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EDU 3083 Leadership and Professional Development of Teachers
EDU 3083 Leadership and Professional Development of Teachers
EDU 3083
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Introduction
To nurture is to nourish. Nurturing a child encompasses all aspects of
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When
However, professional
development that focuses on teachers analyzing the specific skill and concept theyll
teach in their discipline is not only well-received by teachers, but has also been
shown to improve both teacher practice and student learning (Bland de la Alas and
Smith, 2007; Carpenter et al., 1989; Cohen and Hill, 2001; Lieberman and Wood,
2001; Merek and Methven, 1991; Saxe, Gearhart, and Nasir, 2001; Wenglinksky,
2000; McGill-Franzen et al., 1999; Darling-Hammond et al., 2009.
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Definition
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recurrency, notifications and so on. These can be lumped together broadly into the
basic activities of task management (Wikipedia, 2014).
According to Kelly (2014), in schools, the management tasks that require
teachers participation and contributions include:
a) Meeting Professional Obligations:
Every teacher must meet certain professional obligations depending on their
school, their district, their state, and their area of certification. These
obligations might range from something as mundane as hall duty during their
planning period to something more time consuming like participating in
professional development opportunities required to get recertified. Further,
teachers might be asked to sponsor a club or chair a school committee. All of
these require a teacher's time and are a required part of a teaching career.
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Many new teachers find that this are of teaching is what scares them the
most. However, a couple of tools if properly used can really help you create
an effective classroom management policy. These tools include posted rules
combined with a posted discipline policy all of which are consistently and fairly
enforced. If you are not fair or do not follow through with your posted policies,
you will have a very hard time keeping a well-managed classroom.
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that everything that comes from these sources is easily accessible whenever
needed.
b) Gather all documents of the same purpose of nature in the same file. This is
almost similar to the explanation above. However, this may also include other
documents such as from any workshops, seminars or book programs.
c) Sort the information or files. This also includes files in my laptop. As a SPTA, I
need to issue a lot of letters to parents, schools, PPD, JPN or even the
surrounding societies. Therefore, if the documents are not sorted accordingly,
I may have to re-do almost every letters every time they are needed.
2. Organizing Management Meetings
Management meetings must be organized regularly so that the members of
the PTA are informative and know exactly what is going on within the school ground.
The meetings are the best platform to keep them informative and at the same time to
exchange information and views on how to help the school develop form time to
time.
Basically, the management meetings should be organized at least 4 times a
year depending on the necessity and programs. Most organizations use meetings in
the course of their work, and these meetings can be successful or unsuccessful,
depending on whether they are managed properly. Managers must learn to properly
organize and conduct meetings to contribute to organizational effectiveness. There
some preparations that need to be done before a meeting can take place. They are:
a) Issuing calling letters:
In order to organize successful meetings, SPTA must first issue a calling letter
to all members, including the teachers who are selected during the Annual Meeting.
This letter must be issued at a week from the meeting date. For this calling letter, the
SPTA can simply sign it as it does not involve any financial information.
b) Previous Minute Report:
It is always easier to provide a copy of the previous minute report attached
with the calling letter to all members prior to a meeting. This will give everyone
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concerned a little bit of time to complete their chores so that when the meeting is in
progress, they can report their progress.
Besides that, providing the minute report especially the one that contains
financial statement will give the members a room to study the flow and thus suggest
any methods to increase income or to ask for clarification as to where and how the
money have been spent.
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Almost similar to the explanation above, the SPTA must, from time to time
present an online data to the PPD and JPN. This has nothing to do with SARANA,
but more to attendance records of every program as stated in the portal.
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Reflection
In strength wise, I have been holding the post as SPTA since March 2006.
From then, I have developed a well understanding on how to run the PTA efficiently
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and effectively. Although there are times that I needed second opinions on how to
run the association, I still managed to complete them as I have a wonderful team of
teachers and PTA members who are willing to help me organizing any event in a nick
of time. In fact, during the first year, I was given a lot of coaching and guidance by
almost everyone so that I can get the job done right. It was truly a blessing for me,
because without everyone who always supports me, I wouldnt be able to organize
any single event then and would still be crawling at this point.
The weakness that I do notice is that, I still do not have what it take to take my
school PTA to compete in district level or state level. As PTA is now have more
functions than what it used to be around 10 years ago, I should take the challenge to
bring recognition to both my school and PTA. It is, for a fact, will involve a lot of
preparations and supports, but I am more than sure that everyone around me will
always provide me a helping hand throughout everything.
In terms of acquiring knowledge and new skills, PTA has served me a lot of
professional development especially when dealing with parents. Parents, although
may seem friendly and easy going, can also be too critical at the same time. They
tend to find the teachers mistakes rather than confronting the right person to solve
their childrens problems. In fact, they could be way too defensive and may not
accept their faults or their childrens.
Lucky for me, while holding this post for as long as 8 years now, I now have
the advantages to talk during the annual meeting, where I can share my part of story
and share what its like in the classroom walls. Sometimes, parents would not
understand and tolerate their incompetence when we pin point them individually, but
as whole or in general, it is easier for them to take it.
I still hope that, this post will teach me more professional skill and help to
develop in the future. At first, I felt too reluctant to give it my all, but now I hope
nothing more than to continue holding the post for at least until I can bring
recognition to my school. Its nothing fun especially with all the workload, but I do
enjoy myself as I knew I have instil professional growth along the way.
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Reference
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