When I look around at my district and school as a whole, I can identify rational, natural and open/social systems. In a rational system, all individuals involved are working towards the same goal without regard to the personal interests of its workforce. One area that my school displays a rational system is through the safety procedures for fires, tornados and lockdown drills. My school has specific guidelines on how teachers are to get the students from the areas they are currently at to the safest place possible. We as staff members are responsible to these guidelines and are to follow them to the best of our abilities because that is what has been put in to place by our district and principal. In regards to a natural system in my school, we have in place reading and math committees. These committees, while wanting to see all students grow, also have very different goals in mind. The reading and math committees were set up this past year by our building principal and building leadership team (BLT). The aim of the committees are to bring the deficiencies that we observe our kids come to us with, and then coming up with ways to address those weaknesses as a group. We are not under the thumb of an administrator or the district to do what they feel is best, but our committees are given freedom as a group to come up with different strategies that we feel are best to help solve the deficiencies we are observing. For me to see an open/social system in action, I believe that I have to look no farther than any public school district in the country. The districts are given money via tax payer or community businesses to hire the needed staff (teachers, cooks, custodians, principals, etc.). Students are then brought to us beginning in kindergarten and some as early as pre-school. Through standards and curriculum that is given to teachers by the school district, teachers are then expected to help the students reach their maximum potential until their set graduation date. After graduation students are expected to be able to go out and be a productive individual to society through the workforce, or advance to college, hopefully obtaining a degree, and then coming out as a contributing member to society. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/ous-lp-rp13/attachments/20180608/0d2070c7/attachment.html >
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