PLAN FOR PRIMARY DEPARTMENT

SEKOLAH GLOBAL INDO-ASIASY 2015-2016

Edina Araneta-SarenasMay 03, 2015

Main Goals

Team Work Transparency Building Opportunities

TEAM WORK

TRANSPARENCY

BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES

Welcome

• The relevance of Team Work1

• How to keep up with Transparency2

• Opening the doors for opportunities3

My Plan

Learning Objectives

• Making Informed Decisions

• Planning to make things better

• Sustenance and Service

THE RELEVANCE OF TEAMWORK

Why is teamwork important in the classroom? (1)

Teamwork encourages collaborative communication.

For students to achieve a comprehensive, well-rounded education, integrated teamwork on several fronts is vital. Teamwork is necessary between students, between students and teachers, and among parents and educators. The more teamwork fundamentals exhibited, the more opportunity exists for students to learn the vital skills of compromise and collaboration.

Typically, each adult in the classroom is tasked with carrying out specific duties and responsibilities in a collaborative manner.

In many academic settings, teachers in different departments team up to ensure a continuity of instruction for students. A fifth grade science teacher focused on scientific measurements and calculations might collaborate with a fifth grade math teacher who teaches volume and measurements. As a team, the teachers create a crossover educational experience in which students of both educators have the opportunity to see how statistical information can be used in the different disciplines.

Why is teamwork important in the classroom? (2)

Team or group work in a classroom teaches students the fundamental skills associated with working as a collective unit toward a common goal. This type of teamwork introduces a variety of skills that will be valuable for students later in the workforce, such as communication, compromise and collective effort. In any type of group work, students must agree about who will handle various components of a project and work in tandem using one another’s strengths to accomplish assigned tasks. This teaches time management, resource allocation and communication skills.

Relevance of Teamwork

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PYP Coordinator + Lead Teachers Guidance Counselor

Grade Level Homeroom Teachers ESL Teacher

Single Subject Teachers Parent Organization

Librarian, IT Support, Teacher Assistants Finance and Marketing Team

Secretary, Nurse, Security Community Resources

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Teamwork Implications

• The Primary Principal serves as the educational leader, responsible for managing the policies, regulations, and procedures to ensure that all students are supervised in a safe and pleasant learning environment that meets the approved curricula and mission of the school.

• Achieving academic excellence requires that the Primary Principal to work collaboratively, to direct and nurture all members of the school staff hired by the Management and to communicate effectively with parents.

• Inherent in the position are the responsibilities to provide instructional leadership for the teachers and staff including scheduling, curriculum planning and development, review and implementation, extracurricular activities, professional development, personnel management, emergency procedures, and facility operations.

Teamwork Implications

Benefits of Teamwork• Define our challenges easily– Technological as well as personal

• Set realistic expectation–Mastery is not achieved overnight

• Keep an eye on the goals–Mentorship programs

HOW TO KEEP UP WITH TRANSPARENCY

What is transparency?Wikipedia – one of the world’s great examples of transparent collective behaviour – states that “transparency”, as it pertains to behaviour implies openness, communication, and accountability. It is a metaphorical extension of the meaning a “transparent” object is one that can be seen through. Transparent procedures include open meetings, financial disclosure statements, freedom of information legislation, budgetary review, audits, etc.

What is transparency?• With regard to research: Scholarly research in any academic discipline

may also be labelled as (partly) transparent (or open research) if some or all relevant aspects of the research are open in the sense of open source, open access and open data, thereby facilitating social recognition and accountability of the scholars who did the research and replication by others interested in the matters addressed by it.

• With regard to management there emerges the concept of radical transparency: a management method where nearly all decision making is carried out publicly. All draft documents, all arguments for and against a proposal, the decisions about the decision making process itself, and all final decisions, are made publicly and remain publicly archived.

Three concepts seem to dominate the definitions: openness, ongoing communication, and public accountability.

• So what does openness imply? It seems to evoke attitudes as well as behaviours – without obstruction or concealment, accessible, not secret. Openness also seems to evoke willingness or readiness to receive – comment, support, aid, and criticism, anything that can help build or align for better results.

• Ongoing communication implies a relationship or set of relationships. Good relationships are built on trust, mutual benefit, and reciprocity. As stated in another post: Communication is a process whereby meaning is defined and shared between living organisms. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender’s intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication process is complete once the receiver has understood the sender.

• Public Accountability: accountable to the public? What do we mean by accounting to the public? Accountability is the acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility for actions, products, decisions, and policies including the administration, governance, and implementation within the scope of the role or employment position and encompassing the obligation to report, explain and be answerable for resulting consequences.

Note to ALL• Transparency also means that care will be taken to

share the methods of producing guidelines as well as the administration and processes used in supporting the production. The general open behaviour will sometimes bring criticism of specific issues. But in the long-term, benefits will likely be derived as criticism is an input in continual improvement, creation of efficiencies and innovations in the production of clinical practice guidelines.

Implications to Leadership Team• The Primary Principal will provide leadership and administration which

will motivate instructional and support personnel to strive for superior performance so as to provide the best possible opportunities for student growth and development, both educationally and personally.

• The Primary Principal reports directly to the Head of School and are responsible to implement of both international and national curriculums and instruction initiatives and recommends options to improve the instructional of school and the academic performance of students. The Primary Principal supervises closely to the Homeroom teachers and Specialists to ensure that the SGIA curriculum and interactions meet the needs of all students in line with the mission, vision and values of the school.

