I. What are my strengths as a leader? As a leader, there are many words and attributes that can describe my strengths. To be frank, I am someone who is driven, creative, teachable, adaptable, and capable of achieving and guiding. I think that as a leader, I bring a unique presence and ability to think outside of the box. I am someone who thrives on being flexible and finding unique answers, or solutions, to challenges. As a teacher, I am a member of a team teaching dynamic. We have special needs students and typical students in our class with two lead teachers, and one instructional assistant. In this environment, I am essentially forced to be flexible and constantly adapt to ever-changing needs of students. In this environment, I learn from …show more content…
For me, as a leader, I believe that two of my biggest challenges are being short-tempered and being too ambitious. Leading and guiding peers is an honor and delight; being said, as a leader I have observed that I am often overly ambitious when it comes to tasks and visions or missions. As a member of a teaching team, I created my initial student learning objectives as very, very high goals for each student. Upon my initial assessment of these SLO’s I was faced with a challenge: none of my students were growing fast enough to make the goals by the end of the year. So, I had to bite the bullet and adapt these goals to reflect the needs to the students…not the needs of the leader. Additionally, I am short-tempered. I’ll be the first to admit it. When faced with challenges in group work or relationships I am the type of person who would say “I’ll just do it! Get out of my way!” When in reality, I need to grow to be more willing to delegate and hold others responsible; I cannot do it all myself. But a second step of this challenge is that I can micro-manage when I delegate. So, in writing this, I know I need to adapt and grow to be an effective leader who listens, delegates, and is able to set smart, attainable, measurable and achievable