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The Teacher & The Community, School Culture, and Organizational Leadership (EDUC 101)
The Teacher & The Community, School Culture, and Organizational Leadership (EDUC 101)
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Prepared by:
Magtacpao, Norfaida
Guilla, Katherine
Jamolin, Arjey
Latiban, Lenjean
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6) Other factors
Apart from the factors above, some other factors can
adversely affect children’s learning. Factors like the luminosity of
light, the intensity of noise, and greenery around the home influence
children’s focus while learning.
For example, students find it difficult to read and focus on a
dim light and high bright light, so the light needs to be at optimum
luminosity. The surroundings can highly influence young brains, and
everything present in the learning environment has the potential to
positively or negatively affect the learner’s competence, confidence,
and understanding. Misalignment between the resources and needs
of learners cannot facilitate the process. Instead, it demotivates the
person. The surrounding environment and family should support the
learner, as it is essential for a more in-depth focus and insight into
the particular subject matter.
Being aware of the home environment factors that affect
learning, parents, and guardians should provide a conducive
learning environment to the learner for best learning practice.
B. Demographic changes
Demographic changes refer to the shifts in the
characteristics of a population, such as age, gender, ethnicity, and
socio-economic status, over time. These changes can have a
significant impact on both teachers and the community they serve.
For teachers, demographic changes can mean that their classrooms
are more diverse than ever before. This can present both
opportunities and challenges. On the one hand, teachers may have
the opportunity to learn about and celebrate different cultures and
perspectives. On the other hand, they may need to find new ways to
meet the needs of students from different backgrounds, such as by
providing culturally responsive instruction or adapting their teaching
strategies to accommodate different learning styles. For the
community, demographic changes can also have both positive and
negative effects. On the positive side, a more diverse population
can lead to greater cultural exchange and understanding. On the
negative side, demographic changes can sometimes lead to tension
or conflict as different groups struggle to coexist peacefully.
6. School Accountability
It is the process by which students, teachers, and administrators give an account
of their progress. Accountability is a means by which policy makers at the state and
district levels—and parents and taxpayers—monitor the performance of students and
schools.
A. Standardized Testing
Standardized testing is a form of assessment that is used to measure a student's
performance against a predetermined set of standards or benchmarks. These tests are
usually administered to large groups of students in a consistent and uniform manner, so
that the results can be compared across different schools, districts, or even countries.
Standardized tests are used for a variety of purposes, including evaluating
student achievement, assessing teacher effectiveness, and determining school
accountability. They are often used to making important decisions about students, such
as whether they are eligible for advanced placement courses or whether they can
graduate from high school. While standardized tests can provide valuable information
about student performance, they have also been the subject of criticism and controversy.
Some people argue that these tests place too much emphasis on rote memorization and
do not accurately measure critical thinking skills or creativity. Others argue that
standardized tests create unnecessary stress and anxiety for students, and that they can
perpetuate educational inequalities by favoring students from higher socioeconomic
backgrounds.
C. Performance Reviews
Political Resources: Political resources refer to the laws, policies, and regulations that
govern education. These resources can significantly impact the functioning of schools by
influencing their curriculum, funding, and staffing. Changes in education laws, for
example, can result in changes to the school’s curriculum, which can affect the quality of
education it provides to students. Similarly, changes in funding policies can affect the
school’s budget, and staffing policies can affect the quality of teachers and staff available
to the school.
Economic Resources: Economic resources refer to the financial resources that are
available to the school. These resources can include government funding, private
donations, and grants. The availability of these resources can significantly impact the
school’s ability to provide quality education and support its students. Adequate funding
can help schools provide quality education, hire qualified teachers, and invest in
technology and other resources to enhance the teaching and learning processes.
Legal Resources: Legal resources refer to the laws and regulations that govern the
school’s operations. These resources can include labor laws, safety regulations, and
other legal requirements. Compliance with these regulations can affect the school’s
functioning and reputation. By complying with legal requirements, schools can build trust
with their students and families, which can help to enhance their reputation and support.
Social Resources: Social resources refer to the relationships and networks that the
school has with the community. These resources can include partnerships with
community organizations, parent groups, and other stakeholders. The school’s ability to
build positive relationships with these groups can affect its reputation and support from
the community. By building strong relationships with community organizations and
stakeholders, schools can create a supportive environment for their students and
enhance their reputation
Availability of Resources
The role of resources is to provide a source of learning experience for our learners,
assisting the process of interaction between students and teachers during the
teaching/learning process. At the same time, they help students to learn and increase
their experience, meeting different learning needs.
