Describe Your Greatest Strength

My greatest strength is Standard 3A, “Recruits, selects, mentors, and retain faculty and staff to accomplish school system goals” (Alabama State Department of Education [ALSDE] 2013, p. 8). For 15 years of my educational career as a workforce coordinator, recruiting workers was my passion. I successfully met the needs of employers and assisted students in obtaining valuable employability skills. Some of my students retained their positions throughout their collegiate endeavors. Many needed employment to help their families. Some just wanted to get out of school early. Regardless, it was a win-win for everyone, employers, students, labor market and humbling to me to make a difference.. Standards 3 B & C were my second greatest strength. In my current position over the past two years, I have the responsible for implementing professional development for our Career Technical educational staff to improve …show more content…
2). I ranked 3 out of 7 in the “Pre-Service Leadership” category. I did not feel capable in the other categories. I need to develop the confidence to be able to create a vision, especially one that could be share by so many. A vison is powerful and important to any learning community. I welcome the opportunity to share with a mentor in developing in this area. Next 1B, “Plans effectively for school improvement, uses critical thinking and problem-solving techniques; collects, analyzes, and interprets data; allocates resources” (ALSDE, 2013, p. 3). Here, I scored primarily in “Pre-Service Leadership” category. Data is something I fear. I try to avoid it at all costs. Education has become so data driven, it is almost impossible to be successful without understanding the data. You must comprehend state and local data that is applicable to you. Your success and failure is reflected in