01+Status+Quo

Status Quo
The picture above shows a painting made by Paul Gauguin dating from 1897 Whence Come We? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

In order to see where you could go with your school and students you need to know your starting point. Starting from where you are now you first look back into your own organization to see what you did in the past, where you come from (your history). From there, looking at what you are doing now, you can see a movement, a direction. Looking toward the future you should be able to continue this movement and enhance it. If your whishes are to different you might get disappointed and not getting where you would like to go.



A look inside your own organization to determinate your starting point. Try to answer these questions.

- Are you involved in (international) project work? - Are you developping crosscurricular activities? - Is there a change in the way you teacht or would like to teach? - Is there a necessity to change? - Are you involving (more) ICT in your teaching? - Are other teachers in your school open/prepared to change their way of teaching? - Are the head of school demanding/stimulating/open for a change in teaching? - Are parents open for changes in your school?
 * Where are you now?**

**What did you do in the past?** - Have your students been engaged in collaborative work before? - Are your students experience with email and other ICT tools? - What level of foreign language have your students? - Have your students worked cross curricular before? - What possibilities do you have for the use of ICT and freedom within the curriculum?

**Where are we going to?** - What do you want to achieve? - Next year - In 2-5 years - What are the school objectives? - what is the schoolmission?

- What general goals do you wish to obtain? (Realistic, relevant, comprehensible and possible to assess) - What will indicate that you are on the right track? - What could cause changes you envisage? - How are you to evaluate? - What status will the results have?