Teacher Leadership Pt.1: M1_FA 6

 As per module, 

"Focus Area 6: Types of Leaders

 

Read: 

Changing Minds

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/styles/leadership_styles.htm

 

Although we might gravitate to one more than the other leadership style, we can see ourselves reflected in more than just one. Peruse the site below and determine what your leadership style is/are.

"What type of leader are you? Discuss your leadership styles and provide examples to support them. How can you apply your leadership abilities?

Review and comment on two other postings by your colleagues."

Guess this one is just a simple response-?

As per discussion, 

Leadership profile, I think for me this is a super open ended couple questions that I have spent about 5 focus areas demonstrating indirectly, so to keep it fresh-I'm going to roll it out like this, feel free to follow suit if you want to "spice things up"

(discharged from position)1-10 (irresistible)

Likeability, (8/9)

I am told that I'm fun (sometimes too fun), and that I need to be able to let myself out doors more, do more social activities with staff, try to keep it light, not so focused on productivity.

I tend to be very careful at work with my relationships, when I first started teaching I was a little too open with my suggestions and unfiltered with various things like music over speaker choices and things like that. I decided some of the constructive remarks given by other department members (as a colleague) was good advice that maybe in ON would have maybe been more serious based on how set in their ways some people are-versus overseas, its a little more "open to interpretation". Outside of work though, a lot of folk like hanging out-I don't do it much anymore with my son older especially-he likes when I'm home.

Professionalism, (7/0)

Some days I tend to let me dress slip-maybe no tie, maybe "casual dress pants"; when I was teaching PE it was a lot of Polo and shorts/sweatpants. Nothing that ever got me head shakes, but ya sometimes the administration would be asking, "are you taking the class outside for physical activity today?"

I'd also use the sweaty humid weather of Guangzhou be a bit of an "excuse" for shorts and polos. I'm not exactly sure how strict the dress is for teachers in ON right now, but I honestly believe 95% of the time teachers were dress pants and button up shirt, unless they were electives/PE/coaches.

Productivity, (8/9)

Sometimes I'm too focused on a goal but then don't slow down the process enough for growth to happen, just try to move on to the next step of change/implementation. Been told to slow down in regards to instruction (as a teacher and leader). It has also been said that I need to let go of people who are leaning on me too much for support, they "draw me in" I'm told and end up completing the work for them as I hope to see it-rather then sending them back to fix it themselves. This is partially when I have a unit of JUST templates. Hahaha-but I'm actually crying at how much time I have lost making templates that I only end up changing a year or even a semester later. Ugh.

Team Cooperation, (6/7)

I tend to provide an idea, and if the group decides on something I'm not super interested in or thrilled about, my engagement is clearly less, stepping back and delegating to someone else to take lead on. Its not out of spite, I just-ugh I can see when things are going to fail sometimes, and YES sometimes I am surprised by the team, but I'm more of a realist than idealist in terms of leadership-I'm not getting younger-there are things that need to get done. I don't physically show disprove, but my attendance to certain meetings gets pushed back or whatever it may be-the last one was a department talent show (basically), I had been participatory and engaged up to the point where my suggestions that were turned down at a reasonable time for implementation of practice (early on development), were brought up as "better looking" (literally) two-three days before the performance. I was flattered and at the same time-annoyed, we spent over or around 20 hours of extra curricular time practising and developing this routine, I'm not an artsy show/stage/theatre person either-I was already unimpressed with the idea-but I try to be a team player.

In the end we were successful. It was done. I won't be doing that again.

Thus in a leader I think the attributes that are important to me are the previously mentioned. Those numbers were guesses based on my interactions and asking a couple coworkers. No I'm not their leader at this time hahaha "