*Response to Samantha HowellAfter reading your answer to question two, I believe my experience closely resembles yours. I have changed principals from year to year and have gotten a mix of leaders and managers. The professional structured system is one that I have enjoyed the most and it has allowed me to become the best teacher that I could be. This systems trusts the professionalism and allows for creativity of teachers. Although, some teachers may enjoy a different structure this one is by far my favorite and it sounds like yours as well. The staff tends to be more positive and invest more into everything they do when they are treated as professionals and can make decisions based off on what is best for the kids. You described the chaotic structure as being the least structure that resembles the professional structure I would agree. Professional-structure is a stable structure while the chaotic structure is ineffective and turbulent. I have also worked under a more authoritative structure where the relationship between teacher and principal became a struggle. We had a hard time communicating and developing ideas/decisions on what was best for children or an individual child in the classroom. Some of my fellow teachers didn't have a problem with the authoritarian structure but I most certainly did. Reading your response and justifying why your school is a professional structure checks nearly every box for the characteristics of this type of structure. * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/ous-lp-rp13/attachments/20180618/5659b8ae/attachment-0001.html >
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