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By: Facilitator, Coach or Coordinator? | always learning

Facilitator, Coach or Coordinator? | always learning — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:54:33 +0000

[...] of us share similar responsibilities, yet we have a wide variety of titles. Just looking back at my own experience over the last ten years in three different schools, my job [...]

By: Voices of ADE Asia » Blog Archive » Creating My Job Description

Voices of ADE Asia » Blog Archive » Creating My Job Description — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:09:46 +0000

[...] a job description that said, “Go make tech work and build a program.” I was reading the Langwitches blog a couple of days ago and found the most perfect job description for what I do on a daily [...]

By: Lisa Thumann

Lisa Thumann — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:31:49 +0000

To do everything in numbers 1-7 with a smile, you deserve more than a virtual pat on the back. It takes dedication and enthusiasm.

Thank you for outlining your responsibilities so clearly. I will be referring to it for my next self-evaluation at work. I frequently have trouble defining what I do. I just respond that “they” tell me where to go and I go there.

Lisa

By: Langwitches

Langwitches — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:49:49 +0000

@Kim,
I followed your link back to your blog to re-read the post from last February ’08 about your job description. From there it took me to another post Putting the Puzzle Pieces together from November ’07 and then even further back to How do you spend your day?

Again, it is very clear that we are in the PROCESS of defining what our job really entails. Blog posts like yours over time are giving us a great way to track this process.

We need to define and focus on the desired outcome: learning, skills, communication, collaboration, information, etc., then be flexible to “teach, un-teach and re-teach” in whatever form the process throws at us.

By: Langwitches

Langwitches — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:31:38 +0000

@Amanda
I love your 13,000 steps description. I envision myself on a scooters many times when racing up and down the hallway at my school.
We need to consciously record ALL the things that we do in our jobs in order to create an accurate job description for ourselves, but also for our administration, colleagues and others who ask “So what is your job exactly entail?”

I just read Lisa Thurman’s post What did you do at work today? Very interesting and telling the way she describes one week in her professional life.

@Chad
I put a job description together about 3 years ago, on how I envisioned what a TIF’s job would be. I took that description to my administration and told them that I was going to pursue this career. I gave them all the research and background information that I could, why they could not afford NOT to have such a position at our school. I was lucky that they were open and visionary enough to create that position for me. Although there are more and more positions like ours out there now, we still need to convince most administrators of its necessity. Very hard to do in these economic times if the position does not exist yet.

By: Kim Cofino

Kim Cofino — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:43:33 +0000

I love your job description and graphic. I think many of us are grappling with the same issues you describe. For so many schools this job is new and no one really understands what to expect or how to move forward.

Having been in this kind of position (though with various titles) for the last 9 years, it seems that these growing pains exist every time I transition to a new school. This time around, having the title of 21st Century Literacy Specialist has definitely thrown new kinks into the works.

Taking the word “technology” out of the title completely has been both a positive and a negative – easier for me to ensure that my job doesn’t revolve around tools, but sometimes harder to explain what my job is, succinctly.

About eight months into the job, I took it upon myself to define my role, much as you’ve done here. I know it’s an old post, but now I’m curious to go back and see just how similar or differently we have described our positions…

By: Chad Lehman

Chad Lehman — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:44:43 +0000

I really like the job description. How did this position get created in your district? I’m hoping to have one created in my district for me. Do you have any advice?

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» Time to Reflect - Creating my Job Description SAS Digital Leaders — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:20:47 +0000

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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:16:10 +0000

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By: Some Tech Sense » Blog Archive » Time to Reflect - Creating my Job Description

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:51:50 +0000

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