This site is a class blog space for new Career and Technical Specializations and Heathcare Science teachers enrolled in the New Teacher Institute (NTI) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Administrative guidance will typically have a rigid, firm stance, leading by example. In the Career and Technical Education fields there is a constant moving target in the classes, labs, CTSOs, and industries. If things stayed the same in all of the fields of industry and areas of society, we could easily stay firm and rigid, but in order to grow and progress we must change. I believe I would have to agree with Prossers' Theorm 15. The fluidity and elasticity of the administration is key. If their had not been a small deal of "elasticity" in the requirements from me at the administrative level in these first two years as an educator I would not have been able to maintain. I am thankful for the WONDERFUL administration that I have. When faced with any change, question, or option in reference to my program, they have nothing but good input and an open mind.
You are blessed Trenton. I think Prosser was dead on when he said CTE must be flexible. Although I do have flexibility in some areas, I would love to have it in order to plan my instruction. We are not all created the same. What makes sense to one may not make sense to another. I am the other that feels very confined by the lesson plan format required at my school.
ReplyDeleteI agree that is makes a world of difference when you have administrators who understand what your course is all about, and allow you the freedom to run it the way it should be run. We have to stop and think, they hired us because we are "experts in our field", so it only makes to sense for them to let us do what we know how to do in the classroom.
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