Updated: Mar 2000 | Managing Change

Managing the Change Process A positive staff and parent climate needs to exist in a school if a review of curriculum, assessment and reporting is to be productive, and particularly if change is to occur. Leading Curriculum Change: A Sourcebook of Ideas for School Leaders (Education Department of Western Australia, 1997) emphasises the need for certain conditions to exist in a school to support review and change.

In relation to outcomes-focused education, these include:

	leaders and teachers focusing on the learning outcomes.
	leaders and teachers trusting one another.
	communication lines, both formal and informal, providing consistent information to everyone.
	consensus decision making structures and processes enabling everyone to voice opinions, agreements and disagreements.
	understanding that the change process is slow and requires time for teachers and parents to be involved.
	all successes being acknowledged openly.