5a Demonstrate Professional Leadership

Standard #5 – Ethics and Integrity: Education leaders have the knowledge and ability to ensure the success of all students by acting with integrity and in an ethical

In standard 5, leaders should work with integrity and in an ethical manner. The challenge with this standard is understanding how to be fair in all instance and doing the things that are ethical. A lot of other influences can come in and influence leaders the wrong way so they must be able to work with integrity.

Achieving a school district’s mission and vision requires the commitment of its stakeholders. In order to involve them in the process, it is necessary for educational leaders to “motivate staff, parents, students, board and community members” (Educational Leadership Constituencies Council, 2002, p. 4). The transformational leadership theory emphasizes the importance of educational leaders acting as role-models in order to motivate and inspire the school community. This approach has the potential to involve all stakeholders, leading to increased student success (Bush, 2007). The Assistant Director of Special Education in Northwest ISD directly supervised the school district’s assessment staff. Her education, experience, and passion set an example for her subordinates, stimulating them to achieve more, leading to her promotion to Executive Director of Student Services.

As an educator the decisions that are made should be with the students’ best interest in mind. Standard 5 has given me more knowledge and ability to promote the success of all students by acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner. Modeling school principles of self-awareness, safeguarding the values of equity, and diversity, and promoting social justice within the schools are all elements of standard 5.

Our school aims to provide a healthy balance between recognition and consequences. Pupils should learn to expect recognition for positive behaviour and fair and consistently applied consequences for inappropriate behaviour.

Bi Design a template for a personal development plan (PDP) that you could use to improve

Bi Design a template for a personal development plan (PDP) that you could use to improve your learning, development and professional practice. For each heading in the template, provide a brief summary describing what should be included.

A solution has been proposed to raise values of honesty and integrity within a student body. The solution is the establishment of “Honor Codes”. It is said in Source that the success of the honor codes depend on the student body. Cheaters will encourage cheaters or honesty will win. I deeply believe that schools should establish the honor codes because they will set up an educational environment with better student-teacher relationships,

Effective planning involves feedback from the community, clients, and staff, outlining plans, setting goals and strategies that will guide the program on a productive course.   Program planning involves gathering information, making recommendations for a plan, and working with others to develop a plan. Next is to provide funding sources with plan goals and objectives to

I am expected to treat all members of staff and faculty with the upmost respect as well as fellow students. By carefully choosing my language and expression when communicating I demonstrate my regard to their feelings by avoiding any negative or demeaning words or phrases. These actions and responsibilities are not limited to verbal communication and are expected to extend to any correspondence in and out of the classroom and within virtual communication including email, social media, and websites. I will interact through email and forums with the same professionalism used within the classroom.

In an effort to maintain trust, transparency, and professionalism transparency among the players, parents, and organization, communication serves as the main platform. Both verbal and written plans and expectations are necessary to adequately inform each individual. At the start of the program it is necessary to verbally explain the expectations of the player, the parent, and the organization, as each individual has in impactful role in ensuring the success of the program. This will be supplemented with written expectations and agreements as well as the program’s agenda. This ensures that parents know what their child is learning, the children know what to expect at practice and individuals within the organization are held accountable for following through with the completion of set agendas.

Personal Development Plan (PDP) is a specific plan for your future in short-term of six months or twelve months. It is necessary that you have objectives set up for yourself, and plans and actions to be taken in order to achieve those objectives. Following PDP is a good way to improve yourself, and to acquire skills and knowledge. Therefore, it is advisable to continue doing PDP one after another. Also, PDP includes your CV, so you can update it with new experiences or skills acquired.

In what ways do parent and student feedback impact plans for Professional Development? Parents are also teachers of their children. If honest feedback is given to parents, they too can become active mentors and sources of knowledge and training for their children 's professional development. Professional development starts from home with parents who also try their best to give what are best for their children and among them is being parents who teach moral values to their children to become better and responsive individuals.

Professional development principles Ben embraces are Rigor, Relationships, Relevance and Realness. Mr. Rhodes continually emphasizes that work needs to have relevance and rigor in assignments and that the relationships teachers build with students is essential for success. Specific content used for staff development goals are Glenn Singleton’s work (Equity), National Achievement Gap, High Performing Schools, 90/90/90 Studies, 21st Century Skills, Marzano’s Instructional Strategies, and Heidi Hayes Jacobs’ literacy work. A variety of activities for teaching new skills to teachers occurs throughout the year. These include study groups, guest speakers, ERO (staff development classes), open classroom visits, master teachers sharing best practices in literacy, differentiated instruction, , math, and culturally responsive teaching, conference opportunities, mentors, district content area inservices, building inservice days, monthly district content area meetings, partnerships with universities, Collaborative Action Research for Equity (C.A.R.E.) cadre, and monthly building equity meetings. Mr. Rhodes uses the district Teaching Learning Cycle (Plan-Teach-Monitor- Adjust) to evaluate and assess the learning goals and make improvements. Ben also meets with Ben and the leadership team about the goals and creates the timeline to provide training and analyze progress. Evaluation of the learning goals using the SIP (as a living document) and individual goals are important

A school-wide staff development program is an essential blueprint for improving and maintaining student success. Consequently, for administrators to achieve high levels of success, they must actively use a staff development plan to guide decision making around instruction, and resource allocation. Therefore, administrators must understand what constitutes the implementation phase.