A principal ensures the safety of all students and quality of instruction and manages the organization with fairness, equity, and integrity. A school leader makes sound decisions with students at the center. Above all, a principal’s biggest responsibility is being an influential advocate for all…
important role and the influence of a positive school culture during new teachers’ first professional steps” (p. 85). If new teachers do not feel the school climate promotes collaboration and mutual respect, they will be less likely to remain at that campus or may choose to leave the profession altogether. This initial impression plays a significant role in the smooth induction of new teachers. I believe the veteran teachers on our campus do an excellent job of ensuring our new teachers feel…
“It can be speculated that as adolescents grew older, their mothers started to experience the pressures of socializing them in traditional gender roles (Dasgupta, 1998, p.962). This quote relates to me because my mom feels the pressure from the South Asian community to socialize my sister and I as “good wives and mothers”. Majority of the mothers in my family are South Asian Mothers and in the future I will also be a South Asian mother. The Pakistani mothers in my family feel the pressure to…
to a teacher lecture. As a teacher, it is one’s responsibility to teach students the required content in a way that appeals to their unique learning ability. It is also the teacher’s responsibility to guide the students in such a way that they can successfully explore concepts with one another, in other words collaborate with one another. During my time observing a first grade classroom at Model Laboratory School, I was able to witness successful student collaboration facilitated by the teacher.…
intense than elementary school is. Though you have a right to be scared, the transition between the grades goes smoothly and easily. You get a lot more responsibility, and many more opportunities. You have a lot more classes and teachers, and get to make influential decisions. There are three main points to Jr. High: academics, personal responsibility, and social activities. Academics are super important in junior high. One significant thing I recommend is studying. Yes, you have studied…
is a constant. In the duration of my life, responsibility has played a role in shaping who I am today. In all the aspects of my personality and life, responsibility can be seen in one way or another. Naturally, over the course of the past thirteen years, many different areas of my life have changed, and with that, my levels of responsibility and what I take responsibility of. In education, friends, family and even in musicals, I’ve taken responsibility for myself and others, which has helped…
Building an effective team amongst teachers can be a hard task to achieve. Skuza, (2013) recommends that in order to organize an effective team first and foremost roles and responsibilities must be given to each team member. For instance, as a former retail manager I organized teams upon a certain criteria. One criteria was based upon the individual’s values and goals be that as it may pairing individuals with the same goals creates an environment where all team members are working towards a…
The Registry of Interpreters of the Deaf (RID) complied information into this article about educational interpreting. This article gives great back ground information about the qualifications, skills, certification needed, the interpreter’s role, professional conduct, duties of the interpreter may face, briefly describes the laws in place for education, and covers what an Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA) is. This article is a great overview of the standard practice of…
Teacher/Administrative Focus Group The teacher and administrator focus group was conducted on Wednesday, March 1, 2016 before school. Seven participants were included in the teacher and administrative focus group including two teachers from Oilton Middle School, three teachers from Oilton High School, the principal at Oilton High School, and the school counselor. The focus group interview session enabled the researcher to build conversations around specific topics, and allowed the interviewer to…
ideal in this type of classroom. Planning for assessments and grading the students based on ways they can grow, rather than fail is the starting point in assessing these students. Our classroom contains two teachers; one who is a special education teacher, the other is a general education teacher. The students are made up of ELL’s, three with mild disabilities, and one with a serve disability. For our class to grow and exceed it is important each student is given the opportunity to reach their…