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SELF	PUPILS	COLLEAGUES	ENVIRONMENT
Critically engage with the need for ICT-led innovation and the transformative power of positive change.	Shaping and re-shaping ICT-led change in terms of the learning & teaching we provide.	Working with colleagues to introduce and develop innovative uses of ICT in schools and teachers’ wider practice communities.	Contributing to building a culture of informed education change beyond the school; at regional, national and supra-national level.

The importance for teachers of engaging with innovation and developing understanding in relation to the innovation and education ICT policy process

Innovation is widely misunderstood in relation to education. The term is frequently taken simply to mean change/introducing new practice. And this is particularly true of any ‘innovation’ involving ICT. However, it is becoming increasingly clear with time that the value of innovative educational ICT usage is unlocked only when supported by substantial complementary investments in new work practices, the development of new teacher skills, and the establishment and support of new organisational structures to position and sustain transformation. The digital era therefore raises deep issues of strategic reorientation for all involved – for schools, for teachers and school leaders, for teacher training institutions, for regional and national departments of education. This points towards an innovation agenda. But it is not an innovation roadmap. The roadmap involves comprehension of the knowledge society imperative and the deep nature of innovation.