CEDo565 Workshop 1

This week lesson was on leadership and what it means within the school system. I personally found the jigsaw article The Many Faces of Leadership to be very interesting as it explained the two different types of teachers within a school. There are the teachers that continually do "their job" the same way each year and there are the teachers that take the intiative to go beyond just being in the classroom. Teachers continued desire to develop skills, support other teachers, and improve student learning are the traits of a teacher that wants to go beyond the classroom teacher. This is important because the administrators are not the only individuals within a school that continually instructs teachers, teacher need to support eachother and assist each other. Administrators have additional duties and commitments.

We have a saying in our school district "if you have the will but not the skill, what can we do to get you the skill. But if you have the skill but not the will, how can we help you get the will". Getting the will is more difficult because it has to come from within the staff member to pursue achievement.