Six change-agent roles framework for regional staff development staff¶

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Description¶

The project adopts a change-agent role framework, attributed by the report to writers such as Leach and Owens, in which project staff perform six roles: analyst, advisor, advocate, systems linkers, innovator, and trainer. The report states that "USOE indicated that it viewed the staff development project as instruments of change.The project staff, it was suggested, should assume the role of change agents." Each role is defined, e.g., the analyst "interpret[s] situations in terms of the enrivonment that the Project operates in."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Project staff must be able to shift among roles at different times, since different members assumed these roles at different times

Constraints¶

• The report notes the roles were performed "with varying degrees of success"

Target Learners¶

• adult basic education state department staff and local program personnel in HEW Region II

Target Learning Objectives¶

• building state capacity to design and deliver competency-based staff development for ABE personnel

Claims¶

Related Theories¶

• Eight-element systems model for competency-based staff development in adult education
• Six participant roles in feedback loops: translators, facilitators, users, informants, advisors, designers
• Ellsworth's framework organizes educational change models around agent, innovation, adopter, process, environment, and resistance
• Ellsworth's Framework of Educational Change
• Six models of staff development ordered by ascending complexity, each implying a distinct staff-developer role

Examples¶

• Change facilitators should work in a diagnostic/prescriptive mode, matching interventions to the user's level
• Train indigenous adult educators in task analysis to build state needs-assessment capability

Key Sources¶

• Three-Year Staff Development Plan 1972-1975: Report of HEW Region II Staff Development Project. (1973). Montclair State College. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED083424