Farewell and Good Luck

A special thanks to all of my colleagues!  I have learned so much and each one of you have contributed to the knowledge I have gained throughout this course.   It's funny how fast 8 weeks can go by, but we've learned so much!  Good luck to everyone in their next phase and please feel free to reach out to me at anytime if you ever need someone to bounce ideas off of or to help work out an issue.

Adjourning

 

The hardest group to leave was a group that I worked with on implementing a particular curriculum.  It felt as though everyone is on the same page and everyone wanted to see the project through.  I would say the Early Childhood supervisor group are high-performing.  They work well together to ensure staff have what they need and best practices are implemented at all times.  The group with the group with the clearest established norms would have to be my high school track team.  You always knew what the expectations were and what you can expect from teammates, as well as, coaches.  This group was the hardest for me to leave because of the consistency.  Typically at the end of the group, personal information is exchanged and sometimes encouragement is given for the next step in your journey.  I imagine the same will happen with the colleagues I have come to know in this master’s degree program.  Adjourning is essential because it gives you an opportunity to create avenues to keep I touch with one another.

Conflict Resolution

This past week a conflict aroused when my supervisor wanted to add additional training to an already packed day of training.  She wanted to make sure that if we were going to close for in-service that we make good use of the time.  I wanted to make sure that we didn’t rush through trainings for the sake of getting several topics done in the course of one day; I was thinking quality over quantity.  One strategy that I have learned this week that might help resolve this conflict productively is to come to a compromise.  Maybe sitting down and going over what topics we would like for teachers to learn from us and topics we feel teachers can get from outside training could help resolve the conflict in a positive manner.  The second strategy is to create a win-win situation by adding a second training offered after hours.