*I feel fairly confident that I have enough a mastery of the three personality traits of a leader (personality, motivation, skill) to be an effective principal.As a band director, I am used to being without peers who understand what I do in a building. Because of this, I am in the habit of creating support networks outside of school. I feel these support networks, this cohort quite possibly being one of them, will assist me with stress and may provide council for scenarios for which I am not yet prepared.Also as a part of my role, unlike perhaps any other teacher or coach in the district, I am in charge of an entire program that keeps students (and their parents) together with me for 8 years or longer. Additionally, students have to choose to be in my class. If I do not attract enough 10 year-olds, or retain enough students through seniors in high school my program will dwindle and die. I bring this up to speak to the transformational leadership and motivational skills I have already been developing under my current role unlike any other teacher or coach. I need to, as a part of keeping my job, to appeal to needs, mold student’s beliefs, and structure a program where, at every level, students can feel they are achieving and heading toward even larger greatness.Furthermore, with regards to skill I am a product of my generation with regards to technology, I am intimately familiar with leadership practices, and I have regularly shown my abilities to recruit, align, and motivate parents through booster organizations.That is not to say I do not have shortcomings. Under every single one of the aspects above, I am still in a state of continuous improvement. I read regularly to rejuvenate my approaches to student leadership. I frequently run into conflicts I do not know how to approach where I go to my mentors for guidance. Like the programs I run, I myself am in a constant state of growth.In closing, if there were one thing personally I would like to focus on improving more so than others it would be how to quickly recognize personality needs in other people. I believe that that skill can be very useful to me as an administrator and in life.* *Nicholas Turon* Director of Bands Paint Valley Local Schools nicholas.turon at gmail.com (740)-816-8266 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/ous-lp-rp13/attachments/20180614/25f09ae3/attachment-0001.html >
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