ECOMUNDO CENTRO DE ESTUDIO
Internal Assessment of business and
management
How to carry out a change of behavior on Ecomundo
instructors to align them to the IB ideology?
Ariadna Ampuño
IB CODE:
3ro de baccalaureate “C”
July 2011
Research Proposal
Research question:
How to carry out a change of behavior on Ecomundo instructors to align them to the IB
ideology?
Theorical framework
Since 2002 Ecomundo serves the community with the education of their students in the
field of early childhood education, basic science and high schools nationally and
internationally. Since December 2008, Ecomundo is authorized by the International
Baccalaureate Organization to offer the diploma program for students who choose to obtain
their International Baccalaureate. The problem is that their teachers Ecomundo that are part of
the BI, is struggling to continue this program and its rigid directives have not taken the
appropriate decisions to avoid such problems, which affect the institution.
This will be done by an analysis of the problem is to operate a survey to teachers and
former teacher Ecomundo, whether they are part of the BI about the work they do, whether
they like it or not, we feel can improve the Ecomundo to provide better service
than is currently taking place.
Methodology
Primary resource
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Survey teachers IB and professors not IB and your opinion of the IB and its
adaptation to changing the school faced in adopting the IB.
interviewing managers about the change
Secondary resource
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Investigate the school’s web page on certain information
Possible difficulties and solutions
Difficulties
That when present our plan of action the
teacher does not accept this proposal and
wish to withdraw
At the time of the interviews, some explain
that the reasons for which are waived by the
student discipline
Solutions
Explain and demonstrate that this new plan
of action will benefit and improve working
conditions
Discard this information and analyze the
reasons that do not involve students, or if
they are several who have the same reasons,
discipline, interviewing students to give us a
reason to bother the teacher
Plan of action
April
May
June
July
August
Research
proposal and
data collection
Study of
factors and
the work that
teachers do
Analysis of
advantages
and
disadvantages.
Report
Draft
Definitive
work
Acknowledgements
I thank the directors of Ecomundo Centro de estudios for the support they gave me in
interviews and in the approval polls.
I thank all the teachers who assisted with the survey giving their opinion about the project.
Index
Executive summary
Introduction
Methodology and processes
Main data and results
Analysis
Conclusions and recommendations
Annexes
Executive Summary
The aim of this paper is to resolve the internal difficulties of change in methodology applied
in Ecomundo study center. Change is the national high school international baccalaureate,
with all the requirements that the BI requires, which has had to reform its educational
profile, their facilities and the mode change of teachers' work Ecomundo.
To obtain information about the company, its beginnings, the school change, to start the
project, conduct a survey to teachers Ecomundo, who will be part of BI, which do not
participate in BI (especially the arts, sports and Christian formation), and primary teachers,
also conducted interviews with managers Ecomundo. It analyzes the factors, difficulties and
problems faced Ecomundo and how they solved those problems, whether they improved or
worsened the situation or if it suited them or not take such decisions to address these problems
and is having problems and that have not yet resolved. Approaches will apply
the change six for the change that is crossing Ecomundo favorable, not because more
difficulties and problems not yet resolved are resolved so that the BI will develop normally
and smoothly.
After the results, comparing the two situations, for the change is successful and has no
problems develop.
Introduction
Ecomundo study center is an educational institution in Ecuador, which consists of preschool,
primary school and college. Ecomundo has an infrastructure to be a modern educational
institution and the country green.
Facilities as a whole are designed to create the right atmosphere in which students develop
their potential leaders, both in academia as in science, bilingual, sports and deep ecological
consciousness.
But during the process of changing the Ecomundo has had several problems and difficulties
with the change of school, such as having to train their teachers to achieve the requirements to
obtain the required BI which cost them a lot of money because the school was the one
who paid trainings and many of these were done outside the city and / or the country which
the school agreed to pay fare, lodging, etc., except that during such training, the absence of
many teachers miss school courses for almost all day and others were ordered not to attend
classes delaying planning consequently failed to take all the subjects had to die and the lack of
preparation for exams. Ecomundo had to hire new teachers trained in IB subjects and that
their solution was to reduce staff in certain teachers who worked in the field of high school
majors, reducing working hours and reduced school Quito school hours of lesser import
certain subjects as art, sports, Christian formation and education for life in order to complete
the required hours of BI materials but along with that, these teachers had less access to
students who worked on these matters by the simple fact that all subjects of class time
students were important and who agreed to lose important class hours causing poor
performance in the subjects, many of these teachers were frustrated by this situation, some
adapted to change to strength and support the school decided to change, but others resisted the
change and gave Ecomundo causing controversy, so how to carry out a change of Behavior on
Ecomundo instructors to align to the IB Ideology Them?
