Understanding the Dynamics of Change Affecting Schools Description: The future can be a difficult concept to work with in educational settings because the daily routines overshadow our abilities to think forward. Many feel that looking at the future is no different from the astrologer predicting one’s day. The problem with that assumption is a lack of ability to see relevance of the process to those daily routines. If you are to understand and develop strategies to cope with change, then you must study trends to draw out possible scenarios to help your decision-making abilities. If there is one trend that has and will continue to affect the world in general and education specifically, it is informational technologies and globalization.
Six Skills in Dealing with the Uncertainty of Change Description: Change is a constant in life. It affects us on multiple levels: personal, organizational, local community, regional, globally, and environmentally. As a leader it is very important that you have a sense of the dynamics of change in order to understand its effects upon people that you have responsibility for leading.