These include preparation of course materials, communicating in the language of the
discipline, facilitation of learning activities with relevant materials, engaging in elaborate
conversation with learners, giving exercises that involve critical thinking to learners, and
so on.
Dependence
What is dependence? There could be a lot of different meanings a word could mean. So,
for you to widen your knowledge of what dependence is, let us dive into our topic.
Dependence refers to the state of relying on someone or something for support, aid, or
the fulfillment of one's needs or desires. It can refer to both positive and negative forms
of reliance and can be applied to various aspects of life such as relationships,
substances, and habits.
There are different types of dependence that can be observed in various fields.
Here are some examples of types of dependence:
Dependence can also arise in peer relationships among students. Students may
become dependent on their peers for social validation, acceptance, and support, which
can contribute to a positive sense of belonging and community in the classroom.
However, dependence on peers can also lead to social exclusion, bullying, and other
negative behaviors.
Resource Environments
Resource environments refer to the factors and resources that are available to an
organization or institution, such as a school, that can impact its performance and
outcomes. The resource environment is important for effective organizational leadership
as it shapes the organization’s ability to achieve its goals and objectives. A positive
resource environment with sufficient resources and support can enable the organization
to provide high-quality education and support to its students, while a negative resource
environment with limited resources and support can impede its ability to provide
adequate education and support. Understanding and managing the resource
environment is therefore crucial for effective organizational leadership, and can help
ensure that the organization has the resources and support necessary to achieve its
goals and objectives.
Adapting Methods
Adapting to external environments refers to the ability of an individual or
organization to adjust and respond to changes in the surrounding environment. In
the context of schools, adapting to external environments refers to the ability of
schools to adjust and respond to changes in the broader educational landscape.
Schools use various methods and strategies to adapt to changes in the external
environment, including:
Overall, schools can use a range of methods and strategies to adapt to changes in
the external environment, and it is important for them to stay flexible and responsive to
the needs of their students, communities, and the wider environment Importance of
Adapting to External Environments
Domain 1. Social Regard for Learning (SRFL) The SRFL domain focuses on the idea
that teachers serve as positive and powerful role models of value in the pursuit of
different efforts to learn. The teacher's actions, statements, and different types of social
interactions with students exemplify this ideal.
Domain 3. Diversity of Learners (DOL) The DOL domain emphasizes the idea that
teachers can facilitate the learning process even with diverse learners, by recognizing
and respecting individual differences and by using knowledge about their differences to
design diverse sets of learning activities to ensure that all learners can attain the desired
learning goals. In this domain the teachers are expected to;
•Is familiar with the learner's background knowledge and experiences.
•Demonstrates concern for holistic development of learners.
✓Sets clear, challenging and achievable expectations on the holistic development of all
learners, identifies learning gaps and takes action to enable learners to catch up,
employs integrative and interactive strategies for meaningful and holistic development of
learners, is sensitive to unusual behavior of learners and takes appropriate action, and
provides opportunities to enhance learners' growth in all aspects.
Domain 4. Curriculum (Curr.) The curriculum domain refers to all elements of the
process that work in convergence to help students understand the curricular goals and
objectives, and to attain high standards of learning defined in the curriculum. These
elements include the teacher's knowledge of subject matter and the learning process,
teaching-learning approaches and activities, instructional materials and learning
resources. In this domain the teachers are expected to;
•The teacher demonstrates mastery of the subject.
✓Delivers accurate and updated content knowledge using appropriate methodologies,
approaches and strategies. Integrates language, literacy and quantitative skill
development and values in his/her subject area. Explains learning goals, instructional
procedures and content clearly and accurately to learners, links the current content with
past and future lessons, aligns lesson objectives with the teaching methods, and
learning activities and instructional materials or resources appropriate to learners.
Creates situations that encourage learners to use high order thinking skills, engages and
sustains learners' interest in the subject by making content meaningful and relevant to
them, integrates relevant scholarly works and ideas to enrich the less as needed, and
integrates content of subject area with other disciplines.
•The teacher communicates clear learning goals for the lessons that are appropriate for
learning.
✓Sets appropriate learning goals, makes the learners understand the learning goals,
and links the goals set with the expectations for every learner.
•The teacher makes good use of allotted instructional time.
✓Establishes routines and procedures to maximize instructional time, and plans lessons
to fit within available instructional time.
•The teacher selects teaching methods, learning activities and instructional materials or
resources appropriate to learners and aligned to objectives of the lesson.
