Decision-Making

Question 1

Classical Decision Making Model

Answer 1

Peter Drucker (1993)

1. Identify the problem
2. Generate alternatives
3. Evaluate alternatives
4. Choose the best alternative
5. Implement the decision
6. Evaluate the decision

Question 2

Site-based, Shared Decision-Making, or Participatory Decision-Making

Answer 2

1. People closest to the children.
2. People responsible for carrying out the decision.
3. Those who implement it have ownership and responsibility in the process.

Question 3

Site-based management

Beck & Murphy (1996)

Answer 3

*Fosters teacher leadership!

1. Focus on learning
2. Strong, facilitative leadership
3. A sense of internal & external community
4. Resources aimed at building the capacity of people.

Question 4

What is a learning community?

Answer 4

Teaching teams made up of teachers, staff, faculty, administrators that develop shared values and commitments.

Question 5

What are the high effect size indicators?

Answer 5

1. Feedback practices: monitors, evaluates proficiency, and provides timely feedback
2. Facilitating Professional Learning: provide faculty with quality resources and time for professional learning & engages faculty in effective individual and collaborative learning.
3. Clear goals & expectations: goals and expectations are communicated clearly and concisely; timely information
4. Instructional Resources: maximizes the impact of school personnel and fiscal and facility resources.
5. Higher effect size strategies: the school leader takes actions to ensure that instructional personnel receive recurring feedback
6. Instructional Initiatives: monitoring of implementation and measurement of progress toward initiative goals and professional learning to improve faculty capacity to implement the initiatives.

Question 6

Instructional Improvement Initiatives

Answer 6

1. Monitoring Text Complexity: writing in response to text & text-based discussion with students
2. Interventions: teacher -collected student response data is used to determine the effectiveness of instruction and interventions; student sub groups (MTSS)
3. Instructional Adaptations: structured data-based planning and problem-solving process in order to modify instruction and interventions; monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of this modifications (MTSS)
4. ESOL Strategies