Domains
Domain I – School, Community, Leadership
Culture, Climate, Vision
Campus culture
Parent and community
Communication
Diversity needs
Planning
Modeling ethics
Applying the law
(33% of the test) Competencies 1-3
Domain II – Instructional Leadership
Curriculum, Instruction and Staff Development
Application of Leadership
In regards to instruction
Students and Teachers
(44% of the test) Competencies 4-7
Domain III – Administrative Leadership
Resources, Facilities, Safety
Application of Leadership
In regard to
Schools plant
Equipment
Support Personnel
Budgeting / Purchasing
(22% of the test) Competencies 8-9
Culture, Climate, Vision
Campus culture
Parent and community
Communication
Diversity needs
Planning
Modeling ethics
Applying the law
(33% of the test) Competencies 1-3
Domain II – Instructional Leadership
Curriculum, Instruction and Staff Development
Application of Leadership
In regards to instruction
Students and Teachers
(44% of the test) Competencies 4-7
Domain III – Administrative Leadership
Resources, Facilities, Safety
Application of Leadership
In regard to
Schools plant
Equipment
Support Personnel
Budgeting / Purchasing
(22% of the test) Competencies 8-9
Competencies
Domain I
Competency 1:
- Planning
- What do we need to do to meet the needs of the students
- Create the vision of learning and what it looks like
- Set high expectations
- Influencing school culture
- Direction
What to do during internship:
· Campus improvement meeting
· Planning meetings
· Celebration day for a staff member
Competency 2:
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Internal and external audience
- Stakeholders (everyone) – try to get everyone on the same page
- PR
- Keep the central office in the loop of a PR situation
- Connect with the PTA and with the community
- PTA can raise a lot of money. If they know campus goals, they will probably be willing to help
- Dialogue with the PTA, have a PTA board member as part of site-based committee
- All stakeholders should be working together
What to do during internship:
· PTA board meeting
· PTA events
· Teacher collaboration meeting
· Community involvement meeting
· Parent communication
· School communication· School board meeting
Competency 3:
- Integrity
- Fairness (different from equal)
- Ethics
- How you treat people in a fair manner
- Promote awareness of differences
- Multicultural awareness
- Student advocate
- Promote student development
- Importance of education
- Apply laws, policies, and procedures
- Legality for disability, bilingual education, confidentiality, discrimination, protect the rights
- Comply with code of ethics
- Model conduct, ethical principles, and integrity – principal is teacher’s teacher
- If you need to vent, find another administrator as your confidant
- Tell teachers if they need to vent, do it behind closed doors
What to do during internship:
· ARD meeting
· Discipline
· Confidentiality discussion· LPAC meeting
Domain II
Competency 4:
- Testing
- Facilitate the design and implementation of curricula
- Align curriculum, instruction, resources and assessment
- Promote varied assessment
- Facilitate campus curriculum planning
- Use research-based practices
- Collaboration on planning, implementation, monitoring, and revision
What to do during internship:
· Curriculum planning meeting
· Curriculum alignment meeting
· Best practices research
· Benchmark · PLC's
· Review data from most recent curriculum based assessment
· Attend a grade level meeting to discuss curriculum changes based on STAAR data
· Curriculum mapping meeting
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Competency 5:
- Big picture, school culture, the entire school
- Advocate, nurture, sustain instructional program and campus culture
- Staff professional growth (everyone is getting it)
- Provide appropriate student services
- Improve campus instructional strategies
- Promote research-based student learning
- Integrate the use of technology
- Classroom management
- Implement and evaluate student services and programs
- Use data
- Allocate resources effectively
- Staffing patterns
- Class schedule formats
- School organizational structure
- Student discipline practices
- Step out of the box and be a life-long learner
- Allow risk and failure as part of the learning
What to do during internship:
· Staff development
· Data meeting
· Budget meeting
· Technology training
· Work on master schedule evaluation
· Student discipline
· Lead/Oversee technology staff development
Competency 6:
- Individual situations, not the whole school
- Staff evaluation
- Appropriate models of supervision
- Staff development for individuals or small groups
- Legal requirements for personnel management
- Formative and summative evaluations
- Legal recruitment, promotion, discipline, and dismissal
- PDAS
- Always write legal documentation
- The principal must be a life-long learner
What to do during internship:
· Staff evaluation
· Staff development
· Walkthrough
· Teacher evaluation (with permission) – debrief
Competency 7:
- Organization
- Decision-making and problem-solving
- Need to know how to delegate
- Establish policies on how you communicate
- Be ok to share what you can share
- Empower others with knowledge
- Old model – the higher you go the more you know
- Now – teachers know more, they feel a part of the organization
- Flow info vertically and horizontally
- Develop systems how to spread the information
- Privacy
- Resolve problems, care for people
- Promote collaborative decision making
- Team building
- Facilitate positive change
- Overcome obstacles to change
- Monitor and evaluate change, adjust as needed
What to do during internship:
· Site-based committee, sit on a meeting
· PTA board meeting
· Traffic-flow problem – conversation discussion
· Conversation about a new program on campus
Domain III
Competency 8:
- Budget
- Personnel
- Resource utilization
- Financial management
- Technology use
What to do during internship:
· Budget meeting
· Technology
· Textbooks
Competency 9:
- Campus physical plant
- Ensure a safe and effective learning environment
- Ensure safety of students and personnel
- Address emergencies and security concerns
- Develop procedures for crisis planning and responding
- Make sound decisions based on laws
What to do during internship:
· Safety
· Facilities
· Fire drill
· Other drills
· Walk around with custodian
· Is there anything around the building
· Safety hazards
· Lunch duty
· Bus duty
· Before school duty