Staffing Practices

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Staffing Practices
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Present Practices
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• Almost the reverse of the ideal

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Non-ideal Staffing Practices
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• Security and monitoring/disciplinary duties
• supervision of non-instructional areas
• clerical duties

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Ideal Staffing Practices
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• Individuality
• Great personal discretion particularly in
  curriculum
• Not self-contained or teach in isolation
• Training will emphasize the technology of
  education
• Teachers routinely evaluate other teachers
  welcome being evaluated
• Teachers display self confidence

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Ideal Staffing Practices (cont)
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• Teachers have the same status as administrators
  and never view administrators as antagonists
• Will not purchase professional supplies with
  personal funds
• Staff development will take place on the job
• Least experience the easiest assignments
• Teachers work 40 hour work week longer when
  necessary, shorter when appropriate

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Differentiated Staffing
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• Different status/pay for differentiated
  responsibilities
• Not merit pay

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Teachers and Their Staffs
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Professional levels
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• paraprofessional
• assistant teacher
• intern
• associate teacher
• professional teacher
• master teacher/mentor

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Professional specialties
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• presenter
• facilitator
• counselor
• content

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Professional specialties (cont.)
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• instructional design
• evaluation
• community involvement
• resource development management

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Professional relationships
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• building administrators
• supervisors
• staff development specialists
• district administrators
• parents

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Professional relationships (cont.)
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• community leaders
• professional organizations
• universities
• state department of education
• funding agencies

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Support staff
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• clerks
• technicians
• volunteers
• facilitators
• guest speakers
• security/monitor personnel

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Contract Services
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• testing
• data bases
• telephone help lines
• instructional management

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Making It Happen
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• See the end in the beginning
• If teachers believe it cant happen - it wont
• The power of positive thinking