The
power dynamic at my school’s site is a lot different from the traditional
school’s power dynamic. I teach at an
Early College and we do things a lot differently because we’re on a college
campus. Our school administrator is primarily
in charge. We do not have an assistant
principal and we only have eight teachers on the staff. The teachers have adapted to governing
themselves. We have one teacher’s
assistant who helps out with any task necessary and two diligently working
counselors who think they are the assistants to the principal and boss the rest
of us around. We love them dearly.
This
information can be used to influence change at my school because it produces
more teacher leaders. Because there is
only a head principal and second in command are the teachers and counselors, it
causes people to use their strengths to help keep all of the pieces of the
puzzle together.
This information
could also influence change by causing more duties to be delegated to keep
students from seeing the leadership gaps in authoritative figures. The teachers must remain supportive and
united with the principal in order for change to be effective and the power dynamic
to be successful.
Hey Maggie!
ReplyDeleteWe have an early college program at our high school as well. They have the same set up as yours, with only one principal and about the same amount of teachers. I see where you are coming from when you say that that everyone needs to be a leader because of the small school set up. I enjoyed reading your post because it really is just like our school!
Hi Maggie,
ReplyDeleteWe have a program in Columbia as well called Middle College, that is located on our Midlands Technical College, they also have the same set up as yours and the teachers that I know work there seem to love the environment, that I guess is "middle" ground between high school and college. I guess this is also like my school in that we have different people doing different jobs in the school. I am in agreement with you, when students see leadership gaps, they like to take advantage! If it has to happen, I always hope that it happens very quietly!
Thanks for sharing