While reading chapter 27, reflect on what you perceive to be your own areas of strenght and what competencies you feel you need to work hardest to develop given your professional goals. State and describe at least three competencies you'd like to develop and why. I do understand that most of you are school teachers, not ID&T professionals, but certainly there is plenty overlap between these different types of roles.
My Strengths
I feel that I am very technically inept. I basically catch on to anything and very quickly. I currently fix PCs, write code, administer our server, end user support, etc. so I have experience on a wide range of technical aspects.
Competencies to work on
1. Assertiveness - I am not real assertive. I need to be able to speak my mind when something needs to be said or fought for but do it in a politically correct way
2. Confidence - I am not real confident in myself. I need to not second guess myself and just back myself up.
3. Learning P-12 - I have no experience when it comes to P-12. I need to learn the environment, political aspects, ISD's vs school districts etc. This way when I do become an administrator I will know the chain of command, the proper ways to do stuff, and the different techniques to use.
4. Certifications - I need to obtain my Novell, A++, and Microsoft certifications in order to further myself even more. I will be more valuable to where ever I end up with these certifications.
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Melissa with all of your experience and working towards your masters I am sure you will soon achieve your goals on competencies!
Sounds like you are on the right track. A good analysis will allow you to design yourself into a good position!
Melissa,
You and I sound so much alike it is scary. I am in full agreement with the fact that I also need to work on assertiveness and confidence. But I need to be politically correct.
I used to be the one that got stepped on all of the time because I didn't speak up. It wasn't because I didn't know, it was because I wasn't confident enough in my self to know that I knew just as much, if not more than others.
The difference between me and them was that they seemed to be confident, even when they were wrong.
Since then I have learned to adapt to my environment and am assertive when I need to be. The problem is that now, some that don't really know me, view me as being too assertive.
This have not boded well for me with my new boss that is insecure and doesn't know the information that she needs too. When I try to offer advise to make sure that the students that we are responsible for advising are not adversely affected because of her decisions, I get into "trouble".
I have even had lies put into my performance review over it. Needless to say I need to learn how to fight while being politically correct, but I am at my wits end because I didn't sign up to be a politician or did I?
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