Shanaya's Research to Change
Monday, March 25, 2013
EDLD 5398 - Internship Reflection
During my internship, I gained a lot of knowledge as well as in the program at Lamar University. I gained experience by shadowing the administration at my school and I was also able to gain more experience while taking on leadership roles throughout the campus. I feel this experience strengthen me not only as an instructional leader but also as person. I have enjoyed my internship and courses and look forward to putting the knowledge I've gained into use really soon! :)
edld 5398 - Three Year Professional Development Plan
Goal
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TExES
Competency and Domain
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Objective
(What do you want to improve?)
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Course Work/Book/
Workshops
(How do you want to improve?)
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Mentor
Professional Support
(Who will help you improve?)
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Date of
Completion
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Evaluations
(How
will you know you have improved?)
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1
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Domain I
Comp. 001
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I want to improve the campus culture by implementing a
stronger vision of learning that is shared by the all stakeholders.
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I will study my leadership books, attend any workshops
offered through my district or region service center. I will work to improve
the culture by implementing programs for teacher collaboration, team
building, community outreach, and parent connections.
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Cedric Sewart (AP at Reed Academy)
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To be mastered by the end of May 2014
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I will see an improved moral among teachers, new
business/community partners and more parental involvement.
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2
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Domain II
Comp. 4
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Participate in technology meetings for district, such as
budget meetings and train the trainers seminars.
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District Technology trainings
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Technology Specialist, Rick Melby
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To be mastered by the end of May 2015
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CPE hours and professional development certificates will
be used for documentation.
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3
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Domain II Comp. 5
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I will facilitate the use and integration of technology,
telecommunications and information systems to enhance learning through by
becoming a curriculum assistant principal .
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I will continue to take technology classes and improve my
skill of teaching others how to implement technology in the classroom. I will
increase trainings to teachers and conducting professional development
classes on my campus.
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Cedric Sewart (AP at Reed Academy)
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To be mastered by the end of May 2016
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I will have the skills, experience and confidence to
become a curriculum assistant principal pushing more technology in valuable
instruction in the classroom.
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EDLD 5398 - Campus Supervised Summary and Validation Report
Campus Supervised Summary and Validation Report
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Directions: This report should
summarize all Campus Supervised Internship Activities that have been completed.
You will document your activities on
this form and submit the completed form in your 12th course.
·
The
Internship requires a minimum of 150 campus supervised internship activities.
These activities should match the candidates’ Internship Plan activities.
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The
intern must use the 38 leadership activities, located in their textbook
(pages 22-65) as the starting point for these activities. There needs to be a
minimum of 38 Campus- Supervised entries that encompasses the 38 leadership
activities and nine competencies. *Educational
Technology Leadership candidates must include the 33 ISTE Technology Performance Indicators associated with the eight
Technology Facilitation Standards in addition to the 38 principal leadership
activities.*
· All columns are required for completion of form.
· Name ___Shanaya Kuykendahl____________________
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Total
Number of hours ____205 hours__________________
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State Competency Standard/ISTE Technology Facilitation Standard
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Skills and Experience Area/ ISTE Performance Indicator
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Date Completed
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Time Spent on Activity
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Description of Activity
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Reflection (150 words or less detailing what you have learned from
this activity)
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SBEC-Domain I
Competency 001
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Vision and Mission
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August 2012
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40 hours
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Help with master schedule
to make sure that is conducive to campus vision and mission
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Working on the master schedule was very time consuming consisting of
reviewing several documents to plan the official schedule of the campus. I worked on the master schedule for two school
years starting August 2011. My campus
vision is to find a mission is to use our data as much as possible to drive
instruction. The four core classes are important to make sure that there is
enough time allotted for them.
Reading/Writing must be allotted double time slots to ensure adequate
learning. All students must have a PE
period and an elective.
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SBEC-Domain I Competency 001
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Strategic Planning
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August 2012
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3 hours
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Develop strategic plan for my action project.
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After speaking with my campus supervisor Dr. Stewart, we decided the
best project for me to assist the campus would be working on increasing
parental involvement. We collectively
decided that this would be a good project as well as benefit the campus.
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SBEC-Domain I Competency 001
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Strategic Planning
Data Collection & Analysis
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May 2012
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10 hours
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Seek to
improve the use of assessment data and use data to implement interventions
for students
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Research based interventions are the best to improve student
achievement. In order to find out what
intervention is best for my campus, it is important to use data such as
assessments, grades, and possible interventions to see what intervention
would be best to implement on campus.
This will drive instruction and determine tutoring needs.
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SBEC-Domain I
Competency 004 and 014
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Effective Communication
Staff
Development/Adult Learning
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May 2012
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10 hours
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Plan, implement, and evaluate a staff development on effective
classroom practices.
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Staying current with effective classroom practices is important to
student achievement. I administered 4
two hour professional developments during the school year on effective
classroom practices. Before each
development I had to plan and use feedback to adjust the next professional
development.
