Thursday, June 24, 2010
Teacher Consistency
One thing I've been struggling with is teacher consistency when it comes to classroom discipline. From my perspective, principals make it clear at the beginning of the school year that we treachers are expected to enforce school rules, yet as the year goes on, it is clear that some teachers are doing it and others are not. So if any of us were to be principal what should we do? Should we make the teacher review process include things like keeping track of classroom discipline issues? Should the principal or level 2 disciplinarians be periodically checking tardy logs to make sure teachers are keeping track of those sorts of things? Should they be spot checking that missed lunch detentions are followed up with a reassignment or a trip to in-school suspension? What do you think a principal should do if they notice that teachers aren't being consistent?
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Teacher consistency is indeed something that a leader can influence. I can tell that Julie is a high school teacher. When I taught high school, it was blatantly evident that there was a wide variety of discipline policies in place from teacher to teacher. I tried to put myself in the student's point of view. It is confusing for them to follow so many different discipline plans, from each class period.
With my supervisors, they seemed to be outsiders and often would interrupt classes. Consequences were in place, but the void between classrooms, and between classrooms and main office were great big ditches!
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