Saturday, March 24, 2012
Week 2 of 565
This week in class, and our homework, we covered several pertinent and interesting topics. In this week, we continued our readings of "How To Thrive as a Teacher Leader," along with studying data related to our respective school districts. I was able to apply knowledge that I learned from both of these topics to my personal life. As chapter three of our reading discussed how to use a passive voice in order to resolve conflict, I was reminded that removing emotion allows logic to prevail. Whereas I may not be a department head, I used techniques in this book with my students and my players. In regards to the WINSS data, it was pretty eye opening to be able to see all of the test results that factor into a school's strengths and deficiencies. I found it particularly interesting to be able to compare data with other conference schools.
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As a coach I am sure you can use data all the time. Comparing other teams and players, looking at win loss records, etc. It is easy to get lost in all of the numbers some times. That is how I felt about the WINNS data. Although I could see lots of individual numbers, it was harder to find the trends or patterns that indicate what is behind the individual statistics. Were there any big lessons that came out of your WINNS data?
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