By Barry Sweeny, SIP Consultant
FEATURES |
1-DENIAL | 2-ANGER | 3-ADJUSTMENT |
4-GRUDGING ACCEPTANCE |
5-WILLING ACCEPTANCE |
6-PROACTIVE |
| ATTITUDE ABOUT THE STATE REFORMS |
·Wants pure local control ·Would disband St. Bd. of Educ. |
·Hates the State ·Ridicules State efforts to improve education |
·Thinks the State is out of touch with reality & is interfering but probably can't be ignored any longer | ·Acknowledges need to respond to State initiatives which are well-intended but misconceived | ·Decides some state initiatives may be good ideas & worth doing |
·Does continuous sch. improvement even if the State didn't require it. ·Knows the State is learning too. |
| ATTITUDE ABOUT THE SERVICE CENTER SIP CONSULTANT | ·Doesn't know there is a free SIP consultant service available from the ESC | ·Wants to meet the ESC SIP consultant & tell him a thing or two | Invites an ESC SIP consultant to explain the SIP requirements (usually to others) |
·Invites the SIP consultant to critique the SIP plan or a specific assessment tool. ·Expects affirmation |
·Invites the SIP consultant to help plan the specific activities the staff will do for SIP ·Expects to learn |
Invites the SIP consultant to be a part of celebrating SIP milestones & for periodic ideas & reactions |
| ATTITUDE ABOUT THE SIP PROCESS | ·Doesn't know there is a SIP required | ·Recycles SIP handouts without reading them | ·Has decided that a SIP team should try to improve test scores since the Quality Review checks every individual school |
·Can explain the school's SIP if put on the spot ·Decides to help the SIP team or agrees to join it if asked |
-Teaches others about the SIP process using own words & examples -Asks questions others have not thought of |
·Continually asks "Is what we are doing getting us where we want to be ?" |
| ATTITUDE ABOUT RE- STRUCTURING | ·Thinks that the school & teaching is fine as it is & wonders "What's the State worried about?" | ·Answers every SIP question with "Where will we find the time to do that?" | ·Participates in a few SIP activities but considers SIP an "add-on" so it is "One more thing I have to do." | ·Makes the time to do SIP activities | ·Shifts priorities to FIND more time for collaborative & systemic efforts | -Considers every resource to be a candidate for restructuring to improve learning for all students |
| ATTITUDE ABOUT ASSESSMENT | ·Believes that the "new" assessments are not new & will go away if ignored | ·Thinks that any performance-based assessments would be unrelated to the school's curricula & so are useless. | ·Wants to know what "rubrics", "tasks", "validity" & "inter-rater reliability" are & why we need them | ·Knows what rubric, tasks, validity, & inter-rater reliability are & why we need them | · Uses rubrics & tests to assess the full range of skills & content students must master | · Uses assessment data as feed back to find opportunities for instructional improvement, to self-assess & to monitor progress. |