Cliff Bennett, as part of his workshop on innovation, asked us to turn our intentions on their head by moving the verb and the object. These are the fascinating results:
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Instead of . . . |
Try . . . |
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How do we involve more parents? |
How do we parent more involvement? |
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How do we act on ineffectiveness? |
How do we affect action? |
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How do we improve our leadership? |
How do we lead improvement? |
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How do we make learning more enjoyable? |
How do we enjoy more learning? |
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How do we connect ideas? |
How do ideas connect? |
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How do we motivate teachers |
How do teachers motivate? |
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How do we remove inadequate educators? |
How do inadequate educators remove themselves? |
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How do we manage schools? |
How do we school managers’ lead? |
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How do you enjoy learning? |
How do you learn enjoying? |
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How do we train more teachers? |
How do we teach more trainers? |
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How do we inspire more leaders? |
How do we lead more inspiration? |
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Instead of . . . |
Try . . . |
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How do we build partnerships? |
How do we partner more builders? |
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How do we connect more leaders? |
How do we lead more connectors? |
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How do we teach more students? |
How do we study more teachers? |
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How do we create leaders? |
How do we lead creativity? |
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How do we teach our children well? |
How well do our children teach? |
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How do we motivate our staff |
How do we staff our motivators? |
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How do we value our stakeholders? |
How do we stakeholder our values? |
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How do we promote creativity? |
How do we create promotion? |
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How do we best motivate students? |
How do we study the best motivators? |
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How do we improve leadership? |
How do we lead improvement? |
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How do we train our leaders? |
How do we lead our trainers? |
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How do we achieve more creativity |
How do we create more achievement? |
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How do we support staff |
How do we staff support? |
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How do we aim for perfection? |
How do we perfect our aims? |
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How do teachers improve learning? |
How do learners improve teaching? |
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How do we achieve smaller class sizes? |
What do smaller class sizes achieve? |
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How do we develop reluctant leaders? |
How do we lead reluctant developers? |
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How do we make learning more fun? |
How do we make fun about learning? |
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How do we make learners more open? |
How do we open more learners? |
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How do we improve attainment? |
How do we attain improvement? |
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How do we lead learning? |
How do we learn leading? |
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How do we learn internationally? |
How do we internationalize learning? |
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How do we improve joint working? |
How do we work to improve the joints? |
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How do we get better at falling? |
How do we fall to get better? |
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How do we maintain focus whilst being creative? |
How do we ensure creativity whilst remaining focused? |
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How do we make learning more interesting? |
How do we interest more learners? |
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How do we engage all our learners? |
How do we learn how to engage? |
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Instead of . . . |
Try . . . |
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How do we motivate more teachers? |
How do we teach more motivation? |
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How do we develop the capacity? |
How to capacitate more developers? |
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How do we allow for innovation? |
How do we innovate for mission? |
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How do we improve our buildings? |
How can we build for improvements? |
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How can we teach more children? |
How can children teach more? |
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How can we build capacity in leaders? |
How can leaders build capacity? |
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How do we encourage teachers to take more risks? |
How does taking risks encourage teachers? |
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How does consistency improve learning and teaching? |
How does learning and teaching improve consistency? |
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How do you encourage problem solving in headteachers? |
How do headteachers encourage problem solving? |
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How does sharing good practice improve learning and teaching? |
How does learning and teaching improve sharing practice? |
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How do we switch more kids on? |
How do kids switch on? |
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How do we raise achievement? |
How is achievement raised? |
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How do we build better classrooms? |
How do classrooms build better learning? |
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How do we get teachers to talk to each other? |
How do teachers get to talk? |
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How do we ensure Quality in our teaching and learning? |
Does our teaching and learning ensure quality? |
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How do we make trouble? |
How do we trouble make? |
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How do we manage budgets? |
How do budgets manage us? |
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How do we create more time? |
How can time be used more creatively? |
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How do we lead more creativity? |
How do we create more leaders? |
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How do we learn more enjoyably? |
How do we enjoy more learning? |
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How do we improve our schools? |
How do we school our improvements? |
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How do we ensure self-evaluation has more impact? |
How do we impact to ensure self-evaluation? |
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How do we ensure consistency in teaching? |
How do we teach consistency? |
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How do we know our schools? |
How do our schools know? |
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How do we improve student success? |
How do we succeed in student improvement? |
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How do we engage and motivate all staff in professional learning? |
How do we learn to motivate and engage all professionals? |
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How do we improve the quality of teaching? |
How do teach quality improvement? |
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Instead of . . . |
Try . . . |
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How do we develop the capacities to deliver the new curriculum? |
How do we develop the new capacities to deliver the curriculum? |
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How do we staff our schools? |
How do we school our staff? |
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How do we engage more learners |
How do we learn more engagement? |
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How do we improve more successes? |
How do we succeed in our improvements? |
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How do we fund our work? |
How do we work our funds? |
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How do we achieve consistent good practice |
How do we practice consistent achievement? |
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How do we encourage attendance? |
How to we attend to encouragement? |
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How do we create more trust? |
How do we trust more creativity? |
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How do we challenge children more? |
How do children challenge more? |
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How do we facilitate more leadership opportunities? |
How do we lead more facilitation opportunities? |
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How do we create more ideas? |
How do we idea more creativity? |
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How do we make leadership more interesting? |
How do we make more interesting leaders? |
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How do we move extraneous pillars? |
How do we build movement? |
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How do we get more people on board with CfE? |
How does CfE get people on board? |
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How do students learn best? |
How do best students learn? |
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How do teachers support learning? |
How does learning support teachers? |
This is a presentation from Do Coyle of University of Aberdeen
All the participants at the Leadership Summer School were asked to contribute their big idea for CfE and Scottish education. At the behest of the National CPD Team, Anne McGhee added images from Flickr : Creative Commons to create this slideshow for the conference.
Please feel free to:
I would like to see a CPD College, a Scottish College of Educators if you will!
This starter paper is to help promote discussion on improving the professional learning of Scottish educators.
Please note:
There is a brief presentation on the subject here.
Update 1st August. John Connell wrote a post in his blog on the same subject. Please feel free to comment on either blog!
Con Morris, National CPD Team