I am astounded by the different kinds of teacher leadership available throughout school districts. I have never really given it much thought, but a lot of the things we do on a daily basis can be considered teacher leadership. Teacher leaders have the capacity to improve teaching and learning, as well as the school environment and the profession” (Lowery-Moore, Latimer, & Villate, 2016, p. 1). If everyone works together toward a goal of helping each other within a school district, one might be surprised at the level of achievement and accomplishment taking place When I take a look at the current school district I work in, I am pretty proud of the teacher leadership opportunities that are available to us. “Observing other teachers is a
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As I look at the past five years as a teacher, I have noticed that the goal of the two school districts that I have worked at revolve around improving test scores and making teachers accountable for student learning. We spend a lot of our professional development days going through student’s standardized test scores. We analyzing what sections the students are struggling on and what we can do in our classroom to help close improve student performance. Quite often we are on our own to find strategies and resources to use in our classroom to help increase student achievement. The administration is open to getting the resources you need in your classroom, but quite frankly teachers are frustrated with where to go to find the resources they need. I feel this frustration could easily be put to rest if we had more teacher collaboration within our building, and it could even go as far as within our region of the …show more content…
Shouse & Sutton (2016) explain that “the issue is what teachers are asked to do, not how they are asked to do it” (p. 70). Often times in staff meeting we are told what to do within our classroom when addressing certain issues instead of how we can work together to create a plan of attack. Instead of one person leading the staff meeting, I believe it should be a collaborative effort. I agree, that at times one person may have to facilitate a meeting, but when it comes to addressing the needs of students, I think a collaborative effort would be more
As I look at the past five years as a teacher, I have noticed that the goal of the two school districts that I have worked at revolve around improving test scores and making teachers accountable for student learning. We spend a lot of our professional development days going through student’s standardized test scores. We analyzing what sections the students are struggling on and what we can do in our classroom to help close improve student performance. Quite often we are on our own to find strategies and resources to use in our classroom to help increase student achievement. The administration is open to getting the resources you need in your classroom, but quite frankly teachers are frustrated with where to go to find the resources they need. I feel this frustration could easily be put to rest if we had more teacher collaboration within our building, and it could even go as far as within our region of the …show more content…
Shouse & Sutton (2016) explain that “the issue is what teachers are asked to do, not how they are asked to do it” (p. 70). Often times in staff meeting we are told what to do within our classroom when addressing certain issues instead of how we can work together to create a plan of attack. Instead of one person leading the staff meeting, I believe it should be a collaborative effort. I agree, that at times one person may have to facilitate a meeting, but when it comes to addressing the needs of students, I think a collaborative effort would be more