My Job in Noun and Verbs

I’ve been doing this job a few years now, but I’ve recently realized I have not been doing the right job. If I left tomorrow, I think people would miss me. And I think I have helped people, but I do not think I have helped people grow into better teachers.

What Should I be Doing

This year I’ve started looking at the evaluation document for my job. I took all the key words from the rubric (see an example below) and categorized them.

Together there were 31 criteria. Looking at the verbs from measures there were a few patterns. I would break my job into 4 categories.

• Coach (12 criteria)
• Advertise (8 criteria)
• Lead (8 criteria)
• Support (3 criteria)

Here are some of the nouns ¹ related to those criteria.

• Advertise: IT Applications, Standards, Best Practices, Resources, Law and Policy
• Coach On: Design Instruction, Best Practices, Training Effectiveness, Self-Improvement, Self-Assessment, Equality, Engagement, Professionalism, Learning Plans
• Lead About: Best Practices, Learning Goals, Resources and Schedules, Ongoing Learning, Staff Development, Digital Citizenship, Professionalism
• Support For: Use of Technology, Collaboration, Assessment Strategies.

How much time should I spend on each category of my job? The County says that 12 of the 31 criteria in my job relate to coaching, so I am going to say I should try to spend that fraction on my day on coaching activities.  In hours per week that is . . .

• Coach (16 Hours, 3 per day)
• Advertise (10 Hours, 2 per day)
• Lead (10 Hours, 2 per day)
• Support (4 Hours, 1 per day)

Footnotes

1. Not all of these are nouns. (Now I know how Alanis Morissette feels)