Middle Leader Training Program. Standard 1 Enabling Dispositions - Open-mindedness
FOCUS:
This session will introduce staff to the AITSL Middle Leader's Enabling Dispositions, with a focus on Disposition 1: Open-mindedness.
OVERVIEW:
Excellent leaders with an open-minded disposition are willing to examine and revise their beliefs, by listening to differing points of view and routinely using evidence to check their beliefs about what is happening in their team, school and community. They treat their own beliefs as fallible, and their reasoning as potentially flawed. Their stance is one of intellectual humility – of truth-seeking rather than truth-claiming.
This disposition is important because leaders’ decisions have considerable ethical and practical consequences for the staff and students involved.
Open-mindedness does not require everything to be negotiable at any given time. Excellent leaders are obliged to uphold regulations, policies and Codes of Conduct. Excellent leaders also have obligations to uphold collective decisions and to challenge those who undermine teamwork by ignoring such decisions.
At the same time, they are open-minded in the sense that they listen to criticism of such decisions and accept the possibility that revision may be needed in future.
PRESENTER:
Dr. Mathilda Joubert
- Date:
- Tuesday, July 1, 2025
- Time:
- 10:00am - 11:00am
- Time Zone:
- Sydney, Melbourne (change)
- Campus:
- All campuses
- Audience:
- All teaching staff School leaders
- Categories:
- Our Thriving Community
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