Sharing knowledge promotes change. Effective principals will build a positive learning environment to encourage the collaborative knowledge sharing among the teachers. This environment includes providing concrete data to help the teachers reflecting on their daily teaching, adjusting the timetable to ensure the course teachers have sufficient time for group work and so on. However, at the same time, Professor Björk also reminds us of the danger of group think.

Before any lecture either open or save to your computer the assigned PowerPoint presentations.

Assignment before the lecture: none

Write your learning experiences into your personal Reflective report

Assignment after the lecture: In your school, do the school timetable and routines allow teachers to develop group work and share knowledge among the group? Why or why not? Write these reflections to your Reflective report