Consider your own context within your school and with your mentee. How can understanding of controlled disruption and coherence making impact your leadership of peers at this time, and at this level?
Immediately upon reading this weeks essential question I thought of our political climate in Alaska. How can teachers expect to teach to their fullest potential when they are worried if they have a job the next year. While this is a distraction and disruption for students education it is something that is controlled in that the teachers still need to complete the school year regardless if they fear they may not have a job next year. With this fear teacher may deal with it in many different ways.
Everyone is different and everyone will deal with disruptions in different ways (Fullan pg 119). With this in mind it is important to understand how everyones unique beliefs play into collaboration. According to Aguilar (2016) most conflicts among teachers happen when they approach a problem from different beliefs styles but don't articulate them in an understandable manor.
This article looked at the 6 belief systems that influence education's decision-making:
1. Religious Orthodoxy: Teach habits and values that lead to that religions realization of how life ought to be lived according to faith. These educators strive to help learn norms and conduct their lives following religious norms.
2. Cognitive process: Believe central roll of school is to help students learn, think, reason and problem solve. Use strategies that involve problem solving and inquiry.
3. Self-Actualization: Purpose of teaching is to bring out the unique qualities, potentials, and creativities in each child. A teacher with these beliefs value student choice and self-directed learning.
4.. Technologist: Place strong emphasis on accountability, test scores, learning specific sub-skills, and measurable learning. They might be driven by data. This ideology has beed used by many policy making bodies as it rallies to assessments, testing, and teacher performance.
5. Academic Rationalism: Believes knowledgeable adults know what is best for students. They often deliver teacher-centered lessons.
6. Social Reconstructionism: Believe that education is to help students to become good citizens to help take care of the world. They believe education is an instrument of change and schools bring about a better future and world.
When we work with others, especially with teachers we need to remember that everyone has different beliefs but we are all working towards the same goal; to teach children.
Aguilar, E. (2016, March 22). Teacher Collaboration: When Belief Systems Collide. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
Fullan, M. (2001). Leading in a Culture of Change. San Francisco, CA: Josey-Bass.
Everyone is different and everyone will deal with disruptions in different ways (Fullan pg 119). With this in mind it is important to understand how everyones unique beliefs play into collaboration. According to Aguilar (2016) most conflicts among teachers happen when they approach a problem from different beliefs styles but don't articulate them in an understandable manor.
This article looked at the 6 belief systems that influence education's decision-making:
1. Religious Orthodoxy: Teach habits and values that lead to that religions realization of how life ought to be lived according to faith. These educators strive to help learn norms and conduct their lives following religious norms.
2. Cognitive process: Believe central roll of school is to help students learn, think, reason and problem solve. Use strategies that involve problem solving and inquiry.
3. Self-Actualization: Purpose of teaching is to bring out the unique qualities, potentials, and creativities in each child. A teacher with these beliefs value student choice and self-directed learning.
4.. Technologist: Place strong emphasis on accountability, test scores, learning specific sub-skills, and measurable learning. They might be driven by data. This ideology has beed used by many policy making bodies as it rallies to assessments, testing, and teacher performance.
5. Academic Rationalism: Believes knowledgeable adults know what is best for students. They often deliver teacher-centered lessons.
6. Social Reconstructionism: Believe that education is to help students to become good citizens to help take care of the world. They believe education is an instrument of change and schools bring about a better future and world.
When we work with others, especially with teachers we need to remember that everyone has different beliefs but we are all working towards the same goal; to teach children.
Aguilar, E. (2016, March 22). Teacher Collaboration: When Belief Systems Collide. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
Fullan, M. (2001). Leading in a Culture of Change. San Francisco, CA: Josey-Bass.
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