Running head: Competency Reflection

Competency Reflection

By:

Candace Calvillo

A.Patrick Huff Ph.D

EDUC 6331

April 20, 2017

Competency Reflection

Throughout this past year as I completed my internship I was able to become more

familiar with the competencies that are expected out of a principal or a staff in a leadership role.

The first semester allowed me time to work in all competency areas while the second semester

allowed me time to focus on the areas that I was not comfortable with or needed more experience

in. Overall, the internship portion of the program gave me great insight into all competencies and

how each affect the schools environment and successfulness.

Through the internship, the competencies that I feel I still need to improve on are

competency 004 and competency 006. Competency 004, covers how the principal knows how to

facilitate the design and implementation of curricula and strategic plans that enhance teaching

and learning. I feel that I struggle in this area because I am still not fully involved in the general

curriculum so there are items that I am still not familiar with. I teach my students a different

curriculum and we completed different assessments. I do collaborate with the general ed when it

involves discussing tutorials because I assist them with reading. I would like to have been more

involved and I have hopes that next year regardless of what I teach, I can be engaged in more of

the general curriculum areas. In competency 006, it covered how the principal implements staff

evaluation and development systems to improve performance of staff. For this competency, I feel

that though I completed professional development, I did not attend as many as I would have

liked. I did have the opportunity to meet other campuses with questions and concerns for my

field and relations to my classroom. I would like to improve that and meet with the general ed

and attend some of their trainings and meeting to enhance my understanding of all grades and

subjects.

The competencies that I feel I am strong in are competency 002 and 007. Competency

002, covers how the principal communicates and collaborates with all members of the school
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community. I am strong in this area because I communicate with my students parents daily. I

communicate with them about the progress of their child, concerns they may have, or plans that

they wish their child to be when they leave my classroom. I feel the teaching assistants and I

collaborate very well. Every day we discuss how the day went with our students, what changes

we should make, and generally just how we each are doing. I feel this competency is important

to succeed in because communication and collaboration is key to a successful environment. My

collaboration and communication does not stop in my classroom, these skills I use with the

general teachers as well. Our collaboration entails when we are discussing ideas for improving

their testing scores and how tutorials could assist them, discussing behavior problems and how

some calming techniques could decrease them, and how we can all get more family involvement.

My next competency is 007 and I feel I like our principal know how to apply organizational,

decision making and problem solving skills. There are days when my ideas or plans for my

classroom do not work. That could be because of a behavior issue, lack of material, lack of

involvement or just an unexpected assembly. Whatever the case maybe, I feel that with the

assistance of my team and students, a decision is always easily made. I have a system for

gathering my students data, and deciding what actions need to be taken to improve their scores

and be sure that they meet their goals. I think when it comes to ensuring that organization and

problem solving skills are mastered then the environment of the classroom will be successful

because items will be in place along with situations being handled when a curve ball in thrown in

the classroom.

Self-Reflection

All nine competencies are important and each carry a significance when discussing the

jobs and responsibility of the principal. As my internship comes to an end, I think about all the
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areas that I have improved in as a professional in the education world, as a teacher, a leader, and

as an individual. I have learned so much through observation and collaboration with veteran staff

and administration. I think this program really allowed me to get the realization of what future

could be. It allowed me to get firsthand experience on what my potential responsibilities would

be and how I could handle them. I feel that if I had the opportunity to do this intern over, I would

like to obtain more responsibility then I was able to this round. There were two other colleagues

that were in the masters program and a lot of the duties here on campus went to them. Not

taking that as an excuse, I just would have spoken up and been more persistent on my duties and

potential jobs. I am not sure what my plans entail for next year, but I will definitely use this

experience. The experience helped me improve skills that will allow me to be more successful

with my students, my students parents, my colleagues, and with my admin. The projects that I

worked on this year involved the parents and students. I would like to continue that and increase

the amount of involvement. A lot fo the work was completed by teachers to help students and

parents, I would like to extend it and have the students assist with the work and responsibilities.

That will all them to gain responsibly and see how rewarding it is to work and see it succeed. It

will also allow them to gain experience for when they more to the next grade and school. Based

on the response of the staff and community I was able to tell if the projects were as successful as

I had hoped. One project involved mostly the special education population, I would like to

include the general population to continue to spread awareness. For our school being so small, I

feel that the special education population are still not as represented as I would hope. I plan to

use and increase the Awareness project in hopes that all see and understand how amazing these

students are.