Scenario #1
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Managing and Overseeing
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Coaching and Mentoring
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Building and Supporting Community
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Issues
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Effective communications
not established
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Clarify expectations
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Not much of a
mentoring relationship has been established
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Learn your
staff
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Develop a
shared vision
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learn and
understand staff did not take place
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create opportunity
for shared experience
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Strategies
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Staff meeting
needs to be held to make clear the vision for the program
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Build a report
with the staff
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Clearly state
vision
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Set up opportunity
for staff to interact other than during work
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Scenario #2
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Managing and Overseeing
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Coaching and Mentoring
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Building and Supporting Community
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Issues
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Expectations not
clear
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Training that
help teachers learn and grow
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After facing
rejection by teacher director gave up
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Environment is
not designed to promote sense of belonging
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Stratagies
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Set clear
expectations on how the program views the importance of organization
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You must fin
affective ways to reach all staff members
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Assign staff
members research on whether the environment affects learning
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Appropriately provide
feedback to the teacher about the mess
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Develop a
shared vision between teachers and students
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Clean the room
and hall
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In scenario 1, I also believe that a lot of clear communication needs to occur between the staff and the director. The visions and goals need to be stated so that everyone is on the same page. Getting to know your staff is very important in order to understand their point of view. How would you build a report with the staff? What would you do to support the other teacher’s ideas? What if the staff does not agree with your vision and opinions?
ReplyDeleteIn scenario 2, does the teacher feel pestered or attacked? Why does he not listen to what the director says? What is he so passionate about? Why is he passionate about it? How can the director work and mentor the teacher by including his philosophy and views? I agree that the expectations of the program and cleanliness is a important aspect of the school. But how can we look at the teachers view and incorporate it into the classroom besides giving the children freedom to govern their own cubbies?
For Scenerio #1, I agree with you about the lack of communication. It's hard to believe such things like this could happen in a school setting. Having meetings is a great way to start, the teacher and the director are able to go over a few things and maybe try to see eye to eye. The director needs to make sure that the teachers don't walk all over him/her and meetings are a way where everyone can share how they feel with each other without any confusion. With the lack of communication, i can clearly see why there is no respect for the director. Over all I had similar answers to yours and I think meetings and just talking to the staff (even one on one) may help with communication and there for help with building a respectful relationship and a better team.
ReplyDeleteWith scenario #2, I feel like the expectations were clear but the director easily gave up. He/she wasn't able to back up what he/she said about keeping the area clean. Looking at everything being so disheveled, it doesn't creating an inviting environment and it doesn't teach children to clean up after themselves. Afterall they are just children, it's great to have them make thier own choices but as teachers we should guide them. So as for the director, backing down and dropping the subject wasn't a strong thing to do. They definitely need to figure out what it is that they want to achive and have a compromise so that the area isn't messy and stinky.
Yes, for both scenarios the staff should be reminded as to what the program policies are as well as the expectations you as the director have for them as teachers. For the first scenario with Mary Beth and Katrina, what type of opportunities would you set up for the teaching staff to interact with each other? How often would you say these opportunities need to take place? As for the second scenario with Michael, what would be an appropriate way to talk to him about the mess? Also, do you think it would be appropriate to add in parents/families into the mix of sharing a vision of organization and cleanliness? In attempt to create a community feel to the strategy, how could the other teachers, their students, and the families of the school work together to ensure a clean, safe, and organized learning environment for the children?
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