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As a supervisor of a specified area it is important to be active in the role one plays to improve the curriculum. This is a very difficult thing to do if I have no presence in the classroom and have no idea exactly what is going on in the classroom besides the two or three evaluations I do a year on the teacher. “The most important people within and outside schools know very little about what actually goes on inside them.” (Page 13) I find this statement to be one of the most problematic statements referring to schools today. I also find this statement to be very true. Some of the most important people when it comes to school and evaluating teachers and the school itself, are simply not present on a daily basis to see what goes on in the classroom. There needs to be a better presence of higher power watching, and taking notes on the things that actually go on within a classroom. I am aware that school budgets don’t allow to new people to be hired to do just that, get in the classroom and evaluate on a consistent basis, and it is difficult for one person who has many other things to do to get in the classroom all the time as well, but maybe the roles of the supervisors, and the administrators need to be reevaluated and reconstructed to make it possible for them to get in the classroom more often and evaluate teachers on a consistent basis.
The second quote that is very important in the schools is “No one can lead effectively where constructive feedback is regarded as an invasion of privacy, an affront to professionalism." (page 29) This statement is very important in any learning or teaching environment. Being able to relay criticism and feedback to a teaching is an integral part of a teacher improving and constantly making themselves better teachers. This atmosphere within all classrooms and a district itself is created starting from the highest level of administration all the way down the newest and youngest teacher just entering the field. All teachers and administrators need to feel comfortable enough to have open communications with each other and ensure that they are there to help each other.
D. “We have created a system in which generations of talented, hard-working teachers have engaged in inferior practices without receiving feedback that would alert them to this fact.” This goes along with the last quote take from page 29, and all of the practices that teachers and administrators have fallen into in recent years as well as the first quote. All of these excerpts from the reading are directly related and need to be fixed within the school system. Administrators need to change the way they evaluated and teachers need to be open to criticism and evaluations and not take them personally.