View Park Mission Statement Analysis

View Park Prep. High School is my former organization; their mission statement is to prepare all students to attend and compete at the top 100 colleges and universities in the nation. View Park falls short of their mission statement because most of their teachers lack certain learning and development needs. According to Learning Forward, "effective professional development enables educators to develop the knowledge and skills they need to address student's learning challenges. Professional development is not effective unless it causes teachers to improve their instruction or causes administrators to become better school leaders" (Mizell, 2010). The training need of View Park is teachers properly managing their classrooms. This is a big one for our teachers; most have set classroom rules and made their rooms attractive. They lack being enthusiastic about their lessons and holding their students

As stated in HR-Survey (2017) "Schedule a meeting with employees in a particular department or job classification. During the meeting, gather ideas from the employees about their needs and areas for professional development…Ask the employees to review the information gathered and determine which areas/needs are most important to receive training". Receiving teachers' opinions and ideas are critical in assessing the training needs because they are able to identify their needs or the needs of their colleagues they observed throughout the semester. It is important that teachers have a say in what they are being trained on in order to be effective; the topics must relate to what they feel like they need to improve on. Also, having teachers observe their colleagues will not only be beneficial but it will give teachers ideas on training topics for our Director and