EDLD+5345+Reflections

This particular class stressed looking at our school campuses and principals, as well as ourselves with an objective eye. The objectives seemed to point to the lessons of our youth of treating people as we would want to be treated. There should be more time spent in instructing teachers on how their actions could be viewed by their coworkers, students, and the public. Our sense of self is often reflected on our jobs and our environments. Add into the mix, a classroom of students and how they perceive their teachers or how they are influenced by their teacher’s attitudes and actions. It is important that we examine our campus culture closely and ponder how other people might perceive our schools in comparison to others.

Ethics not only touch the lives of the teachers in the classrooms, but the principals as well. While principal competencies may focus more on the administrative tasks, it must also align closely with campus cultures. Principals are viewed as the main example of a school’s culture, if he is perceived to not embrace all cultures residing in his care, teachers and students may also reflect the same bias. Our schools must help parents teach our students to be tolerant of those that may be different, whether in dress, attitude, or religion. Our schools are functioning poorly in the subject of culture tolerance and it has now become a problem world-wide.

We were asked in the assignment for this course to evaluate ourselves along the lines of what our personal strengths were in relation to a principal’s competency. In a typical manner, personal reflections can be painfully honest at times, but it is important for administrators to realize that just as it is for their staff, they need to continue to grow professionally as well.

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