I believe that the Superintendent courses I have taken have definitely helped me grow as an instructional leader. I compared my responses from my answers to the self-assessment in the first course I took with my current answers and found that I have learned a great deal of information in my classes. I feel that Competency 1 is overall a strength for me. I scored five of the six indicators as a strength. The only area in which I scored myself competent was the area of applying laws, policies, and procedures in a fair and reasonable manner. In my first self-assessment, I scored myself as competent in all areas of Competency 1.
I also believe that Competency 2 is an overall area of strength for me. I scored nine of the 11 indicators as a strength. The two other areas, encourage and model innovative thinking and risk taking and view problems as opportunities and promote multicultural awareness, gender sensitivity, and the appreciation of diversity in the educational community, were scored as competent. In my first assessment, I scored myself the same in the area of encouraging and modeling innovative thinking and risk taking and viewing problems as opportunities. In the area of promoting multicultural awareness, gender sensitivity, and the appreciation of diversity in the education community, I scored myself as needing to improve in the first self-assessment.
I scored myself in Competency 3 with six areas of strength and five areas of competence. The areas that I believe that I am strong in are: serve as an articulate, effective communicator for the importance of public education in a free democratic society; analyze community and district structures and identify major opinion leaders and their relationships to district goals and programs; establish partnerships with families, area businesses, institutions of higher education, and community groups to strengthen programs and support district goals; develop and use formal and informal techniques to gain an accurate view of the perceptions of district staff, families, and community members; articulate the district's vision and priorities to the community and to the media; and communicate effectively about positions on educational issues using effective writing, speaking, and active listening skills to ensure educational success for all students. In my first self-assessment, I scored myself as either competent or needing to improve on all of the indicators.
In Competency 4, I rated myself as competent in all areas. This is an improvement from my pre-assessment, in which I scored myself as an area on which I would like to focus and improve my knowledge and skill in all areas. This is an area in which I will still need to focus to improve upon even more.
In Competency 5, I scored seven of the ten competencies as areas of strength. The three areas which were not strengths were all scored as areas of competency. These three areas are: implement planning procedures to develop curricula that achieve optimal student learning and that anticipate and respond to occupational and economic trends; facilitate the integration of technology into the school district curriculum to enhance learning for all students; and facilitate the effective coordination creative thinking, critical thinking, and problem solving by appropriate school district staff and other individuals involved in curriculum design and delivery. In my first self-assessment, I scored one area as needing improvement ad all of the other areas as being competent. The area in which I felt I needed to improve was facilitating the effective coordination of district and campus curricular and extracurricular programs. I improved this area into one of strength in the current self-assessment.
Competency 6 was an area of great improvement in learning for me. I scored myself competent in six areas and as a strength in five areas. In my previous assessment, I scored myself in the last four areas as areas of improvement. In the post-assessment, I scored two of these areas as strengths and the other two as being competent areas.
Competency 7 was another area of great improvement for me. In the first self-assessment, I scored myself competent in the first six areas and in need of improving my knowledge and skill in the last three indicators. In my current evaluation, I scored the first five areas as strengths ad the last four as areas in which I am competent.
In Competency 8, I improved from almost all indicators needing improvement in my knowledge and skills to most of the areas being areas of competency and two indicators being areas of strength. The two areas that I scored myself as being areas of strength are: apply knowledge associated with personnel management, including requirements related to certifying, recruiting, screening, selecting, evaluating, disciplining, reassigning, and dismissing personnel and manage one's own time and the time of others to enhance district operations.
In Competency 9, I improved in all indicators. In the first self-assessment, I scored myself as competent in two areas: apply strategies for ensuring the safety of students and personnel and for addressing emergencies and security concerns and develop and implement procedures for emergency planning and for responding to crises. In the current self-assessment, I scored these two areas as areas of strength. I scored all other indicators as areas in which I needed to improve on the first self-assessment. On the current self-assessment, I scored these areas as areas of competency.
I believe that Competency 10 was my area of least growth. I scored myself as being competent on all indicators on the first self-assessment. On the second self-assessment, I scored the first two indicators as strengths and all others as areas of competency.
Overall, I believe that I have learned a great deal of information in the courses I have taken. This is evidenced by the comparison of the two self-evaluations I have completed.
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