Reflection As a new administrator, this book said exactly what I have been saying to my new co-workers. As a 20-year veteran teacher, I have spent many years feeling unappreciated and undervalued. In becoming an administrator, I promised myself I would not forget about the teachers. We are told so often to love on our students, yet we so often forget to love on our teachers. Secret one says everything I have been saying, we have to love our employees. In my job I perform administrative responsibilities for the morning, 4 class periods, then I teach for the afternoon, 3 periods. My goal is to be a full time administrator thus I feel I walk a very thin line. If I speak up to much for the teachers, I am afraid my principal will look
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Feeling valued, important and making connections is essential for any successful company. Beyond that, making connections with one’s peers is essential to life. When connecting with peers, sharing a common vision and purpose, great and powerful conversations happened that often lead to paradigm shifts aimed as improving one’s organization. This is especially true in education. I cannot remember how many times I have sat talking with teachers, listening to their thoughts and ideas, and a brainstorm hits me. This, I believe, is the beauty of working and talking with one’s peers. Through the process the worker feels better, the students benefit and in turn the school …show more content…
Educators in high political position changing agenda have dramatic effects on the system as a whole. Education seems to not stay with anything long enough to see if it t ruly works. In my 20 years I have seen science teaching go from the importance to reading and writing, thus using a textbook, to hands on, not using a textbook, to recipe labs, giving every step clearly stated, to manipulatives to now inquiry. While we change the data measuring device, the ACT, has not changed. We have seen minimal improvement in the ACT with the changes in focus unfortunately, we have not stayed with anything to truly isolate what has caused the variation in ACT scores. With the inquiry based learning and college and career ready standards, it seems the public school are on the right track, if only we could stay with this long enough to truly see its
Feeling valued, important and making connections is essential for any successful company. Beyond that, making connections with one’s peers is essential to life. When connecting with peers, sharing a common vision and purpose, great and powerful conversations happened that often lead to paradigm shifts aimed as improving one’s organization. This is especially true in education. I cannot remember how many times I have sat talking with teachers, listening to their thoughts and ideas, and a brainstorm hits me. This, I believe, is the beauty of working and talking with one’s peers. Through the process the worker feels better, the students benefit and in turn the school …show more content…
Educators in high political position changing agenda have dramatic effects on the system as a whole. Education seems to not stay with anything long enough to see if it t ruly works. In my 20 years I have seen science teaching go from the importance to reading and writing, thus using a textbook, to hands on, not using a textbook, to recipe labs, giving every step clearly stated, to manipulatives to now inquiry. While we change the data measuring device, the ACT, has not changed. We have seen minimal improvement in the ACT with the changes in focus unfortunately, we have not stayed with anything to truly isolate what has caused the variation in ACT scores. With the inquiry based learning and college and career ready standards, it seems the public school are on the right track, if only we could stay with this long enough to truly see its