Transcript Learning from the Change Game

Making Change
Happen
The Concerns-Based Adoption Model
What do we know
about Change?
 Lots
of research on the adoption of
innovations, know as “Diffusion
Research” - see Everett Rodgers
 Rural Sociology, Government programs
in the 3rd World, Educational
innovations, all show the same kind of
patterns in adoption and adopters
 One educational model is call the
“Concerns-Based Adoption Model”
Assumptions of the ConcernsBased Adoption Model (CBAM)
 Change
is a Process, not an event
 It is made by individuals first then by
institutions - It is a highly personal
 Change entails developmental growth in
feelings and skills
 Interventions must be related to the people
first, and the innovation second
 CBAM connects level of use to stages of
concern
Levels of use - Stages
of Concern
 Non-Use
 Orientation
 Preparation
 Mechanical
 Routine
 Refinement
 Integration
 Renewal
- Awareness
- Informational
- Personal
- Management
- Consequence
- Collaboration
- Refocusing
Adopter Types
 Innovator
 Leader
 Early
Majority
 Late Majority
 Resistor
Using CBAM
 Be
aware of concerns your faculty will
likely have
 Design the change to address these
concerns in advance
 Remember that you don’t have to
convince everybody, and know who you
have to convince
 Pay attention to ALL aspects of the
change - especially the 5 elements of
reform
Five Elements of Institutional
Reform
 Exemplary
materials and practices
 Support for exemplary materials and
practices
 Ongoing mentoring and professional
development
 Assessment that is aligned with instruction
 Departmental and institutional support
Making Change HappenThe Strategic Planning Institute
 Designed
for department teams, including
Dean and Chair/Head
 4-5 days of examples on solutions to all of
the 5 elements of reform
 Teams produce a strategic plan for
implementation in their departments
 If you want this to happen, email Duncan
McBride and tell him to fund it