A leader understands and appropriately responds to the political, social, economic, legal and cultural contexts impacting schools and the school authority.
Hutterite colony schools are located at each colony. The buildings are owned and maintained by the colony. In 2012 the provincial government made changes to the Occupational Health and Safety regulations that had implications for all schools and school employees. The link below will show a memo I prepared to inform our colony leadership of how these changes would impact our staff and school buildings. We found it to be a very positive, team-like approach to an important development. The second link is to the O.H. & S. School Kit - a document provided by the provincial government to assist school jurisdictions in their compliance with the Act.
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I have marked diploma examinations each June (sometimes January too) since 1984 until 2009. While I have served as marking group leader for Language Arts 9 provincial achievement tests, my preference has been for English 30 and 30-1 diploma examinations. The process brings together approximately 175 English 30-1 teachers from throughout the province, and requires them to apply a common evaluation rubric as consistently as each other marker.
I have benefited by sharing numerous instructional strategies and resources with my partner teachers over the years. By virtue of evaluating an outcome evaluation, I have also been able to reflect backwards on the curriculum, and refine my own instruction in that context. I regard the experience as one of the most valuable professional development experiences I have ever participated in as a teacher.
I have benefited by sharing numerous instructional strategies and resources with my partner teachers over the years. By virtue of evaluating an outcome evaluation, I have also been able to reflect backwards on the curriculum, and refine my own instruction in that context. I regard the experience as one of the most valuable professional development experiences I have ever participated in as a teacher.
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