Implications to Principal’s Job Description Establish and promote high standards and expectations for all students and staff for

academic performance and responsibility for behavior. Manage, evaluate and supervise effective and clear procedures for the operation and

functioning of the school consistent with the philosophy, mission, values and goals of the school including instructional programs, extracurricular activities, discipline systems to ensure a safe and orderly climate, building maintenance, program evaluation, personnel management, office operations, and emergency procedures.

Develop and administer the general school routine, and coordinate all activities within the school.

Maintain an educational philosophy and school climate which encourages a cooperative and participating attitude on the part of all teachers and students.

Ensure a safe, pleasant and effective educational atmosphere, provides discipline as necessary and enforces school policy.

Maintaining a standard of student behavior designed to command respect and minimize school and classroom interruptions.

OPENING DOORS FOR BETTER OPPORTUNITIES

Why build opportunities for teachers?

• Once hired, many teachers are left to sink or swim. Helping teachers hone their craft has seldom made it onto the agenda for the past years. But perhaps we’re finally ready to focus attention on the far bigger and more important question of how to attract and retain the top teachers we want.

Building Opportunities• Affect or recommend changes which will lead to improved administration, supervision and

opportunity for student development. • Performing all other acts reasonable and necessary to accomplish his/her primary function as

requested by the Board of Management. • Interacts with students in a constructive manner to encourage each individual to perform at

their highest level. • Establish the annual master schedule for instructional programs, ensuring sequential learning

experiences for students consistent with the school’s philosophy, vision and mission statement and also instructional goals.

• Supervise in a fair and consistent manner effective discipline and attendance systems with high standards, consistent with the philosophy, values, and mission of the school.

• Ensure a safe, orderly environment that encourages students to take responsibility for behavior and creates high morale among staff and students.

• File all required reports regarding violence, vandalism, attendance and discipline matters. • Establish procedures that create and maintain attractive, organized, functional, healthy, clean, • and safe facilities, with proper attention to the visual, acoustic and temperature. • Assume responsibility for the health, safety, and welfare of students, employees and visitors. • Develop clearly understood procedures and provide regular drills for emergencies and

disasters.

Building Opportunities• Establish duty roster and procedures for the supervision of students in non-classroom areas (including before

and after school). • Oversee student after school activities, and lunch time activities. • Establish procedures for safe storing and integrity of all public and confidential school • records. Ensure that student records are complete and current. • Protect confidentiality of records and information gained as part of exercising professional duties and use

discretion in sharing such information within legal confines. • Ensure teachers are aware of exactly how to keep student records, and that there are hard and soft copies

filed in designated locations. • Provide and supervise a safe recreation and play period for the students. • Manages all staff, assigns teachers to classrooms and students to classes. • Enforce school rules and intervene proactively. • Meet with parents about discipline issues and document all incidents and meetings. • Document all misdemeanors, what has been done to remediate, all communication with parents. • Identify all students in all sections in division who are not performing to standard and fill in at-risk report. • Ensure that every teacher in division is providing the highest standard of pastoral care according to the

guidelines of the school. • Enforce the student uniform dress code, and inform parents if the student is repeatedly not following the

guidelines. • Ensure the government and school's policies on student records are followed by all teachers in the timeframe

given. • Organise and delegate responsibilities for producing student events of quality and quantity • Oversee student after school activities, and lunch time activities.

Building Opportunities• Supervise the instructional programs of the school, evaluating lesson plans and observing classes

(teaching, as duties allow) on a regular basis to encourage the use of a variety of instructional strategies and materials consistent with research on learning and child growth and development.

• Establish procedures for evaluation and selection of instructional materials and equipment, approving all recommendations.

• Ensure all teachers are following the school developed curriculum from IB and embedded of National curriculum for each grade level.

• Ensure all teachers follow the school's assessment policy, including how and when they asses, and the management of student portfolios.

• Ensure all teachers complete an inventory (hard and soft copies) and that new resource are suggested and ordered according to the budget.

• Continually evaluate existing programs and practices, curriculum content, and pilot or experimental programs.

• Encourage and initiate continued improvement in curriculum and teaching methods, subject area specialists, and faculty.

• Oversee the development of Curriculum Committee and keep the Board apprised. • Establish guidelines and expectations for curriculum delivery and provide Professional • Development on curriculum delivery. • Coordinate with other principals, and oversee communication and adherence to regulations and

guidelines. • Educate and oversee the instruction in division to ensure school's standards are being implemented

Building Opportunities• Responsible in the selection of new teaching and classified personnel, including

interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

• Orient new personnel or teacher assigned to the school. • Observe, counsel, and motivate professional staff toward performances to attain

the educational goals of the foundation. • Establish a professional rapport with students and with staff that has their respect. • Display the highest ethical and professional behavior and standards when working

with students, parents and school personnel. • Serve as a role model for students, dressing professionally, demonstrating the

importance and relevance of learning, accepting responsibility, and demonstrating pride in the education profession.

• Encourage all teachers to do the same. • Evaluate performance and effectiveness of programs and teachers. Coordinates in-

service training for teacher. • Use the school approved supervision system to supervise and develop teachers'

skills and provide regular feedback to improve their teaching skills

Resources

• http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/09/building-better-teachers/375066/

• Making PYP Happen: A Curricular Framework• MTBA Evaluation Visit Report • http://www.knowledgemobilization.net/archives/603• ork.chron.com/rad-results.html?

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