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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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. <span></span></p>
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