Feed back to the student

Elizabeth Hogan wrote on 07/11/2012

I would take your reflection one step further.....when you are a principal and you have faculty members who are satisfied with the status quo and not willing to make changes or continue to improve in the classroom, what would you do to motivate them? Exp. Record #: 10960 Date submitted: 07/10/2012 Elizabeth Hogan approved on 07/11/2012 Cohort: UEN 2011

Student Name: Velasquez, Loren Christopher (392205)

Field-Based Internship Reflection Form For Internship Experience Standard 1: Visionary Leadership; Standard 2: Instructional Leadership; Standard 3: Organizational Leadership; Standard 4: Collaborative Leadership; Standard 5: Ethical Leadership; Standard 6: Political Leadership Standard and Criteria 4.b Promotes/supports structure for family/community involvement Level Elementary Time Spent 10 hour(s) Note

Briefly describe this field-based internship experience, including your specific role (1/2 page). My specific role in this experience was Men's varsity track coach at the local high school as well as 8th grade teacher at the "feeding" middle school. Seeing that we had low numbers for track athletes as I entered the program as head assistant I took matters into my own hands. It was tough not being a teacher in the high school where I was coaching. I did however teach in the middle school that "fed" into the high school. Very basic level of getting more students to participate in sports was to get them thinking about it at the middle school level. I did this by coaching a few sports at the middle school level. I had a really good rapport with the students already, so coaching only added to it. I could see the numbers of track athletes (both on the men's and women's track team) increase after one year of me being at the middle school. A majority of the students I taught in 8th grade went out for track in high school. The next year I did not settle on this "improvement plan", I set out to make it even better. Seeing the power of presence and building relationships with students I made the connection of students with older athletes. We brought the high school athletes to the middle school practices to run workshops on track and field. The buzz in the middle school on days after the high school athletes came to practice was loud and clear. It gave middle school students positive role models to look after as well as gave the older high school athletes a sense of serving the community. This plan continued to grow and strengthen over the years. We moved to working with the elementary students at a local catholic school. The athletes grow during the experience as much as the young students. Reflect on what you have learned from this experience, from mentor discussions, and how you will use this learning in future administrative leadership roles (no more than 1/2 page). Never settle on something that is going good. Always strive to make it better. If I lose sight of improving then I need to get another profession. Improvements can and will happen. It takes a strong leader with the power of recognizing the need for improvement. This process ended up growing stronger than I anticipated. It had a strong ripple effect in the community. For instance the custodian at the middle school even noticed the numbers growing and heard the news of what the track team has been doing in helping the local "younger" athletes. One of the track athletes took a liking to the sense of community service and joined a club at the high school promoting anti-violence. There was a problem, not a lot of athletes out for track, I took action into fixing the problem. In taking action there were many good things that happened. As an administrator I will continue to recognize the problems and seek solutions for them, I will not lose sight of what positives can happen in the process. I will also not settle when things are "good." Mentor(s) Brad Schweppe The date approved by his/her lead mentor: 07/10/2012

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