruction
from the teacher to the student.
In original usage, student-centered learning aims to
develop learner
autonomy and independence by
putting responsibility for the learning
path in the
hands of
students by imparting them with skills
and basis on how to learn a
specific subject and
schemata required to measure up to the specific
performance requirement.
Student-centered instruction focuses on skills and
practices that enable lifelong learning and independent
problem-solving.Student-centered
learning theory
and practice are based on the constructivist
theory that emphasizes the learner's critical role in
constructing
meaning from new information and prior
experience.
6-Limitations
“The empirical results reported herein should be
considered in the light of some limitations.”
Here are these limitations:
1-Time constraints
Just as researchers have deadlines to turn in
their
class papers, academic researchers also must meet
the deadline
for submitting a research manuscript
to a journal.
Therefore, the time
available to study a research
problem and to measure change over time is
constrained by the deadline of my “assignment.”
I should have Made sure I choose a
research
problem that I will be able to complete well
before the
assignment’s deadline. If time
constraints negatively impacted my
study in
any way, acknowledge this impact by mentioning
a need for a
future study (e.g., a longitudinal
study) to answer this research
problem.
2-Conflicts arising from cultural bias and
other personal issues
Researchers might be biased views due to
their
cultural backgrounds or perspectives of certain
phenomena, and
this can affect a study’s legitimacy.
Also, it is possible that
researchers will have biases
toward data and results that only support
their
hypotheses or arguments.
In order to avoid these problems, the
author(s) of
a study should examine whether the way the
problem was
stated and the data-gathering process
were carried out appropriately. I found a difficulty ,
but I did it .
3-More study:
I suggest additional studies in the future as the
subject of my
research is of a national importance
to my great country. Leading a
multicultural team is
very important.
7-Conclusion
In conclusion, I provide a
brief conclusion that ties each
of the findings together and provides a
narrative bridge
to the discussion section of the your paper. We
reached
to the objectives we set before and the vision we dreamed
of
through implementing our mission, goals and objectives.
Through
conclusion, I give my recommendations.
All people at any organization should know and practice
their work
according to the organization principles,
values, vision, mission, goals
and objectives.
All people became loyal to their organization in terms
of