1. Slide 1 How Do We Ensure That All Teachers Are Committed to the School to Work Program?

2. Slide 2 Our Values Determine Our Likely Level of Commitment.

3. Slide 3 Teachers Need to Understand the Potential Significance of the School to Work Program

4. Slide 4 Activity: The Blasphemy Game

5. Slide 5 What Would You HATE to Hear Someone Say About the School to Work Program at Your School?

6. Slide 6 What Were Our Blasphemies?

7. Slide 7 Identifying the Common Blasphemy

8. Slide 8 Example: Banking Blasphemies They Give No Service and the Tellers Are Rude There Are Always Long Queues They Keep Closing Down Putting in Machine COMMON THEME… “They give lousy service”

9. Slide 9 What Values Are These Blasphemies Reflecting?

10. Slide 10 Banking Example … Common Theme Was: “They Give Lousy Service”.. The value held is… We value friendly and efficient customer service.

11. Slide 11 …And Ensure Planning and Resourcing Are Congruent With These Values Effective programs have staff who subscribe to a common set of values, underpinning teaching and learning

12. Slide 12 Walk the Talk!

13. Slide 13 What Are the Values That We Think We Stand for? Who determines them? How do we articulate them? When the going gets a bit chaotic what do we fall back on?

14. Slide 14 How Do We Tie These Values Into Our School to Work Program?

15. Slide 15 How Do We Write a School to Work Plan That Is ‘Real’ to Our Needs and Has Input From Everyone?

16. Slide 16 Not Another Plan? Will Anyone Actually Use It!

17. Slide 17 Evaluating Current Practice

18. Slide 18 What Were the School to Work Highlights and Successes in 2002? Refer to page 56

19. Slide 19 What School to Work Strategies Would You Like to Improve or Add to Your Current Program?

20. Slide 20 Sharing the Success Stories

21. Slide 21 The Next Step…

22. Slide 22 School to Work Plan School Value: Planned ActionsWho is involved? When will it happen? ResourcesEvaluation/indic ators of success? Refer to page 57

23. Slide 23 Transcribe our values Refer to the Sample Plan on page 58

24. Slide 24 What will happen? …. should be related to the value stated

25. Slide 25 The rest is up to you. We will show you examples of resources and strategies developed to support the program.