In the proposed scenario, the teacher was coming from a special education classroom, where she taught for three years. She has transitioned to a third grade classroom where she has been for eight years. It appears that each time the administrator has visited the classroom any suggestions or comments that were left in her mailbox were ignored. There are some unanswered questions for this scenario. Third grade is a big year for reading. This teacher’s end of the year data isn’t included in the information and I think that this has to be considered when approaching the evaluation. We also do not know what kind of health concerns this teacher is facing. Are these concerns ongoing or just something that she faced in the past? Given the …show more content…
This may need to be addressed in a face to face manner, where both parties have a chance to express concerns and expectations. If the communication isn’t there, then the administrator has to shoulder some of the fault for the teacher’s response or lack of a response to the feedback. Another area to be addressed would be teacher accountability. In the end the teacher is responsible for the happenings inside his or her classroom. One of the most important things administrators can do, is hold teachers accountable. In this scenario we don’t know if the things that this teacher overlooked like the misspelled words, grammatical errors, and failure to update bulletin boards, are impacting learning inside the classroom. If they are impacting learning, then it should be addressed with the teacher. If these are expectations that have been established and are not being met, then the teacher should be held accountable. Accountability will challenge teachers to grow and reflect on the happenings inside their classroom. Administrators must offer the appropriate amount of support to go along with this expectation of accountability. Accountability without support will lead to failure or frustration. That frustration or failure affects everyone involved in the learning process.
The last component to this evaluation process would be to
Or the head teacher may send out an email explaining changes to staff and other member’s working at the business. There are many ways that the head teacher can communicate with staff member.
A part of my job as administrator is to work with students on keeping ethical standards throughout their lives. I work with others at my school to instill character building skills. We have a character word for the month that is posted in every classroom and other parts of the school. Part of my job as an administrator will be to work with teachers and how they relate to the students. During my Successful School Observation I was able to pick up on the teachers’ attitudes about teaching with the way they spoke to the students and about the students. Most of the teachers were working really well with the students. There were two or three who, if I was their administrator, would be placed on probation or written up because of the way they talk to the students. Belittling students is a big NO! NO! All students deserve to be treated with respect even on our worst days as
However, these minute problems can be fixed over time and with care. To do this, we must first start by addressing the fact that some teachers need an incentive to give more to their students. By not helping teachers out, it is highly likely that they will not give their all in order to educate students. As a result, students fall behind and can not help themselves through the system that was initially designed to weed out the weak. The education system as it is, makes it excruciatingly difficult for students to do well because they do not fit into what is required of them. Although this may be the case, the system is not broken, and in turn, it can be fixed by first addressing the fact that teachers are not as valued as they should be. Although some teachers make it their mission to educate their students, some have a hard time putting in more time than is required of them. In doing so, students cannot get extra help if they need it and eventually end up having a hard time passing. In order to fix the system, we must first deal with the small problems that could cause a large ripple if they are
is a 5thgrade teacher, who in their second semester together, has run into a disruption problem
School governors,the head teacher will report incidents to the governors as they have a responsibility of reviewing school policies and behaviours.
The main area of concern is the notification of violation of expectation, policy, and procedures of the school. With me being the new principal I would make sure that is address in the teacher’s handbook. Once that has been cleared I would check Mr. Flynn’s time sheet for verification to make sure this is not a hear say issue. After I have background knowledge of the issue I and Mr. Flynn’s appraiser will meet with Mr. Flynn to discuss this concern. This meeting will be between just us and the details of the meeting will stay between us and Mr. Flynn’s file. There is no need to go back and discuss this concern with anyone else. The corrected action should speak louder than words. After the conference Mr. Flynn can choose to react in a positive or negative way. A positive consequence that could come out of this is that there could be a new
My response to this DQ is a situation that actually happened at the school I work at. At that time our district used a Co-op to provide Special education services such as speech, physical, and occupational services. After the speech pathologist we had for years moved out of state, a replacement was hired to take her case load. In the classroom I worked in at the time only had one student in need of a speech pathologist, but there were other students in the building she would see also. After a few week we noticed the speech pathologist was not coming to work with our student. The teacher emailed her and was told she had been in meetings and would see us soon. After about two more weeks of not showing up, it was questioned again and the principal looked into it.
r. P1) The classroom teacher is crucial to the development and academic success of the average student, administrators simply are ancillary to this effort.
