Week 4 Discussion Topic for A R Project

These are the two questions posed by our professors in Week 4. I look forward to the feedback from my answers to them.

1. What specific challenges do you forsee in implementing and sharing of your AR Project?

One major challenge for me is the fact that I am a new hire at a new district and new school meeting new people to work with. I am also hoping that being the "new kid on the block" does not keep me from being in the loop. I also need to complete more hours of the internship now because of the changes made this summer. I forsee a small challenge of learning the way this administration and science department run meetings and projects.



2. How do you plan to adress these challenges?

I have thought about this the entire summer and most importantly with this class.
First, I made it clear to my administration and dept chair that I want and need to be an active memeber of the team to help lead these programs. This school missed Exemplary status because of a select population and they know there is a fix to it. We now just have to tackle the work as a team and prove it works so we can model it for the district.
The next issue of learning how things are run is quite simple. I will sit back and listen and observe one or two meetings and give feedback as asked until I get a feel for who does what. However, I plan to come in with the skills I have learned and use those along with resources gained in studies to help with my feedback. I also have 4 yrs of classroom experience in two levels of science that should be a strong lead. I will not come in a take over but depicting a strong leadership quality is what I want to prtray for my future roles.