Reaching+the+reluctants

= Reaching the reluctant teachers = It can be hard to get everyone moving down the path of using ICT in their classrooms when many feel they have a successful programme already and that managing the use of the ICT is too big a headache. So how do you move them forward? Some of the suggestions under monitoring should help with this but here are a few more links that might be useful as well.

[|Jamie McKenzie] Jamie McKenzie has done some thinking around this which might help. He always has great down to earth suggestions.

1 I wonder whether focussing on some individual learners and privately demonstrating transformational gains for them - eg reluctant writers becoming confident through word-processing, work done at home, collaborative video productions, a vital 'ah-hah' moment which motivates a reluctant child... for this, the ICT leader has to gather data and evidence and share it without commentary or judgement. 2 How about displays of work, awards and learner recognition in assemblies? Again the key is showing specific, attributable success rather than generalised feel-good. 3 Then there's the stick - key announcements, reporting and school business providing meaningful and purposeful reasons to personally engage. 4 ...and the carrots - playful and creative time together where ICT benefits are in evidence for the teacher as a learner in th context of professional development - in the privacy that will allow risks and confidence to build. 5 And professional recognition - for critical friendship which identifies weaknesses in the approaches that derive from ICT.
 * Richard Millwood:**

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