For our project we will use various tools of information such as interviews, analysis of
advantages and disadvantages within the theory we use the change six Approaches analysis
will allow us to project the possible outcomes of the implementation of this project within the
company so that can avoid these problems.
Procedure and methods
The company has several procedural problems of the change in it, a "chain reaction" of some
decisions that caused several problems, find the risk factors and consequences and implement
an adequate solution to these problems without affecting the BI program.
Among these problems are: the training of teachers, the schedule change, new staff, changing
facilities, resistance to change
The system consists that all must learn the same high school curriculum only in science, with
6 subjects in the BI and 6 subjects in the national program, appropriate to bilingualism (50%
and 50% English Castilian). All tests will be given to our national school and those who
resolve to participate in the evaluation of BI, to voluntarily pay whatever fees it demands of
the International Baccalaureate Organization. Students are not required to apply the tests of
the diploma, that's all 6 subjects, whether it will necessarily need to be certified in two
subjects, for which cover the share rights to the International Baccalaureate. If the tests
applied to the IB Diploma must meet the rates quoted by the OBI.
The basics of the program is that it trains students in critical thinking and logical reasoning
skills and skills to function in a globalized society, with responsibilities for advancement and
entrepreneurship, with investigative spirit, ethical values and moral principles, social
awareness, defender of the environment and our planet.
It plans to develop programs in different subjects, in English or Spanish, provided by the
International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) which allow us to deliver a title to access
internationally accepted without entrance examinations or pre-university courses, hundreds of
universities distributed worldwide.
This schedule will allow us to meet the academic areas proposed by the BI without prejudice
to our educational traditions (the humanities and sciences), or sacrificing corporate objectives.
For this project, we begin with a survey for teachers and interviews with managers Ecomundo,
Doc Ivo Orellana academic vice-rector, Psi. Ligia Cedeno director of secondary education to
obtain information about the changes that have been through Ecomundo to meet the
requirements of BI, just as the difficulties encountered and how they have been solving the.
Similarly there will be an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of implementing the
change six Approaches to see what aspects of the change improves the application and solves
the problems currently facing the company.
Main data and results
The survey results showed that teachers knowing that the Ecomundo credited for the IB was
excited but thought that he was not ready for this school, high school, most said to be
adapted to the program, consider that the institution must provide better pay and benefits
policies but at the same time enable them, consider that most students are not adapted to the
manner of IB and therefore believe that the institution should provide training and improve
the policy for selection of candidates for diploma, most said that the school have had
difficulty, the main, the requirement, compliance and level of commitment,
adaptation, difficulty with homework, pass other students to other schools among others,
and suggested the high school division of IB and IB, curriculum reform from elementary
school, time for the leaders of course. The result of interviews, stressed that the institution
provides training, but motivation, ease of students, the restructuring of pensums
academics, physical part of the school regarding the building has been completed, courses at
lower levels
Analysis
The projection by the forces of change 6 shows details on the points raised by the bare and
interviews can be applied.
• Education and communication: Teachers should be in constant training. If a new teacher
integrates communication and should be trained immediately with all information in the
BI needs.
• Participation and engagement: all must be fully involved, to be partners in change, which
makes the resistance is less, it takes time, some are quick to adapt and others will cost more so
we must have patience as long as willing to change.
• Facilitation and support: the directors and management should encourage and support
their teachers in the change, the institution's help for them to assimilate this change in the best
way, training, orientation.
• Negotiation and agreement: If a teacher or multiple teachers or others who resist change, we
can motivate, ensure job stability and / or give them more vacation prefaces as part of the
institution given in exchange for an excellent performance.
• Manipulation and cooptation: This is a strategy that should be used with care since it has to
appoint a leader of the opposition to help his classmates cope with the change, but the risk
involved is that this leader insists more resistance to change.
• Explicit and implicit coercion: it is to be used as a last resort, which means loss of
employment to workers who resist.
The analysis was based not only on the advantages and disadvantages but that based
on the results of that compares the current situation with the situation Ecomundo
projecting the forces of change and how we can improve or diminish the disadvantages.