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SBEC-Domain I
Competency 005
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Collaborative Decision Making
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June 2012
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20 hours
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Attend and participate in Campus Improvement Committee
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I participated on the campus improvement committee where we worked to
improve student achievement. WE met
monthly and discuss various ways to improve the campus.
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SBEC-Domain I
Competency 006
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Collaborative Decision Making
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May 2012
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2 hours
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Attend an administrator meeting and actively engage in the
collaborative decision making process
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I attended an administrator meeting where all administrators
collaborated. They shared ideas and
found new ways to address issues on the campus.
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SBEC-Domain II
Competency 007
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Analyzing the Curriculum
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July 2012
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20 hours
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Work on the curriculum writing team to decision the curriculum for
next year and make sure we are aligned with state standards.
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I worked on the curriculum writing in the summer to make sure that
the curriculum was aligned to what was being taught in the classroom. Guidelines were made to assist teachers
with instruction.
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SBEC-Domain II
Competency 009
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Supervision of Instruction/ Instructional Strategies
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April 2012
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10 hours
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Perform classroom walkthroughs and evaluate instruction in the
classroom and provide constructive feed back to the teachers
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I assisted the principal with walkthroughs and evaluating instruction
in the classroom. This helped me as a
teacher and an administrator.
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edld 5398 week 4 Compentencies 8-9
Week 4, Part 1 Assignment:
Reflections on Domain III Competencies 8-9
Domain
III
Competency
008 - The principal knows how to apply principles of effective
leadership and management in relation to campus budgeting, personnel, resource
utilization, financial management and technology use.
Through the
course of this competency, I found I completed this component being a part of
the site based decision making team (SBDM).
Each year, the school's SBDM committee along with the campus improvement
team (CIP) determines the best use for the school's budget to best serve the
students' needs. For unforeseen
expenses, the committees will review, revise, and make adjustments as
needed. The committee also decides which
assets are allocated when and where.
Teachers requesting certain resources may submit their requests to the
SBDM committee where they will be reviewed and determined if the need is
beneficial to student learning.
I spent about
40 hours on this competency because this is a major role of a principal. Instructional leaders are required to monitor
spending and adjusting plans by making sure funds are used efficiently for
meeting the needs of the students within the district. One of the most important aspects of being an
administrator that I have learned from my internship experiences in this area
has been the need to listen to your staff, as they have a working knowledge of how
best to make daily operations better, and then to trust them to take your
decisions and make them work.
Competency 009 - The principal knows how to apply principles of leadership and
management to the campus physical plant and support systems to ensure a safe
and effective learning environment.
As an administrator, it is imperative
that you have a working knowledge of all of your facilities and trust your
maintenance, custodial and administrative staff to take care of the day-to-day
issues. If you can trust to notify you of
any assistance they need, this will help maintain the facility. Safety of the students and staff is
imperative, and any issues that affect these groups needs to be addressed
immediately. In addition, development and
planning of a crisis management program and practice of safe and secure
procedures are mandatory. These drills
are practiced routinely every month to ensure the safety of the school and all
students.
In this competency, I had about 10 hours
in learning the 009 competency. I modeled strategies for teaching legal and
ethical use of technology in the classroom as stated in the district’s
acceptable use policy. Through the use of videos and presentations, I taught
staff members about cyber ethics, internet safety and copyright laws. In addition, I applied technology resources to
the staff on how to differentiate instructions based on the individual needs of
all my students. During my internship, I
assisted teachers with appropriate technology materials, equipment, strategies,
and resources to address the diverse needs of students.
EDLD 5398 - Competencies 1-7
Week 3, Part 1 Assignment: Reflections on Domain I
Competencies 1-3
DOMAIN I: School Community Leadership
Competency 001 – The principal knows how to shape campus
culture by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and
stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by the school
community.
During the course of this internship, I spent over
60 hours in a variety of leadership activities that
led to approaching the mastery of this competency. I learned the importance of
creating a positive campus culture that allows for collaboration between
colleagues and stakeholders that provides for a environment and climate that
ensures high expectations and success. Collaborating with others gives the
leader an opportunity to take ideas to a higher level from the input of
others.
One activity that I completed was
serving on the Campus Improvement Team.
The CIT provides strategies and procedures to implement and assess
successful achievement of community, campus, and district vision for teaching
and learning within the district. I have
actively collaborated with administrators and campus leaders to facilitate more
trainings of aligning district curriculum to improve student achievement.
In addition, I actively participated on
the campus’s discipline committee that worked hard at controlling and
maintaining discipline issues on the campus.
The focus is on ensuring that there is a plan of action in place to
promote good behavior versus improper behavior. This committee included all stakeholders
that are committed to having a positive campus culture that supports student
learning.
Competency 002 - The principal knows how to communicate
and collaborate with all members of the school community, respond to diverse
interests and needs and mobilize resources to promote student success.
As lead 5th grade math
teacher, I have spent numerous hours working on several projects and committees
that assist teachers and students. My mission is to be the liaison between
administration and teachers in our department and collaborate with other
departments to cross content collaborate.
