Senge offers many ideas about Systems Thinking.<\/p>\n
In my organization, our principal is currently working on implementing these fundamental laws. She has been on our staff for one year. In my opinion, she is taking extensive measures in implementing most of these fundamental laws. For example, in building a shared vision, she outlines the vision for our school division. Her passion inspires us to share the same vision. Zeeman (2017), tells us that people will be more motivated in their daily tasks if they are tasks that they want to do and not ones that they are forced to do. (Zeeman, 2017). Our principal is inspiring us to all want to work towards the same goals. Ulrich and Smallwood, (2013) tell us that a change will not be sustained unless the leader has a personal passion for the necessary changes (Ulrich & Smallwood, 2013, p. 17). I believe that she exhibits a substantial effort and passion towards implementing the changes necessary.<\/p>\n
One idea or take away that I got from Senge\u2019s Five Disciplines is that when it comes to implementing the Systems Thinking within an organization, \u201cthe most successful companies are those who can learn and adapt to new models to become faster than its competitor.\u201d (Zeeman, 2017). In my field (education) this is difficult. Education is constantly changing. Ideas that were taught when I went to school, are no longer taught. Technology is taking over at an incredibly fast rate. The world is also changing extremely fast, causing teachers to need to change as well. I believe that this becomes difficult for some people in education. There are many teachers, in my school and I\u2019m sure in other schools, who are hesitant to change. Part of the biggest problem with our principal implementing new ideas is that most of the staff is resistant to the change. Their defense is that they are the experts because they have been teaching for longer than the new principal has even been alive. While I do agree that the organizations who can adapt to change the fastest will be the most successful (Zeeman, 2017), I also see that there needs to be a balance between implementing the changes, and providing time for people to adapt. We see this in the example of Target in which they tried to implement change too fast. In the course notes, we read that they failed \u2018as a result of poor planning, and taking on too much too soon.\u2019 (Atha, 2018). \u00a0In my school division, an example of this can be seen in the mathematics goals. At a recent leadership meeting, we discussed the Three Year Education Plan for our school division. We discussed the need for a solution to our division\u2019s low achievement in mathematics as determined by standardized PAT testing in Alberta. This has been a problem in our division for a long period of time and we have not found a solution to the problem. The division has implemented a goal of a renewed focus on mathematics, however, they do not have a specific program or strategy (such as DIBELS in Language Arts) for mathematics. It has been left to the discretion of the teachers, which has proven to be ineffective in the PAT scores.<\/p>\n
One piece of the 5 Systems Thinking model that is currently being focused on the most in our school is Team Learning. There are still some staff members who refuse to be a part of any team dynamic and have more of a \u2018closed door\u2019 policy. The impact and success of Team Learning can be seen amongst newer staff members. Teaching is difficult and without collaboration, teachers would burnout faster and I believe, would be less likely to stay in a teaching role. Collaboration, team learning and an accepting attitude of people\u2019s honest mistakes, minimize stress levels, helps to decrease workload which both in turn affect the overall happiness of staff. If the staff are feeling less stressed, burnt out or overwhelmed, they are more ready to focus on providing students with the best education possible and more excited to do so.<\/p>\n
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Atha, D. (2018). Systems Thinking. <\/em>Course Learning Notes. Retrieved from https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/unit-3-learning-activities\/<\/p>\n Ulrich, D., & Smallwood, N. (2013). Leadership sustainability: Seven disciplines to achieve the changes great leaders know they must make<\/em>. USA: McGraw Hill Education.<\/p>\n Zeeman, A. (2017).\u00a0Senge\u2019s Five Disciplines of Learning Organizations<\/em>. Retrieved from ToolsHero: https:\/\/www.toolshero.com\/management\/five-disciplines-learning-organizations\/<\/p>\n\n Senge offers many ideas about Systems Thinking. In my organization, our principal is currently working on implementing these fundamental laws. She has been on our staff for one year. In my opinion, she is taking extensive measures in implementing most of these fundamental laws. For example, in building a shared vision, she outlines the vision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[165,12,4,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-health-education","category-ldrs501","category-senge","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9GHJs-1ix","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5124,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions\/5124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}