11-0032 W 3 Chapters 3-4 Innovation-Intercultural Competence

11-0032 Week 3 Tues, Feb 08th

Chp 3 Catalysis for Innovation

Chp 4 Intercultural Navigator

By Caroll Barrios Molina

1. Facilitator Presentation on Quizziz + Gamification Chapters 3-4.

2. Synchronous Act #2 2%​

   Debate and Situation

   (Padlet + Tool)​

   Collaborative Teamwork​

3. Next Class Agenda.​

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Chapters 3-4

Class Agenda

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Ch. 3 Catalyst for Innovation

"One of the most important roles that leaders play within organizational settings is to create the climate for innovation" (Isaksen and Tidd, 2006)

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Haven´t we all, at one time or another, received word "from above" that our tried and true practices must be modified in some way?​

W 3 Chapter Catalyst for innovation

Catalyst for innovation

​Overseeing changes and innovations...

is one of the most important responsibilities as langague program administrators.

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By means of an ongoing responsiveness to programmatic change and and innovation, they include: job satisfaction among faculty and staff, learning conditions for our students and more effective management of programs.​

Chapter 3 Cataylist fo rinnovation

Multiple Select

For the purpose of this chapter, what is change?

• it does not means improvement.

• it is a result of alteration in the status quo

• it is something predictable and inevitable.

• it is often identified as one of the most stable features of organizational life.

Poll

When does language program experience change? What is the most common change?

• student demographics fluctuation

• staff assume new positions

• mandates are imposed by goverment

Multiple Select

What are some consideratios about innovation?

• it improves instruction

• it facilitates program renewal and to be responsive to changes

• efforts perceived as new that are intended to birng improvements

• it is not inevitable

They can provoke discomfort, differences in opinions, resistance.

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They increase workloads, costs in time, energy and resources.​

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Chapter 3 Catalyst for innovation

Innovation and changes

Discussion on the following topics:

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1. impetu for innovation

2.characteristics fo language program​

3. paths to successful innovation difusion​

Chapter 3 Catalyst for innovation

The desire for professional growth, improved working conditions, effective hiring practices.

Examples: faculty development, online education, procedures and policies.​

Need for More Professionalism

Innovation that merge from dissatisfaction impact number of areas: course offerings, student placement, students and staff opportunities, technology, etc.

Dissatisfaction with the Status Quo

Impetuses for innovation

Chapter 3 Catalyst of Innovation

Recognizing students´needs and desires can be implemented to extend student´s education.​

Student Needs and Desires

These often stem from community members to local employers can lead to innovations.

Explicit and Implicit Support, Mandates and Requests.

Impetuses for innovation

Chapter 3 Catalyst of Innovation

When innovations are proposed by others, administratiors should request a justifcation that identifies the appropriate proposals and their implementantions.

Faculty often return from conferences with new ideas that are adaptable to their teaching settings.

Faculty Interests and Suggestions

Impetuses for innovation

Chapter 3 Catalyst of Innovation

Poll

Discuss: As a language program administrator, we should be in the best position to take advantage of the right moments. So, what is the best for you as a future language program administrator?

• Introduce innovations to different stakeholders

• Inspire innovation in others

• Consider merits of proposals in innovation

Characteristics of Language Programs That Hinder Innovation

Chapter 3 Catalyst for innovation

Innovations are often viewed differently by people advocating them and people who are asked to implement them.

Innovations challenge the status quo, as a result, they often provoke insecurity, lead to increased workload, time energy and resources.

Innovation as Hindrances

Characteristics of Language Programs that hinder innovation

Chapter 3 Catalyst for Innovation

Poll

Five tips can help us in our efforts to promote programatic innovation.

Rank them all.

• Provide administrative support in the form of reassigned time, resources, and opportunities

• Leadership needed to sustain the lengthly innovation

• Acknowlledge willingly the time and patience

• There may always be a few resisters

To get out of the "academic basement" in the following ways.

Sometimes lack of appreciation, and misperceptions turn the prestige and funding opportunities needed to innovate.

Marginality of Language Programs

Characteristics of Language Programs that hinder innovation

Chapter 3 Catalyst for Innovation

Poll

Rank the ways we get out of the academic basement.

