My greatest areas of strength deal with ethical issues, legal issues, using data to inform instruction and professional development, developing budgets and curriculum development. My present position is Curriculum Supervisor. As such I have written many grants and have managed them from implementation to budget management to professional development. I have been able to develop a program and using sound budgetary practices and assessment data to determine changes to enhance the program over time. I have also worked collaboratively with teachers to develop the Elementary Language Arts curriculum and have worked to make it user friendly for all teachers, but especially for new teachers. I have also found through years of providing staff development for teachers that I have an affinity for legal and ethical issues related to education.
My weakest areas seem to be communication, district operations, financial auditing, adult education, and keeping up with everchanging technology. I tend to undercommunicate with my fellow workers because I either "keep it all in my head" or believe that the answer is straight forward that it should be evident to all. I am getting better at this, but still have a long way to go. I know some things about district operations (ie: transportation, grounds upkeep) but not nearly enough. Financial auditing, bond, M & O are also things that I am learning, but am still sorely lacking in. Adult education is something I've embraced this year as several of the grants I manage have adult education components and have learned to rely on others to help me develop effective programs rather than something that is good enough to get by. And last but not least, technology. I am fairly adept at technology now, but I tend to ignore upgrades and new technology.
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The strengths that I marked dealt with ethics, being an advocate for all children and relationships with different sets of people. I have no problem saying that ethics very important to me, as it should be to everyone. I think that relationship building is the most important skill a manager of people can achieve, whether it is with adults or students. I feel that this is my best trait as an administrator.
My weaknesses are anything that deals with district level decisions. I simply do not have much experience in this area. Also, I have not dealt with board member s either and that probably will only truly happen after I am an administrator on the district level. That is exactly why I am in this program and cannot wait to absorb the knowledge from everyone in the class.
I like that you already have experience in dealing with budgets and curriculum. As an assistant principal, these are two areas that I need more help in. I spend most of my day dealing with discipline and day to day operations of the school. I can relate to your statement about technology. I too feel adequate with my technology skills but also somethimes ignore upgrades.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised that you listed upgrading and keeping up to date with new technology as a weakness. I assumed that this was a strength for you. I am also surprised that communication with others is a weakness for you. I definitely agree that collaborating with teachers and developing curriculum for the district is a strength for you.
ReplyDeleteYour experience with district-wide curriculum makes curriculum planning a great strength for you, where it is one of my weaknesses because I only deal with curriculum on a campus level. In my case I feel that I am stronger on the communication side.
ReplyDeleteYou get to experience some things at the district level that I don't get to do. You talked about not communicating. I think that is probably more tied in with working in central administration. Maybe I am wrong. I think you sell yourself short on this.
ReplyDeleteI am really beginning to think that working in central admin would be a huge benefit. I agree that learning effective communication is vital to a leadership role.
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