5311 Week 5 Discussion Board
In Case Study #2 (Martin, 2019), I determined that the poor implementation of the new program was the root cause of the bad morale on campus. I don’t think that his decision to put it in was off base or incorrect given the circumstances. Where he fell down was in several areas of implementation as highlighted in competencies 7–12 (Martin, et. al., 2022). First of all, he did not include any of the campus staff in the planning and rollout. There is a lot of experience there and would have helped tremendously. Second, he did a “one and done” training session and expected everything to change immediately. This was made worse by the poor evaluations. Instead of giving small, short targets to move things forward, he only pointed out what was wrong. For my field experience, one area that is an option for me to add in is creating a PL experience and plan for the staff. Our campus has started into a long term implementation of Understanding By Design (UDL). This is something that I am very familiar with and do in my class regularly. In my class, I routinely have a wide range of learner abilities and levels. For example, in my current 10th graders, they range in math ability from those struggling to stay afloat in geometry to students excelling in pre-calculus. Last year, I had one who was in calculus already in the 10th grade group. UBD helps me in providing rigorous opportunities for all of my learners to reach the class goals and demonstrate their learning growth. Our overall campus has this kind of dynamic throughout it. UBD can give our teachers a method to maintain high standards while providing support for students to help them achieve those standards. We were about to roll it out campus wide, but it had been slowed down tremendously due to complications from COVID and the past two years of difficulties. For me, my biggest area of growth in this program is working on bringing my experiences to the campus without it being a comparison type situation or rushed because it was something I was used to doing. This will be a win-win for me and the campus along with something that I and others on the campus are passionate about. References: Martin, G. (2019, October), Case Study #2. [PDF]. https://luonline.blackboard.com/ultra/courses/_183930_1/cl/outline Martin, G. E., Danzig, A. B., Flanary, R. A., & Orr, M. T. (2022). School leader internship: Developing, monitoring, and evaluating your leadership experience (5th ed.). Routledge.
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