Ian, I completely agree with your outlook on the rational system. The safety procedures that are put in place for schools are for just as it says, the safety of both students and staff. The safety procedures in my district were made and put in to place by a group of individuals who are very skilled in those areas. It is our responsibility to follow those procedures so that we can ensure the safety of ourselves as well as our students. In contrast to the rational system I love that in the natural system the teacher is able to personalize their goals, and the methods that they choose to obtain those goals. Just as you do with your grade band, the other fourth grade teachers and I also sit down as a grade level at the beginning of the year and discuss goals and standards, so that we are able to do our best to ensure that each individual student is making the proper strides to reach not only the expectations I have in place, but also the expectations that they themselves have put in place. After looking at the other two types of systems, I too believe that the open system was the most difficult to understand. However, after looking at it closer, I began to understand a little bit more of what it’s about. As a teacher, I know that I have many roles beyond just being a teacher (ex. nurse, counselor, parent and the list goes on). However, to the state, the parents, and some school boards, we are expected to in addition the other roles mentioned above; take the students (input) teach them the standards put in place by the state in which they need to know, and send them back out (output) to go in to the workforce or go to college to receive further education. So, our ultimate aiming point is to prepare the students for the world that they will enter after they exit the building from obtaining their diploma. Acting as a nurse, counselor, and parent are roles that we need to take so that we can give the public the students and future citizens they are looking for. Thank you for sharing! A series of rational, natural, and open systems must coincide to ensure that the daily routines of the school day operate properly. Rational systems are more structured and formative that are typically put in place by administration to ensure that proper procedures are followed through. A rational system that I find important in my school setting is the safety procedures. Student safety is one of the most important aspects of a school system and the procedures put in place are to ensure that everybody involved remains as safe as possible. If a process is not followed through properly then the entire system could potentially face the consequences. A natural system is more of a bottom up approach where as a rational system is a top down approach. Natural systems provide less structure and more flexibility for more input from the individual and not the organization. At the beginning of the school year each department, subject, meet as a team to discuss their goals for the school year and the overlapping standards to guarantee that the proper material is covered throughout the year. The natural system here is that each teacher is to take what applies from the meeting and is trusted to make sure they cover the appropriate material and prepare their students for the next year so that each student is on task and each foundational block prepares them for the next step in the building process. The system that might be the toughest on the school system would be the open system. This system is where the public has the strongest input and control over the organization. An example of this that my school system recently encountered was during the election process where we were in need of two new school board members. With two members retiring there was a chance for the public to make a strong change in the individuals that make some of the largest decisions in the school. This process allows the public to voice their opinion in the school process by electing the members that they share the common belief with. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/ous-lp-rp13/attachments/20180611/7719b407/attachment.html >
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