The guidance counselor stated that the other three teacher could not attend the meeting however they provided a report about Shonquasia’s grades and behavior in each of their class. Ms. Witkers stated, that the other teaches reported that Shonquasia is not doing well in their class, and that she is often caught sleeping and that she has an aggressive attitude toward the teacher and her peers. MS. Witkers stated, that the other teacher reported that Shonquasia is not complete assignment and homework. RORC teacher reported that Shonquasia is fail his class because she refuse to wear her uniform. Ms. Witkers, recommended that Shonquasia should be encourage to participate in her class, and to be more respectful to other. Ms. Witkers suggested that consequences for behavior and accountability should be reinforced in the classroom and at home. Per mom Shonquasia does not like to be told what to do and that Shonquasia is capable of getting better grades, however she do not want to put in the work required to get better grades. Per mom Shonquasia likes to do her own thing and it is very difficult for her to punish Shonquasia for bad behavior. Per mom, since last CFT meeting Shonquasia s behavior at home and in school has not
Monday, January 29, 2018, was my first day at Saraland High School and it was my first day of observations. Saraland High School is located in Saraland, Alabama where it is a part of the Saraland City Schools School System. Saraland High School has a student population of approximately 1,000 students. The teacher that I will be observing for this semester is Mr. Kendric Cook. Mr. Cook teaches Health to 10th graders. Mr. Cook has been teaching and coaching for 6 years and this is his first year teaching at Saraland. On my first day, I got to observe Mr. Cook and his teaching styles. Mr. Cook told me before he started his lesson that he considers himself to be a non-traditional teacher. He likes to sit at his desk or sit on top of the student desk when he teaches because he really wants to make sure that his students are engaged in the lesson. Mr. Cook told me that when he was in school his health teacher would just sit at his desk and he would not really “teach” and he
Board members are responsible for carrying out disciplinary actions, if the need arises and is beyond what the teacher is capable of handling.
Punishment. Mr. Matherson kept her in from recess, shaking his head, and scolding her. I believe there should be some type of punishment for students. If not students will fill like its okay to do anything they want to without getting into trouble over it.
“You have taken away the discretion of from the teachers and the principles to be able to control their classrooms,” said Malliotakis. “Now you have an environment where students feel they can bring weapons in the classrooms, drugs to schools, they can bully other students, they can disrespect their teachers. We need to restore discipline in the classroom”
Special education creates opportunities for students, parents, teachers and related staff and administrators to work together to improve educational results students with disabilities. IEPs and 504s are the plans that help educators to develop education for each student with disabilities. The IEP is an important legal document that handles issues in special education properly. There are so many rules that school personnel must follow. In this assignment, I will identify effective procedures for documentation and remediation of the teacher, her behaviors and the allegations about her regarding a special education student.
There were two students using iPads with the volume up loud enough to hear as I entered as well. Three students were riffling through a bucket of plastic letters without being entirely successful in finding the letters they were seeking. Two students were using a drawer of foam letters and word cards to put the letters on the corresponding word. The final student was alone just looking at a book herself. The teacher was going back and forth between the groups who were working with letters trying to assist them in picking the correct letters. She would say the sound while feeling her throat and then tell them the letter they needed and find it for them in the box. She went to the group looking in the tub for letters and found letters for them as well. A cause for concern that we noticed was that she was asking the students to sound out the word “said” as well as having written on the board next to the sight words students were spelling that the vowel team ai =e (meaning short e sound). Mrs. Williams though it necessary to jump in at this point and make a correction since she was teaching something contrary to the curriculum and pointed out that sight words like “said” do not follow the rules of phonics always and need to be taught as a whole word. Also during this brief observation we noticed Mrs. M. having difficulty with the student who was alone. She was not engaging in any work after being asked to join the group and instead took a book and hid