1. This innovation focuses specifically on the primary school system but involves interaction among the Ministry officials, teacher educators, principals and teachers. Generally the information flow will be from the Ministry to the schools. This will be best facilitated by a series of workshops and a symposium.
2. The Innovation-Decision Process will be addressed in the following ways:
Knowledge - Seminar for teachers and principals in the schools to introduce them to the idea
of the Master teacher system and how it will work.
Persuasion - They will be shown how it will benefit the school system. Use will be made of
successful examples from the Region.
Decision - The Master teacher system will be implemented in three schools as a pilot
study for a semester.
Implementation - The Ministry of Education will conduct a symposium involving all the
stakeholders then the system will be implemented in all
the primary schools.
Confirmation - A follow -up survey will be conducted one year after implementation to
determine the effectiveness of the system.
3. Other factors to consider are:
i. The added responsibilities for the master teachers.
ii. Renumeration for the extra work.
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Monica,
Your description in terms of your ISD model and ideas on the innovation is very clear and detailed:-). And I like the way that the Master teacher system model the work. But sometimes, even the master teacher present with successful stories, the follower teachers / school admin. may not adopt the idea or hesitated to do it due to different reasons. This is just impression I got when I worked in the school before. If potential adopters can be trained as the master teacher in the local school, I guess the influence to other follower teachers in the school may be more powerful - just my two cents.
Do you envision your model as a train-the-trainer (mentor teachers) approach?
Yes, the potential master teachers will be provided with the necessary knowledge and skills(through training.
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