student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching
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Student Feedback & Leadership<br />
2.2 Project Design<br />
The project aimed to use this action-research model to engage multi-levels<br />
of leaders in activities aimed at building trust, deepening relationships, <strong>and</strong><br />
altering viewpoints as shown in Figure 4, in order to build <strong>leadership</strong> capacity<br />
through action rather than as a separate professional development activity.<br />
That is, active participation in the process of change to respond to <strong>student</strong><br />
<strong>feedback</strong> would enable participants to become more skilled in the work<br />
of <strong>leadership</strong> which involves collaboration, dialogue, inquiry, facilitation<br />
<strong>and</strong> conflict resolution skills (Lambert 2005). The project was designed<br />
as a reciprocal learning process that would enable individuals working<br />
in teams to work collaboratively to solve problems by creating shared<br />
meaning, providing a focus <strong>for</strong> teaching improvement <strong>and</strong> development,<br />
<strong>and</strong> creating a momentum <strong>for</strong> change.<br />
The approach involved three School level Action Research Teams (ARTs),<br />
a Project Team to assist in the planning, scoping <strong>and</strong> managing of the project,<br />
a Community of Practice (in the <strong>for</strong>m of Open Plenaries) of representatives<br />
from a vertical slice across the University, <strong>and</strong> a Reference Group.<br />
Ethics approval was obtained at the commencement of the project that<br />
enabled in<strong>for</strong>mation to be collected <strong>for</strong> research purposes from each of the<br />
participant groups in the <strong>for</strong>ms of Minutes of Meetings, Notes of Plenary<br />
sessions, ART Group Reports <strong>and</strong> Reports of Project Manager to the<br />
Project Team, the Reference Group <strong>and</strong> to ALTC.<br />
Figure 4 Multi-Level Action Research Distributed Leadership Framework<br />
Leadership<br />
Community of Practice<br />
DVC/PVCs<br />
Heads of School<br />
Program Leaders<br />
Academic Staff<br />
Types of Activities<br />
Leadership theoretical underst<strong>and</strong>ings<br />
T&L professional development<br />
Focus groups & interviews<br />
Evaluation<br />
Reflection<br />
Student <strong>Learning</strong><br />
support<br />
of action<br />
terms<br />
3 Multi-level<br />
Action <strong>Learning</strong> Groups<br />
of projects<br />
Plenary sessions<br />
Facilitation<br />
HOS, Academics,<br />
Program Leaders<br />
Dissemination<br />
Reflection cycles<br />
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