My metacognition of this chapters and the associations it brings to me, as I move into an educational leadership position lend me a new pair of lens for the need for schools to properly establish a strategic technology plans to oblige administrators and the leadership team with a blueprint to transform schools, particularly the one I currently work at. My school is working diligently to continue to make strives and efforts in phases which we failed to execute appropriately in the first phase due to time constraints. I strongly foresee the need to monitor progress on-going and precisely indicate who is responsible for both monitoring and implementation as my school transition into a blended learning digital learning culture and climate …show more content…
This approach will make room for at-risk and struggling students an opportunity to substantial make gains when the technology is used appropriately in the classroom and give teachers a chance to truly give time to differentiate instruction while circulating between the desks providing guidance to reach all students especially those who need additional support. This definitely means leadership teams must thoroughly plan the implementation to ensure the inflation of the use and impact of technology among students. This approach is a blended learning movement to create a culture of leaders, teachers, and students the opportunity to interact with digital tools. Along with this approach, come provisions for a suitable amount of professional learning expectations. However, there is a copiousness of Web 2.0 software, apps, and smart notebook interactive boards for 21st Century teachers and the digital students they teacher that support the blended
By joining an online community of educators who are all teaching and learning, we can post questions about our struggles and benefit from the suggestions given from other educators who may have experienced similar circumstances in their time of teaching. The topic of collaboration and the community of the school does relate well in the reading of this article by sharing how digital connections can engage and enhance your knowledge because the key to becoming a 21st-century instructor is to become a 21st-century learner (Ferriter,
More importantly, the outcome of this study can be a measure to help stakeholders establish whether there is a need to design and implement teacher technology training. Therefore, providing a structured online support network (OSN) can prepare, assist, and support teachers with becoming agents of implementing and utilizing innovative and available technology resources (Blau & Peled,
It is an honor to be selected to apply to the National Honor Society. One of the values that the National Honor Society has is leadership. To be a leader, one needs to be flexible, have strong communication skills, courage, responsibility, and must be tough-minded, but fair. Over the summer I worked at an adventure ropes course in Kittery, Maine. Our staff is based on two values, teamwork and leadership.
By putting this recommendation into action now, I expect to become more connected to my coworkers, more visible to upper management, and more capable of making effective decisions in future leadership positions. Finally, my third change will be taking a more energetic approach to furthering my education, so I am able to have the skills I need to make effective decisions with the two-up, two-down approach in mind (Schmalz, 2015, np). In order to understand the goals and motivators of those above me, I need to learn more about their responsibilities and habits. Running Head: C200 TASK 2: LEADERSHIP ANALYSIS 11 “Leadership behavior stems from habitual neural pathways that are developed over time.
Introduction The Seaboard School District will adopt a blended learning environment for the upcoming 2017-2018 school year. The faculty and administrators have read Blended and committed to the implementation of the suggested pedagogy and philosophy. To maximize the effectiveness of this initiative, the technology department will provide professional development on the first day of the school year and clearly define expectations that will be monitored and assess throughout the year. In recent years, the combination of research, federal and state interest in performance based evaluations for teachers, has led to significant changes, most notably the inclusion of student achievement outcomes as part of that measurement (Gallagher, 2004).
Leadership is an innovative process that aligns professionals with a goal, objective or vision statement. Leadership is defined as emerging and supporting a vision for instructing by learning and communicating a visional statement effectively. Leadership exemplifies the art of leading others to deliberately create a result. In leadership, leaders display themselves as a guiding tool for others in this case for teachers. In leadership, it is important that leaders coordinate the effective management of resources, namely time, material and people, to ensure that they are conveying an effective teaching and learning environment.
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Although there are several fields in education I am passionate about, educational technology is what I am particularly interested in. The use of technological tools and media to make every student's online learning experience personal and engaging more than just a paper and pencil type of learning is something I would like to research on. I’d like to enhance features of communicating knowledge and exchange by exploring the possibilities of virtual interactions of students with other students for more active learning online. I am also interested in enhancing existing learning management system. Most if not all learning management system currently available for elementary and high school students are only supplemental tools for instruction and or used to recover credits on some classes that a student may have failed and will help them catch up.
The articles on both school leadership and ASCD emphasized the vitality of leadership in the learning environment. School leadership continues to play a substantial role in educating students. The Wallace Foundation has examined the role principals play in creating opportunities for successful learning outcomes. Principals create the climate for effective students’ learning, they are responsible for the professional development of teachers as well as hiring trained teachers (www.wallacefoundation.org). Principals benefit in a remarkable manner when they participate in a preparation program that will nurture and mold their leadership character.
Topic: The Focused Leader Goleman, D. (2013). The focused leader: How effective executives direct their own and their organization’s attention. Harvard Business Review, pp. 51-60.
Reflective Journal Leadership, Professional Knowledge and Ethical Practice What is one prevalent issue in early childhood education today? Explain both sides of the debate regarding this time. When I begin teaching at Head Start 18 years ago I only needed a high school diploma.
Leadership Journal Report Assignment Skills Inventory: The skills inventory, which includes technical, human, and conceptual skill, helps me to measure my three leadership competencies of me. It lets me to understand how my skills separate to three leadership skill approaches. According to our textbook, although all of three skills are important to leaders, the importance of each skill varies between different management levels. By scoring it, I got 19 in technical skill, 21 in conceptual skill, and 25 in human skill, which is the highest one.
Reading Richard F. Elmore’s article on “Building a New Structure for School Leadership” has provoked many thoughts I have about our modern era in education, the Standards-Based ERA. In order to better explain what impressions this article made on me, I will be answering the following four questions: 1. How relevant is this article to today? 2. What do I agree with in this article?
The second educational technology business to be used in this multi-case study is, Summit Learning. Summit Learning is a developing free online personalized tool that allows students in grades 6 to 12 to set and track customized learning goals. The Summit Learning Platform was an evolved idea of Summit Public Schools, conceived by Dian Tavenner in 2012. Tavenner, who is the founder and CEO of Summit Public School, a charter management organization (CMO) in California and Washington State, decided to move all schools under the CMO to a student-centric model. As leaders of Summit Schools attempted to put together personalized learning software to support Tavenner’s proposed learning design, they quickly found the process to be difficult.
Teachers are the life-blood of school districts across the United States. They are masters of their specific grade-level content and work tirelessly to manage the learning and well-being of their students. Teachers are the academic leaders of the learning environment within their classrooms and collaborate with their students throughout the year in order to facilitate learning, and foster creativity and problem solving. However, over the last thirty years, teacher leadership has taken on a whole new meaning.