L5 Frame: Leadership Development

Policy

The National Statement for Engaging Young Australians with Asia in Australian Schools was agreed by MEECTYA in 2005 and remains the flagship policy document of the AEF. It provides advice for a range of audiences. It outlines a rationale for focusing on Asia, articulates the knowledge, skills and attributes of an Asia-literate young Australian and outlines core priorities for action in six areas: Teaching and learning, curriculum resources, professional learning, engagement of parents and community, teacher education and quality assurance.

L5 Frame: Leading Asia Literate Schools

This module will engage you in a process of whole school curriculum change to develop a sustainable, Asia literate school. Each stage will provide you with resources and self-paced activities. The stages assume no prior experience: however many principals will have already made progress on this journey and will want to select those stages which best meet their needs. The module starts with understanding why Asia literacy is essential for today's Australian students and moves through processes to support you in ensuring sustainable curriculum change.

The Leading Asia Literate Schools frame consists of the L5 leadership propositions and assertions for leadership practice:

L5 Frame Propositions	Assertions for Leadership Practice
L1 Leadership starts from within	Principals understand the importance of engaging their students with Asia
L2 Leadership is about influencing others	School principals work collaboratively with colleagues, key staff and school communities to ensure collective understanding of the importance of engaging students with Asia to build a shared vision
L3 Leadership develops a rich learning environment	School leaders build capacity with staff to develop a whole-school approach to Asia-focused program development, implementation and evaluation
L4 Leadership builds professionalism and management capability	School leaders establish systems, structures and processes to integrate engagement with Asia into the school School leaders establish and sustain professional learning networks for themselves and their staff
L5 Leadership inspires leadership actions and aspirations in others	School leaders encourage and facilitate opportunities for colleagues and staff to take and show leadership in the implementation of the National Statement for Engaging Young Australians with Asia in Australian Schools School leaders ensure that significant achievements and events are recognised and celebrated

The module is based on Learn:Lead:Succeed, constructed around a frame for building leadership in schools that was developed in 2003, at the initiative of APAPDC, by a group that included some of Australia's leading researchers and practitioners in the fields of leadership and succession planning. They were Patrick Duignan, Louise Bywaters, Jenny Lewis, Kathy Lacey, Tom Croker, Don Zoellner, Susan Boucher and Jeremy Hurley.

School Practices

Now More Than Ever We Live in One World captures the experiences of teachers and schools focused on creating Asia-literate school cultures. Users can read relevant sections of this resource to explore how school practice has changed in areas such as English, History, The Arts and in small and large schools in urban and rural areas. It is designed to provide very practical advice to schools and to be used as stimulus for discussion amongst teachers.

Professional Development

These resources which will assist you in organising professional development within your school.

play video >>

Panel presentation: A futures oriented curriculum: What are we waiting for?

Speakers: Justin Breheny, Professor Tim Lindsey, Chris Wardlaw, Anna Rose