✓Translates learning competencies to instructional objectives. Selects, prepares and
utilizes instructional materials appropriate to the learners and to the learning objectives,
and provides activities and uses materials which fit the learners' learning styles, goals
and culture. Uses a variety of teaching approaches and techniques appropriate to the
subject matter and the learners, utilizes information derived from assessment to improve
teaching and learning, an
✓Translates learning competencies to instructional objectives. Selects, prepares and
utilizes instructional materials appropriate to the learners and to the learning objectives,
and provides activities and uses materials which fit the learners' learning styles, goals
and culture. Uses a variety of teaching approaches and techniques appropriate to the
subject matter and the learners, utilizes information derived from assessment to improve
teaching and learning, and provides activities and uses materials which involve students
meaningful learning.
Domain 5. Planning, Assessing & Reporting (PAR) This domain refers to the alignment
of assessment and planning activities. In particular, the PAR focuses on the (1) use of
assessment data to plan and revise teaching-learning plans; (2) integration of
assessment procedures in the plan and implementation of teaching-learning activities,
and (3) reporting of the learners' actual achievement and behavior. In this domain the
teachers are expected to;
•The teacher communicates promptly and clearly the learners' progress to parents,
superiors and to learners themselves.
•The teacher develops and uses a variety of appropriate assessment strategies to
monitor and evaluate learning.
Domain 6. Community Linkages (CL) The LC domain refers to the idea that classroom
activities are meaningfully linked to the experiences and aspirations of the learners in
their homes and communities. Thus, this domain focuses on teachers' efforts directed at
strengthening the links between schools and communities to help in the attainment of
the curricular goals. In this domain the teachers are expected to;
•The teacher establishes learning environments that respond to the aspirations of the
community.
Domain 7. Personal Growth & Professional Development (PGPD) The PGPD domain
emphasizes the ideal that teachers value having a high personal regard for the teaching
profession, concern for professional development, and continuous improvement as
teachers. In this domain the teachers are expected to;
•Takes pride in the nobility of teaching as a profession
•Builds professional links with colleagues to enrich teaching practice •Reflects on the
extent of the attainment of learning goals
Internationalization
Internationalization in education refers to the process of integrating
international and intercultural dimensions into the teaching and learning process, as
well as into other aspects of the institution such as research, curricula and campus life.
It is the preparation of people to function in an increasingly international and culturally
relevant and diverse environment (Mamrick, 1999).
Let's just say for example, long ago students had to travel abroad so they could
get this quality education from foreign school and teacher, but that opportunity was only
given for those students who could afford studying abroad. On the other hand, most
people stay at home studying from old books, learning from elders, and some didn't
bother to learn such things since they would rather work for their own business for living
and never had a chance to interact with people of different backgrounds. As you can
see, there is a huge gap between these people however as time passes by we have
found ways to fix this kind of situation and that's how internationalization takes place.
To further understand this topic, let's set another example in a different timeline.
We can see that there are some students who have an opportunity to study abroad to
enhance themselves in their desired courses and could eventually learn different
languages as well as different cultures. Since there are a lot of students who are in this
kind of situation, universities have to work out some way such as sending and receiving
international students.
Nonetheless, there are such issues like General Student Support that talks
about the academic difficulties, personal or social concerns, financial or career
questions, or virtually any other issue that a student may be facing. Language of
Instruction which talks about having difficulty understanding such languages. Lastly the
Ability to Transfer Academic Credits back home. That is one of the main reasons
why universities have to build concrete strategies in order to ensure that all students,
despite the difficulties, are able to study effectively. There are also some students
whose studying abroad wasn't an option. In this manner, universities also come to find
out that they must also work on another plan to give these students the same quality of
education as those students studying abroad. They work together to design an
internationally focused curriculum to create opportunities for local students to interact
with international students and faculties. This may also include the innovative ways of
bringing students together through digital technology in sharing thoughts and ideas.
We can identify that these two kinds of people are different examples of
Internationalization. In other words, internationalization in education is the process of
adapting educational systems, institutions, and curricula to meet the needs of an
increasingly globalized world.
Educational internationalization
Globalization
Globalization in Education
Technological Challenges
● A budget limitation is the greatest factor limiting the efforts of teachers
and administrators to provide education technology to students,
moreover, strained budgets won't be able to fund training sessions for
teachers.
● Many teachers have also demonstrated resistance to change and
unwillingness to adopt education technology because teachers view
learning a new teaching tool as a risky approach for which they’re not
adequately trained.
Adapting to Globalization
Benefits of Globalization
● The use of information technology in the language classroom boosts autonomous
learning, maximizes targeted outcomes, motivates learners and helps them
improve their performance in the EFL classroom.
● It generates greater awareness of other cultures
● The spread of technology and innovation
● Higher standards of living across the globe
● Generates employment
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Andrew Johns “ Substance Dependence”. Retrieved from:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-20859-3_2