School Vision
The following is an assignment I did.
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For a driver to get from one location to another, driving directions are needed. Similarly, for a school to initiate change in order to move forward, some sorts of directions are needed. And this form of direction is what I will call the ‘school vision’. School vision should essentially be the focus of school leadership. A vision expresses the values and beliefs that educators (in that particular school) have for their students, themselves and the community at large, taking into consideration of its own demographics.
The school vision provided the school a platform for it to have a shared purpose and a clear laser-like focused on student teaching and learning. Besides identifying direction and purpose, the existence of a vision will also provides continuity and avoids the falter effect of planning fits and starts. This will greatly increase the efficacy, efficiency and productivity of the school.
Another ripple effect of this clear sense of direction is that school is able to priories their resources. The school will know exactly how much funding should be allocated to programs that have learning objectives tuning towards the school vision. This will enable to keep the school and the improvement efforts of its staff and students on task.
A school’s vision needs to be generated, owned and supported by the whole school community including the pupils, parents and the local community. In other words, there is not a signature attached to the vision. The vision belongs to everyone in the school. However, before this could happen, two things would have to come first. One, the school vision is the result of an authentic exchange of views among all the parties involved (principals, teachers and stakeholders). Two, in order to enable the vision to be visible to everyone in the school, school leaders have to communicate and express (in the form of both speech and behaviour) the vision regularly and consistently.
In conclusion, I would like to draw an analogy. Having a school vision is like an athlete competing. Athletes compete with a clear objective in mind, that is, the aspiration to win. However, often, winning comes after hard work, sacrifices and commitment. Or worse, even after all these, winning never come. But with winning, it also brings sweetness and satisfaction.
In the same way, commitment to the vision only comes after conviction of the vision. And conviction of the vision only comes after painfully talking and walking the vision. Celebration will only come after a long period of commitment, conviction and talking the vision. However, there are also times that celebration seems to be far fetch.
The following is a model which I drew in view of what I had written above.
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For a driver to get from one location to another, driving directions are needed. Similarly, for a school to initiate change in order to move forward, some sorts of directions are needed. And this form of direction is what I will call the ‘school vision’. School vision should essentially be the focus of school leadership. A vision expresses the values and beliefs that educators (in that particular school) have for their students, themselves and the community at large, taking into consideration of its own demographics.
The school vision provided the school a platform for it to have a shared purpose and a clear laser-like focused on student teaching and learning. Besides identifying direction and purpose, the existence of a vision will also provides continuity and avoids the falter effect of planning fits and starts. This will greatly increase the efficacy, efficiency and productivity of the school.
Another ripple effect of this clear sense of direction is that school is able to priories their resources. The school will know exactly how much funding should be allocated to programs that have learning objectives tuning towards the school vision. This will enable to keep the school and the improvement efforts of its staff and students on task.
A school’s vision needs to be generated, owned and supported by the whole school community including the pupils, parents and the local community. In other words, there is not a signature attached to the vision. The vision belongs to everyone in the school. However, before this could happen, two things would have to come first. One, the school vision is the result of an authentic exchange of views among all the parties involved (principals, teachers and stakeholders). Two, in order to enable the vision to be visible to everyone in the school, school leaders have to communicate and express (in the form of both speech and behaviour) the vision regularly and consistently.
In conclusion, I would like to draw an analogy. Having a school vision is like an athlete competing. Athletes compete with a clear objective in mind, that is, the aspiration to win. However, often, winning comes after hard work, sacrifices and commitment. Or worse, even after all these, winning never come. But with winning, it also brings sweetness and satisfaction.
In the same way, commitment to the vision only comes after conviction of the vision. And conviction of the vision only comes after painfully talking and walking the vision. Celebration will only come after a long period of commitment, conviction and talking the vision. However, there are also times that celebration seems to be far fetch.
The following is a model which I drew in view of what I had written above.
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