Monday, September 12, 2011
CEDO 565 - Week 4
This week I learned about school climate, environment, and morale, and how it affects teaching and learning. The school I work in now has great morale, and my colleagues and I work together very well as a team. I have worked in schools with terrible morale in the past, and it made me want to stay home from work every day. I know it affected my students, because I'm sure they could sense my unhappiness and it stunted their learning. The building of community and positive morale has to come from the leadership, and the school I was in with bad morale had very poor leadership. Our principal was not a strong leader, she did not work at building community, she pitted people against each other, and she did not support her teachers to the parents. All of these things combined made for very poor working conditions and a staff that could not work as a team or trust each other. I'm very grateful to be at the wonderful school I'm in now.
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You are very lucky to work in such a positive, supportive school. While I feel supported by my administration, I don't think the overall morale of the school is where it should be. I feel like it is stuck in "neutral"...things aren't negative but they aren't positive either. I'm very nervous about some upcoming decisions that are going to be made regarding the future of out system - possible restructure of our elementary schools and the possibility of one maybe even closing down. I worry how that is going to affect the morale and climate throughout the system.
ReplyDeletebeing able to experience both and good and bad leadership is a blessing. I think that people in a non-leadership position realize what they really want in a leader.
ReplyDeleteWhat d you think was done to achieve such a good morale in your building?
It sounds like you feel that good communication is key to good morale. I agree with you. Also, that good morale may be an example of the "trickle down" theory - if the people at the top don't have a good morale, the people farther down the hierarchy don't have it as well. In your experience, do you think that's true?
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