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Essay On Classroom Accountability

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In my workplace crucial accountability, as described by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler, and Maxwell (2013), is a challenging practice within our department of math teachers and in the school administration in general. I have been the geometry team lead teacher for the past four years and have experienced difficult situations with my superiors and team members in which I have struggled to carry out accountability conversations. On several occasions I have confronted my fears and initiated accountability dialogues with individuals that were not fulfilling their responsibility as part of our geometry team and to my astonishment have discovered the benefits that have resulted if conversations were directed constructively. Patterson et al. …show more content…

One of our teachers has experienced discipline and classroom management issues that have caused students to be frequently changing schedules from her class and begun to overcrowd the other geometry classes. Though I understand that part of the conflict involves the administrations allowance such schedule changes instead of attempting to address the discipline issue, I believe the root cause of the problem is to build a constructive rapport with students without compromising core limitations of behavior and respect. The challenging component of addressing this crucial accountability conversation is how to explain in a constructive and positive manner that part of the reason students misbehave is because we as teachers fail to acknowledge our faults in how we address students. This conflict is not a new situation as it has happened before with other educators in which teachers that are able to build constructive relationships with students tend to become recipients of an influx of students removed from other classes where teachers failed to connect with students with challenging personalities. Learning effective communication tools will help me address this type of accountability conversations and provide quality support towards building a collaborative environment

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