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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