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1-Initiative.
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2-Flexibility
and
Adaptability.
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3-Productivity
and
Accountability
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are of the :
in
Education
1- Initiative:
What is Initiative?
Initiative is the ability to be resourceful and work without
always
being told what to do. It requires resilience and
determination. People who show initiative demonstrate
they can think for themselves and take
action when
necessary. It means using your head, and having the
drive to
achieve. Initiative is a self-management skill, and
self-management is one of five key life and work skills for
Young Professionals.
When you use your initiative you do things without being
asked, solve
problems that others may not have noticed
needed solving, and go out of your way to continue learning
and growing. You do extra research if
required, ask
questions, and seek help if you need to.
Doing our free online Young Professionals training already
shows initiative as you are taking time to develop
professional traits and skills. Initiative also means doing
things for others. Going
out of your way to help people
shows that you’re willing to go above
and beyond, which
will impress employers.
Why is Initiative important?
Using your initiative makes you a desirable candidate for
jobs and opportunities as you are showing you can think
for yourself, as
well as proving that you will continue to
develop and grow in your
role.
Initiative will allow you to get ahead of the competition and
ensure you’re up to date with what’s going on in your
career sector.
People who show good initiative often win
awards and promotions as they
generate exciting and
beneficial ideas.
2- Flexibility and Adaptability
most important qualities that every teacher must
possess.
These two characteristics also go hand-in-hand with one
another. Flexibility is the idea that your plans can change
very
quickly, sometimes with notice and sometimes
without.
Receiving
criticism (good and bad) from your
advisers is extremely important in
terms of flexibility
because it will force you to change up what you are
used to doing.
Being flexible means incorporating this feedback into
your teaching. Also, on-the-spot changes may also need
to me made based
on certain situations in the classroom,
often without prior
realization.
Adaptability is the ability to adapt to change. In
general,
it is being able to acclimate yourself to changing roles,
job
responsibilities, material, and schedules. If you
cannot accommodate
for these different aspects of
teaching, it will be difficult to give
your students the best
learning experience that they could possibly get,
and of
course that's always the goal!
Application:
As with most "skills", being able to apply them is the
most crucial part of showing an understanding of them.
Flexibility in
the classroom is one of most important
qualities that every teacher
must possess. Receiving
feedback from your peers and administrators
can be
rather intimidating, and then changing your plans in order
to
accommodate their feedback and criticism may seem
like a daunting task -
and it is.
Teachers need to be aware that they will always need to
be
changing up their teaching styles. Lesson plans are
great guides in the
classroom, but of course the class
cannot always go as smoothly as it
is planned.
There will always be interruptions due to rowdy students,
disadvantaged students, misunderstandings when
learning, and (more often
now than ever) technical
difficulties among many other reasons.
When an obstacle arises, you must be able to overcome
it smoothly and
this could require changing your entire
plan for the day on-the-spot.
This can bring up somewhat
of a "sink or swim" situation, and knowing
how to be
flexible in your plans will allow you to swim! As
for
adaptability, teachers need to be able to be comfortable
given a
different job responsibility. It is very possible that
when teaching in
a district, you may be in two different
schools in as many years, based
on what the district
needs.
It is extremely important that a comfort
level is
established for him/herself in order to give the students a
proper learning experience. Also, with the ever-changing
technology
industry, we as teachers must be able to keep
up with and understand the
new innovations which could
be beneficial to students in the
classroom. We must know
how to use them in the best interest of our
students, which
could require changing the way that you teach a
particular
topic, possibly annually!
Analysis:
One of the most important
parts of analysis is being able
to organize information in a way that it
is easier
understood. This is a situation where being flexible could
be very important. Suppose maybe a particular diagram
or visual was
given in class in order to help teach a
certain topic.
It's very
possible that maybe particular students are not
visual learners and
would rather see the information
displayed in a different way. This is
where teachers need
to be flexible in their lessons, by being able to
come up
with some other form to display the information in such a
way
that it is easier understood for the students who
maybe did not grasp
the concept with the first visual.
This may require organizing material
into several distinct
components (i.e. graphs, tables, text, pictures,
etc.).
The ability to be able to adapt to a student's needs is
extremely crucial here.
Evaluation:
An evaluation is the
idea of judging how well someone
performed a task. One of the ways that
students are
judged or graded on their work, is by certain criterion
that must be met by the student. These criterion are
constantly
changing, sometimes provided by the teacher
themselves, the school
district, or even at the state or
federal level.
One example of this
would be the NJCCCS standards,
which are updated and changed as time
goes on, in
order to accommodate for new innovations and
instructional
techniques. Teachers must be aware of this,
as they may be grading
according to an older version of
a rubric, which could be "dating" your
students by possibly
praising them for work that would not be considered
up-
to-date. Standardized testing is another example of this.
Teachers
need to adapt to the ALWAYS-changing criterion
for standardized tests.
Even though, most teachers will
not be graders for the tests, they will
need to instruct their
students on how to study for the test, and the
material that
may be on them. For example, an older SAT preparation
teacher may be giving practice tests to students which
include an
"analogy" section, which is no longer a topic
covered on the test.
For
this reason, they should not cover that topic, and
could spend that time
much more wisely on topics that will
be covered on the test. This
teacher must be more
flexible with their plans, and give the students a
much
more recent study guide in order to be ready for the exam.
3-Productivity
and
Accountability
Analysis:
Productivity is the ability to create a product
using these skills:
Setting and meeting goals,prioritizing needs , managing
time, working ethically, collaborating and cooperating
with colleagues and clients.
Accountability
and productivity are interconnected.
Accountability is taking a role in
the creation of a product
and taking responsibility for the performance
of the
product.
Application:
Here are two lesson ideas that utilize
productivity and accountability:
1.
Research project: Students are to research a topic
collecting at least a
given number of sources. Students
then use those sources to create a
web published
document discussing their research topic that their peers
can leave comments on. Each student then reads and
comments on a given
number of other student's topics.
Then each student complies a
reflective paper using
what they have researched and the input from
their
peers. This project can either be done as an individual
or group
project.
2.
Student accountability project: At the beginning of the
quarter or unit
students will come up with a set number
of personal goals. Each student
will then create a timeline
using google calendar to manage how they
will achieve
their goals. During the unit or quarter students will
periodically meet with their teacher to discuss their
progress towards
meeting their end of unit/quarter goals.
At the end of the unit/quarter
students will write a paper
on how well they worked to reach their
goals, and what
changes they would make in order to reach all their
goals during the next unit/quarter.
Evaluation:
1.Productivity:
This is important since it is the way in which success and
failure are
established in the working world. Being
productive means being able to produce a product of a
certain quality with a given time frame.
2.Accountability:
This is important since it is how we are assessed on
productivity in
the working world. People are held
accountable for the actions they take to complete a
task.