Advantage
• Increased awareness, integration and a good development program with less difficulty.
• Teachers have a greater commitment to their students and the institution.
• Managers will have greater knowledge about the work you do and have the opportunity to
interact more with teachers.
• Teachers will have the security and stability of the load of hours and responsibility will
not vary so much easier to assimilate the change.
• Understand the concerns of teachers and try to solve the collaboration of all
Disadvantages
• the leader must help others to change, resist change and opposition grows larger
• That if there are no positive results and have to resort to layoffs that's what you want to stop
this project.
This analysis of the pros and cons about current conditions and presents the six forces of
change. Currently, each teacher has motivated the school does not give it, so if the teacher is
not motivated will not perform properly in the classroom, with the application of the 6 forces
of change the school gives its teachers motivation of which have themselves to perform better
in the classroom if the teacher motivates the institution, the teacher will be an example of
motivation for students in other words, the school encourages teachers
and motivate them to step students, the school" kill two birds with one stone." According to
the survey, to be clear that the commitment to the successful development of IB is all
(administrators, teachers, and students) and the school must take the appropriate action. This
in a process in which we must all change, the motivation does not affect the IB program but it
helps to not fall behind or not develop properly, and in the end everyone has to run to keep up
with the program established IB.
With the implementation of the 6 forces of change, one could say that change is all, the
institution must provide everything necessary for their teachers are prepared for the IB as well
as students, but also provide motivation, teacher has its own motivation, but there are cases in
which teachers are discouraged for reasons that are unknown and these teachers
discourage students, unmotivated students without winning a work disincentive to teaching
the next class, causing it to develop an excellent class students can take advantage of. The
idea of having a specific time for the leader is necessary, leaders cannot spend all his time
deciding whether to continue with their class or listening to their target with a question and be
losing uneven classes to students in their knowledge with the 6 forces change the time of
the ruling would not affect the IB, which consist in about 10-15 minutes before school
or college requires convenient.
Conclusions and recommendations
Improving the process of change that is taking Ecomundo, the change has been quickly but
taking all the parameters and appropriate action, but gave them confidence in themselves,
both managers and teachers who fear insecurity to change, comes to a stand or change
is getting slower and do not take the proper process.
With the application of Six Approaches change, we are smoothing the change, provide
motivation and confidence of teachers and managers, making them fair treatment for them
to accept change positively, without having to use threats or other negative incentives as
shown in the last two forces of change in the resistance to change is so strong that the best
thing to suit the company is to fire those employees, so a negative factor as to dismiss
a teacher is not easy let alone find a replacement that fits quickly and we would be repeating
the same process of change which in many cases like this could be a waste of time and money
generated by troubles at all.
The recommendations that we might provide are as follows, managers could be part of the
motivation of teachers, selection of candidates for the diploma must be taken into account his
record and resume academic discipline and tell if the student is ready to diploma, resume time
they are offered by the course leaders to talk with their target and not miss important
classes for them, emphasizing the need and responsibility of teachers and students.
In conclusion, the six forces of change was much easier to bring in change, and helped us to
realize certain details, which are helpful to employers or in this case teachers to cope with
change and provide us with useful recommendations for change.
Annexes
Sample survey of teachers
1. How did you feel when Ecomundo was accredited to offer the IB program?
a. enthusiasm
b. Concern for the doubts to the program
c. To receive more responsibilities
d. That was not even time for begin the process Ecomundo
2. Do you feel that as a professor Ecomundo has adapted to the change demanded by the International
Baccalaureate?
a. if
b. not
3. What do you consider the institution must provide its faculty to better assimilate the requirements
and procedural changes required by the International Baccalaureate Organization
a. training
b. Cooperation with other college professors friends BI
c. Greater involvement of line managers in members of the educational community to
Ecomundo BI requirements
d. Improving pay and benefits policy
4. Do you feel that Ecomundo students have adapted to the level of demands required by
the International Baccalaureate program?
a. if
b. not
5. What do you consider the institution must provide their students to better as simulate the
requirements and procedural changes required by the International Baccalaureate Organization
a. training
b. Cooperation with other BI college students friends
c. Greater involvement of managers in students Ecomundo align with the requirements of BI
d. Improving the admission of students
e. Improving student selection policy Diplomas candidates
6. Do you think the school has struggled with IB?
a. if
b. not
7. Name some
8. Do you think that currently the school has changed from high school or q aspects need to improve?