What kind of School are you working for? (A Questionnaire on the ‘micro-climate’ of an institution)
This is a response to many readers and trainees who talk about the frequent frustration befalling newly (or not so “newly”…) trained teachers finding themselves teaching in an environment where their training is not only not appreciated, but actually seen either as undesirable or as a threat.
On the opposing camp, I hear many Twitter friends who are administrators bemoaning the lack of passion, enthusiasm and, on occasion, technical knowledge of the skills of teaching in educators.
How can these two groups be drawn together?
One of the key factors, the climate which prevails in an educational institution of any kind, is very often determined by school leadership, be that a Director of Studies or Academic Coordinator. But do all directors of studies have the leadership qualities which will create the right microclimate?
Here is a questionnaire to make you think about the kind of environment you are working in or have created for yourself or for others – whoever you are, teacher or school owner, its aim is to make you think and, then, hopefully, act in a positive way [googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScikDZiJC3FBbRAR3DBuXAloT4hZMsSPNRzeC6Aq4767ab6qw/viewform” query=”embedded=true” width=”640″ height=”4748″ /]
I hope to be able to send this as a survey questionnaire to teachers soon.
Please let me know what you think about this idea which is an adaptation from an earlier work by Guildford on the question of identifying the microclimate of an institution generating creativity in the ELT classroom.
Reference
– Guilford, J.P., 1968, Intelligence. Creativity and their Educational Implications. San Diego, Robert R. Knapp Publications
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Very interesting questions. Wondering if some of these points could be of value to admin team as well as teaching team.
Hi Elly – yes, of course they would be – as I say somewhere in the post “Here is a questionnaire to make you think about the kind of environment you are working in or have created for yourself or for others – whoever you are, teacher or school owner, its aim is to make you think and, then, hopefully, act in a positive way.”
Thank you for commenting
Marisa
Good questions here, almost scared to ask myself these regarding the school I work for, will have to forward this to my colleagues. I love getting these little educational tidbits from online educational communities like this, educationweek, speedreadinfo, edublogs and others. Its helped me a lot. Thanks. 🙂
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