EDTC 6010 question: What setting or settings are you interested in working in when you receive your respective degree in Instructional Technology? Explain how you will fit in this particular setting. What questions (if any) do you have about working in this particular work setting?
The setting that I can see myself in after I receive my degree would have to be an educational one. For the last 19 years I have worked in this setting and enjoy the interaction I have with students and parents. Although I understand that if I would move into an IT position, the type of interaction would be different. However, the ultimate goal of improving learning and performance would still be the same. For me to be in any other setting, such as in business or industry would leave me feeling like a fish out of water. Although a majority of instructional design opportunities are in the business and industry setting, I don't think that would be for me. If I wasn't sure of that before, it certainly was made clearer to me after reading my business classmates blogs and discussion posts.
Since I have experience being on the SIT (School Improvement Team) committee at my school, I was able to make connections between it and the Strategic Leadership Team (SLT) mentioned in Chapter 21. It is just the next circle out in the big picture, which I see with the small circle being the individual child, then the individual classroom, then the individual school and then the school district, and eventually extending out to the state level and then ending at the national level. I can see myself being a teacher representative on the SLT team initiating and implementing the Step-Up-To-Excellence process to create and sustain whole-district improvement. I think I have a good amount of insight from being a classroom teacher in various private, public and government classrooms and would be able to add valuable understanding to the process. I have watched many administrators try to piecemeal change, and have not found it to be very effective.
One question that I have about working in this setting would be about how to get on the SLT team. In chapter 21, it stated that principals and teachers are appointed by their peers. I thought this to be a very interesting way to become a team member. I have noticed all too often that from a very young age on, any group that is appointed or elected by their peers becomes a popularity contest. This will not necessarily put the best applicants on the team. However, when I tried to come up with a better way to select candidates, I was unable to think of one.
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We didn't mean to scare you away from the business world. :-)
Seriously, though. It's nice to hear that after all that you have invested in your career, you still feel so strongly that you've done the right thing with your life.
You are very insightful about how selecting of members on a team can be popularity and not best candidate.
It is great that you have had a variety of experiences in the classroom. That experience would make you a great member of an SLT team.
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