How is it possible to manage all aspects of a preschool setting?
Reading this chapter the same questions come to mind as previous chapters. How do directors balance their roles. The triangle is a great tool to help keep the directors on track and see their strengths and weaknesses, but to have to balance all these things are such a great task. For directors I feel that its really important to involve all staff, working as a team can make a huge effect in any preschool. Directors should lead and mange but also connect with their co - workers and children. Planning and evaluation is a strategy that stuck to me. I always try to plan things and evaluate how I could do something better. This is something that could be done in any preschool. I'm sure that most preschool directors evaluate their staff annually. Do we evaluate ourselves regularly. This way we can see strengths and weaknesses and know where to improve on.
I really enjoyed reading about the "five ingredients." When reading about the five ingredients as it says we see all these things in children but in adults we have lost these abilities over time. I personally will start to work these "ingredients," back into my way of thinking.
Hi Jasmine,
ReplyDeleteLeading, leader, leadership are present in your blog as well as many others this week. How might a leader be defined? Does a leader need to have the five ingredients as well? Does the culture and context of a site define a leader? What if the leader is defined as a person with power and very little listening and response to the community? Should the definition of leader be disrupted? How can this disruption occur?
How might the rethinking of teachers as leaders by both the director and community create a sharing of power and a site that flexible and responsive to children and families?
Jeanne
Hey Jasmine,
ReplyDeleteEvaluating ourselves is something we should all do on a regular basis. Especially working with young children, families, other teachers, directors, and the community, we as teachers need to have a certain presence that is warm and inviting to all people we may encounter in our programs. I have been doing a lot of evaluating of myself recently. There have been many challenges this year in the classroom I work in and I'm constantly thinking if a strategy worked, what could I have done better to help a child solve a problem, what could I do differently in circle to keep the children's attention. Many things like that and more I am thinking about and reflecting on. Being teachers we need to evaluate ourselves and reflect on our experiences everyday we encounter in the classroom.