EDLD 5345 Week #3-"What do you feel would be the most difficult aspect of evaluating teacher and campus staff? How do you overcome that difficulty? What criteria do you feel is appropriate in evaluating teacher effectiveness, and how do you ensure fairness and objectivity during the evaluation process ?"

I believe that the most difficult aspect of evaluating teachers and staffs is personal conflict of interest because some of them may be associates close friends or even relatives. The aspect that I would keep in my mind in order to overcome that difficulty would be consider the evaluation process as a meant to provide feedback and an opportunity for improvement instead of looking it as a mean to intimidate or punish. In my experience as high school teacher the performance evaluations can be nerve racking, and for this very reason may not be a fair demonstration of the teacher’s performance. Therefore, as an administrator, every time I plan to evaluate a classroom teacher, I would inform him/her in ahead of time about the mandatory for performance evaluation. I would set up a meeting with the teacher few days prior to formal evaluation to discuss what to expect during the evaluation and what observer is seeking for in teaching performances. The meeting will benefit teachers because as he/she would be learning and will enhance his/her skills and self prepared, more confidence and do their best at the day of evaluation. This criterion is appropriate in evaluating teacher effectiveness, and ensuring fairness and objectivity during the evaluation process.

EDLD 5345 Human Resource Management -Ethic of Code

I defined ethics as the principle of good morality behaviors. Myself as deaf educator, my personal code of ethics could be tested in a leadership position because I often faced numerous obstacles communicating with administrators, staffs and parents beyond the basic concepts.In my experience, conflict occurs and exacerbate when communication channels are not set in place or become disrupted. This situation is even more obvious when we are talking about deaf teachers (like me) and it interaction with the school administration and rest of the staff members. Only a great deal of effort and creativity (problem solving outside the box) and the commitment to improve communication can possibly help to solve the day to day situations and conflicts. For example, when it comes to emergency situations, in many cases I faced what I call “communication slowdowns” because interpreters weren’t always available at those times. This experience illustrates the example that my personal ethic will be ultimately tested regarding to challenges of communication barriers. However, my personal code of ethic guide my decision making as a school leader, I will ensure to review and implement policies and procedures, along with ethical codes, that promote professional educator compliance in decision making, actions and behaviors and model the highest standard of conduct, ethical principles and integrity in decision making. It is imperative for me as school leader to apply knowledge of ethical issues affecting education, follow laws, policies, and procedure in a fair and reasonable manner, and communicate effectively with a school stakeholders and appropriate authorities about the decision making process.