Challenge To Change:

Commitment or Compliance
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies
down on the track of history to wait for the
train of future to run over him”.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 What is Change?

Change - A bend or turn

Change adjusts and modifies the past to the demands and

needs of the present and lays the foundation of the future.
Who is changing whom?

•Whose idea is the change?

•Who has to change?
•Who will gain most?
•Who will gain least?
 Managing Change
Identify desired change

Change the system Change the attitudes

Achieve desired change

 A Profound Change
A profound change takes place when inner shifts in
values, aspiration and behaviour combine with outer shifts in
processes, strategies, practices and systems.

The Nature of Change

It falls from the above – Compliance

Or
It is taking place from within – Commitment.
What forces aid change from
within?
If an egg is broken from
outside a life comes to
an end . When that egg
breaks from within , a
life is born . Great
things always begin from
that power within .
People do not resist change;
people resist being changed.
Richard Beckhard
 Identification of stakeholders.
The key role players in sustaining
a change.
To make people act and react in a
particular way towards a particular
direction, it is crucial to know why
they do not want to do so.
Mental paradigms erect boundaries and
barriers. The change that fails to fit in
within those paradigms is rejected and
labeled as irrational, crazy or stupid.
 Assumptions and Apprehensions

-Fear of unknown
-Stretching out from comfort zone.
-Lack of complete information
-Unlearning and re-learning the skill set
-Threat to expertise
Change in Education
Though there have been reforms in education, but
the reforms concentrated largely on “first-order”
changes – changes that try to make what already
exists more efficient and effective.
Whereas few reforms focused on “second
order” changes – changes designed to alter
the fundamental ways in which schools
operate.
 As a whiff of fresh air
arrived
Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation System
A Mixed Reaction Burst

Gave Smiles
Caused Frowns
Raised Question Marks
 Research Undertaken
Student

Teacher
Parent

Hypothesis
The major stakeholders of education perceive
the present educational reforms as an
instrument of positive change in education set
up.
 Sample

A sample of 900 were taken – 300 students of age group (14-16 years) of
grade IX & X students on whom CCE was implemented.
AND
Teachers and Parents (300 each).
From
A heterogeneous group of urban, semi-urban and rural area.
Survey Conducted At

Police DAV Public School, Jalandhar (urban);

Woodland Overseas School, Hoshiarpur (semi-urban);
MKD DAV School, Attari, Amritsar and GND DAV Public
School, Bhikhiwind (rural) Amritsar.
 Questionnaire
1. Do you think Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation is a better tool Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
of evaluation as it evaluates over the entire period of learning rather than
2. Do
threeyou think
hour the formative
examination assessments motivate students to enhance
system? Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
3. their
Do you performance
agree that the? system lays emphasis on thinking skills and Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
4. discourages
Do you thinkrotethe learning
system is?more subjective as teachers have a great hold Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
5. on marks
Do ? grading is better than traditional %age system ?
you think Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
6. Do you agree that students retain what is learnt over a period of time ? Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
7. Do you feel less home work means less learning ? Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
8. Do you think bifurcation in terms does not provide sufficient time for Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
9 indepth
Do knowledge
you think ?
this system encourages peer learning and team work ? Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
10 Do you agree that the system has promoted ICT competency in students ? Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
11 Do you agree that the system encourages research work and self- Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
12 learning ?
Do you agree that tomorrow’s India will produce more number of Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
13 scientists
Do you thinkand the
inventors
system?reduces stress and depression and will bring a Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
14 fall you
Do in suicide rate system
agree that ? will decrease the school drop out rate ? Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
15 Do you agree that the non-labeling of ‘fail’ or ‘pass’ has inculcated more Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
self respect in students ?
 Questionnaire
16. Do you think this system will help to evolve into a knowledge based and Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
17. awakened
Do you thinksociety?
less competition gives way to complacent behavior in Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
18. Do you
students?think the system discourages tuition system and encourages self- Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
19. learning?
Do you think the system inculcates problem solving and independent Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
20. decision making?
Do you think the system has increased students level of participation in Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
school activities?
Do you think it inculcate tolerance and adaptability to get along well with Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
21.
22. others
Do youas a team
agree that? the evaluation of life skills has discouraged class Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
23. bullies?
Do you think CCE will inculcate moral values in students ? Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
24. Do you agree that the system will bend the students’ attitude towards Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
25. vocational
Do you agreeeducation
that theinsystem
their career selection
has increased ?
students’ sensitization and Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
26. participation
Do you think towards
this systemsocial
willprojects and causes
help to groom ?
responsible citizens and Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
27. better
Do youleaders forsystem
think the our country ?
will dilute the craze for white collar jobs ? Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
28. Do you agree that CCE will improve the education standard in India ? Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
29. Do you think CCE is transparent as compared to traditional examination Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
30. system
Do you ?think CCE is suitable in the Indian context ? Yes ____ No ____ Can't say___
Data
Data Interpretation & Analysis
It is apparant –
ØMajor stakeholders of education perceive Educational
Reforms as a positive change in society.
ØA vast majority of teachers of urban and semi urban
area are in favour of the reforms as they have been able to
comprehend and thus implement them better.
ØThe students and parents stand at a little gap from the
teachers as they still find clarity and complete information
elusive in these reforms.
 ADDRESSING RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
CLARITY OF VISION / CONVICTION of master planner

Careful Planning Communication Stability

Implementation Internalizing
Exploration Dialogue Orientation the change
&
Execution Facilitation

FEEDBACK

MOTIVATION

STUSTAINABLE CHANGE
A passive compliance metamorphoses into
a whole hearted commitment
when all the factors of resistance to change
are overcome.
And the challenges dissolve to become
milestones.
A change is not a bolt to
be tightened into a place
but
a seed to be planted
&
to bear more seeds
towar ds the hope of