• We need to educate

• We should avoid using terms to carry negative connotations

• Make our own professional affiliations

Paths to Successful Innovation Diffusion

Chapter 3 Catalyst for innovation

It involves succesive cycles that require long-term commitment and support.

Innovation Diffusion Process

Paths to Successful Innovation Diffusion

Chapter 3 Catalyst for Innovation

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Multiple Choice

Paths to innovation diffusion. What are some characteristics of "Initiation Phase"?

• Ongoing training and support

  Formative and summative evaluation

  Inevitable modifications

• Translation of innovative ideas into practice

  Attention to stakeholders´ attitudes, training, understanding of the innovation

• Needs Analysis

  Evaluation of proposed innovation

  Decision to proceed

  Gathering of support

Multiple Choice

Paths to innovation diffusion. What are some characteristics of "Implementation Phase"?

• Ongoing training and support

  Formative and summative evaluation

  Inevitable modifications

• Translation of innovative ideas into practice

  Attention to stakeholders´ attitudes, training, understanding of the innovation

• Needs Analysis

  Evaluation of proposed innovation

  Decision to proceed

  Gathering of support

Multiple Choice

Paths to innovation diffusion. What are some characteristics of "Diffusion Phase"?

• Ongoing training and support

  Formative and summative evaluation

  Inevitable modifications

• Translation of innovative ideas into practice

  Attention to stakeholders´ attitudes, training, understanding of the innovation

• Needs Analysis

  Evaluation of proposed innovation

  Decision to proceed

  Gathering of support

Language administrators should not understimate the power of perceptions.

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The more viable an innovation is perceived to be, the more likely its adoption.​

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Factors that interact to facilitate or inhibit the process

Paths to Successful Innovation Diffusion

Chapter 3 Catalyst for Innovation

Poll

Rank the factors that interact to facilitate or inhibit innovation diffusion process according to your experience, explain why.

• Language program variables

• Home institution variables

• External variables

• Innovation variables

Persuasive presentation for implmentation:

• Present innovative proposals so that advantages outweigh disadvantages.

• Point out how the proposal is a response of dissatisfaction.

• Hightlight the usefulness.

• Keep in mind the zone of innovation.​

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Paths to Successful Innovation Diffusion

Chapter 3 Catalyst for Innovation

Guideing principles for the successful management of Innovation

Chapter 3 Catalyst for innovation

Go over pages 51-52 (Chapter 3), read principles for the successful managment of innovation.

Then, think:

What are the greatest challenges facing administrators who want to encourage innovation in their language programs? Based on the principles, what can administrators do to overcome those challenges?​

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Debate: Challenges and principles in innovation

Chapter 3 Catalyst for Innovation

Chapter 4. Intercultural Navigator

​Chapter 4 Cultural Navigator

​- Kennedy and Kennedy, 1998, p.459

"Cultural Conflicts can lead to a degree of creative dynamism with both cultures learning more about each other and producing new and acceptable innovation in the process " 

Multiple Choice

"To overcome challenges, administrators must place a high premiun on their own .................................................... and that of their faculty and staff"

What word completes the sentence the best?

• Assessments

• Learning Organizations

• Intercultural competence

• Management

Synchronous Act #2:

Debate​

Should I or Shouldn´t I?​

First, work individually. Go to your Padlet and provide your perspective on the questions.

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Then, ​work as a team and read the following situation and prepare yourselves to an oral presentation of your ideas (use the tool of your preference)

Situation:

Intercultural Competence, is it difficult to develop it?​

Imagine that you have just accepted the position of director of a language program outside of your home. How do you think your experience will differ from being a director of a languge program in your home culture? What challenges do you anticipate? What steps will you take to develop your intercultural competence? How will you promote the intercultural competence of your faculty and staff?

Chapter 4. Intercultural Navigator

Instructions: Choose your collaborative teamwork members.

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1. First, Read the situation carefully and state with three arguments your perspective. Make sure you use quotations and reference appropriately according to chapter 4.

2. Make sure all members of your team participate actively.

3. This activity will be graded individually.

4. Finally, Make sure you upload and/or share your evidence on Blackboard.