<div dir="ltr"><div>Saretta, </div>I do think in the short time that I have been around you, you are definitely an extrovert. I think this is a great quality for an administrator to have. Administrators need to be able to be a people person and to be likeable. Administrators deal with so many different people such as: students, parents, colleagues. I agree with you that in order for us to be furthering our careers, we need to have a lot of self-motivation. This is a great quality to have because we have to keep ourselves motivated to meet our daily goals and expectations as well as keep our staff and students motivated. I definitely relate to you with having a weakness in the area of technology. I feel like I am not up to date with all of the new technology that is available to us as teachers and our students. I think if we just continue to try to stay up to date with the new advances or possibly even take a technology course, that this would help us to feel more confident with technology. I also think that you being able to form relationships so quickly with your peers is a great personality trait to have. To be an administrator, you are going to have to form relationships with your staff and parents and I think it is great that you were able to do that so quickly. <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Saretta Jackson <<a href="mailto:sjackson@southpoint.k12.oh.us" target="_blank">sjackson@southpoint.k12.oh.us</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"> In looking at the three leadership traits, and their corresponding subsets, I can find areas of strength. I feel that my personality is that of an extrovert. To be a teacher, I feel that one has to possess a certain amount of self-confidence. Without some level of self-confidence you would not be able to stand in the front of the room and teach. Integrity should be already inherently important to any educator, both outside and inside the classroom. My age and life experiences, thus far, lend me to feel that I have reached a level of emotional maturity suitable for a position of authority. However, I do find that I have a very low stress tolerance. I tend to get rattled easily if I feel that I am not in control of a situation. I feel that my interpersonal skills are quite honed. For example; I was hired to teach Kindergarten after school had already begun. I was hired in a building that I was not very familiar with, and to teach alongside people that I had not yet built a relationship with. By Christmas of that year, I had a very good relationship with my colleagues and we were planning fun and engaging lessons with our whole grade level. This past school year I was moved to a first grade position and, again, I have formed a strong relationship within the grade level. Being a primary teacher, there has to be some knowledge and familiarity of conceptual skills. Being able to take a brand new concept and break it down into workable pieces to help my students master that concept is something that, not only is very interesting to me, but that, I feel, I am comfortable with. However, I have to say that the use of technology is not something that I would pride myself on. This is one area that I will need constant refreshing and access to the wonderful IT person in our building. Any educator has to have some level of motivation, or else we wouldn’t have gotten as far as we have in our careers. I was motivated to earn, not one, but two undergraduate degrees. I feel that I am able to meet the expectations of my administrator and the expectations of my students and their parents. I have also strived to be very clear about the expectations that I have of my students and of my own classroom. These listed expectations are listed and handed out with our “Beginning of Year” packet that the parents pick up on our building’s beginning of year open house. I think I might struggle with having power needs. I feel that there is a noted difference in being in charge of a situation and actually craving the power that comes with being in charge. I had to dig a little deeper to not that difference between self-efficacy and self-confidence. Self-efficacy is define by an individual’s belief in his or her innate ability to achieve goals. This particular trait, I feel, is crucial to being successful in anything that you choose to do. I believe that I am going to be successful in my endeavors, so therefore, I foresee that I will be a success. There are strengths and weaknesses in all of us. The key is to build upon the strengths that you already recognize within yourself and have the wisdom to admit your weaknesses. Once those weaknesses are identified, then the act of growth can begin. </div> _______________________________________________ Ous-lp-rp13 mailing list <a href="mailto:Ous-lp-rp13@listserv.ohio.edu">Ous-lp-rp13@listserv.ohio.edu</a> <a href="https://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/ous-lp-rp13" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/ous-lp-rp13</a> </blockquote></div> </div></div>

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