They need to know and understand candidates full range of beliefs in order to add to the learning organization another voice for growth and change. Maryanne is a good teacher in the traditional sense, but she has fallen into a teaching routine that doesn t take into account the diversity of her students. When they don t, Maryanne blames the students for being unmotivated, the parents for not caring, or the TV for promoting antisocial behavior. Recently, however, she has begun to rethink her view of students. . . Phi Delta Kappan .
Principals are wise to rethink beliefs, for their power is immense in achieving student outcomes.
That is why screening into the profession those with empowering beliefs is undoubtedly easier than trying to change the beliefs of those already certified and sitting in classrooms in front of kids. Profile of Power. The most researched and efficient available interview is based on decades of research by Dr. Martin Haberman, Distinguished Professor of Education at The University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Haberman started in the 1950 s to discover what was the difference between teachers who quickly quit or failed to teach and those who were stars or who, by all accounts, taught every child to the maximum. The profiles were based on the clearly outstanding teachers each principal identified as unparalleled in effectiveness or absolutely a star.