I also communicate various administrative and instructional and
directives from the principal to the staff in order to communicate the goals of
the campus. This allotted me the
appreciation of working with the diverse characteristics of the stakeholders in
the community to improve students’ achievement.
I implemented a parental involvement
committee that worked diligently in getting parents more involved in students’
success. This committee included all
stakeholders that were motivated to improving student achievement. The goal is to get parents actively
involved in education, extra-curricular activities, and school events to
improve the campus culture overall.
Competency 003 - The Principal knows how to act with
integrity, fairness and in an ethical and legal manner.
An instructional leader must always act with
integrity, fairness and in an ethical and legal manner. Often principals’ ethical standards are put to
test but it is important to stay ethical at all times. I had to model fairness
when dealing with student discipline, apply the rights to all students equally,
and keep information confidential. I learned from my internship that it is the
responsibility of a leader to do what is right even if others may not agree
with the decision. I will be an advocate
for all students ensuring their rights are protected and have equal
opportunities to be in educational environment where learning occurs.
As the principal, I always will be in
compliance with The Code of Ethics and Standard Practices for Texas Educators
and report any violations. The laws, and
policies, and procedures must be administered in a fair and reasonable manner. The instructional leader must remember that
he/she is there to serve as an advocate for all children. My entire internship as well as my teaching
career, I was able to master the competency.
This was not difficult since I always practice integrity, fairness and
am ethical in all situations.
Week 3, Part 2: Reflections on Domain II Competencies 4-7
Domain II
Competency 004 - The
principal knows how to facilitate the design and implementation of curricula
and strategic plans that enhance teaching and learning; ensure alignment of
curriculum, instruction, resources, and assessment; and promote the use of
varied assessments to measure student performance.
As an instructional leader it is
important to monitor students’ progress thru
student’s learning, the quality of the student’s work, and the degree of
implementation of teaching and learning strategies through multiple data sources. Through the course of this competency, I
found myself to be extremely data driven.
The use of a variety of assessment and the observation approach to
collect evidence of learning is an important factor where analyzing the data is
needed. Reflection should be given to the curricular
and strategic plan on a regular basis when reviewing data so that any
adjustments needed can be made immediately.
Throughout the
year I spent over 40 hours working on this competency. I continuously attended professional
development on analyzing data and collaborating on how to improve student
achievement in deficit areas. I also
provided trainings to the math department on materials that I learned at
district and out of district staff development.
I also lead the search on finding more resources to implement the
strategies to improve student achievement for the campus.
Competency 005 - The principal knows how to advocate, nurture, and
sustain an instructional program and a campus culture that are conducive to student
learning and staff professional growth.
During the course of my internship, I not only
worked as part of the campus and discipline committee to improve student
achievement but I also worked as an interventionist for underachieving
students. I worked with the students
that were not successful on district benchmarks every six weeks to help improve
the gaps in academics these students needed.
I was also responsible for finding the best resource of intervention
that was beneficial to each student.
I also had the opportunity to be a part of my
campus’s Professional Learning Community. In PLC, we collaborated, shared and
communicated on great ideas to use in the learning environment. Facilitate
the development of professional learning communities to support instructional
improvement and change is important to the nurture of a good staff. By analyzing the instructional needs and
allocating resources effectively and equitably to the teacher, the student’s
needs are met. Overall this improves the
campus culture in the goal of improving student achievement.
Competency 006 - The
principal know how to implement a staff evaluation and development system to
improve the performance of all staff members, select and implement appropriate
models for supervision and staff development, and apply the legal requirements
for human resource management.
PDAS is the instrument tool used to evaluate
teachers in my district. During my
internship, I was warranted the opportunity to participate in doing various
teachers evaluations by doing walkthroughs.
Prior approval from participating teachers was given before the
walkthroughs. A few teachers allowed me
to sit in on their final evaluation and summative with the principal. It was a great experience because I saw the
great deal of experience a principal has in the competency.
Also in this competency, I was able to sit in on the
interview committee. I was able to see
the process of how new teachers were selected and all of the criteria behind
it. I was actually given the opportunity
to give feedback and suggestions on the qualifications and opinions of
applicants. My opinion, as well as the
others on the committee, was vital to the selection of the new teachers. It was important to select someone that was
qualified and fits with the current campus culture.
Competency 007 - The
principal knows how to apply organizational, decision-making, and problem
solving skills to ensure an effective learning environment.
An instructional leader has to possess
skills in organization, decision making and problem solving to have an
effective learning environment. Continuous
professional development is the way to keep current with these skills. Staff development is a process that seeks to
promote professional and individual growth and development for all
stakeholders. Staff development
activities should be research based, mission and vision driven, quality
activities that are meant to lead to high levels of student learning.
My internship has provided my opportunity
for me to demonstrate my abilities to manage group of students, parents, and
staff to ensure the maintenance of an effective learning environment. One
of the activities I spent some time was serving on the district improvement
committee and conducting a comprehensive needs assessment. This committee examined data for curriculum,
instruction, and assessment. Overall, a
principal must possess great problem solving and decision making skills to
guide and lead the campus to a path of student success.
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