Knowledge Management

Three knowledge management challenges Retaining the knowledge of outgoing educators; Orienteering new educators to a knowledge sharing culture; Establishing and maintaining a knowledge sharing culture.

Key questions How well do in-service teacher development programs cater for changing needs? How effectively do teachers share their accumulated wisdom, experiences and skills? How common is it for teachers to mentor younger, or less experienced teachers? Are there continuing experiments and explorations to find better ways of teaching and running schools? Are we effectively using the whole range of skills and knowledge of our staff? Do we even know what these are? Are we effectively using the whole range of skills and knowledge of our students?

Technologies to support knowledge management Applications for capturing information; word processor, spreadsheet , web page, email, school admin programmes, EMIS programmes Applications for cataloguing and storing information;  spreadsheet, database , school administration, EMIS programmes Applications for transforming information;  spreadsheet, mindmapping, online thinking tools Applications for disseminating information; and  presentation, publications, email, web pages