First Week for School Community Relations Class

This class addresses how schools can and do influence their supporting community.  Community is defined as parents, and other family members, businesses, agencies, and organizations.  This week's assignment was to analyze two of my school's involvement programs (one geared toward parent involvement and the other geared toward community involvement).  A SWOT analysis was conducted for both programs.  SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

Last Week for the EDLD 5345 Class

I have a better understanding of the SBEC Competencies and the supporting standards because of this class.  I enjoyed this Human Resource Management course.  I liked learning about human resource management, campus vision, culture, values, ethics, laws, professional learning, staff evaluations, organizational leadership, decision-making and problem solving, budgeting, resource allocation, and financial management. 

4th Week- Human Resource Management

This week's assignment only had four parts:  human resource organization leadership reflection, article critique, summary of interview with Debra Cannon, and teacher evaluations.

The most interesting part of the assignment were the six steps for teacher evaluations:

1.) Begin the evaluation process early in the school year.

     

2.) Utilize classroom walk-throughs often enough to ensure validity to what you see in

      the designated observation and evaluation visit. 

    

3.) If there are any problem areas, schedule a conference with the teacher to discuss the

     issues and put a synopsis of the conference in writing.

    

4.) Ask the teacher what he/she needs in terms of support in order to meet performance

     expectations.

  

5.) If problems continue, establish a reasonable timeline for the teacher to demonstrate

     improvement and conduct a follow-up evaluation.

     

6.) Complete a third and final evaluation visit prior to making a contract status

      recommendation to the superintendent.

     

I like using guidelines (or steps) to accomplish tasks.  I'm definitely not looking forward to step 6 (as an administrator).