WGU D016 Vocab(Complete)2023
- components to create a positive culture - Answer 1) promote trust
2) establish growth-oriented culture 3) commitment to diversity/equity/inclusion 4) cultivate emotional intelligence mission statement - Answer a short sentence that defines the school's goals, philosophies, and purpose; should guide decision making vision statement - Answer a description of what the school would like to achieve in the future; should be succinct, timely (relevant), and personal to the school core values - Answer the traits of how individuals should act and what to base their decisions on; ex. integrity, respect, responsible, trust, honesty conversational leadership - Answer when the leader intentionally uses conversation as a core process for creating collective intelligence, creating trust, transparency, and inclusion through 2-way communication trust - Answer when students/staff respect the decision of the principal and believe the principal has their best interests at heart; formed by benevolence, reliability, competence, honesty, and openness transparency - Answer open communication of how and why decisions are made; explains when/why information can or cannot be shared inclusion - Answer considering the gen ed classroom as the placement of 1st choice for all learners; requires the whole community and a rejection of the "that's not my job, those are not my students" mindset universal design - Answer when educators think about their students and their various learning styles BEFORE creating content and making instruction/assessment decisions rational system - Answer sees organizations as machines to achieve specific goals and focuses on efficiency/design through goals and formalization ex. Frederick Taylor's time and motion studies to figure out the most efficient movements on the assembly line goals - Answer specific parameters to be met that are clear and can allow an organization to work together towards a purpose should direct decision making, specify tasks, and guide allocation of resources formalization - Answer the development of rules to help standardize performance and promote rational decision-making based on facts exception principle - Answer supervisors must deal with the situations that arise that don't fit an existing rule or regulation 1 / 2
WGU D016 Vocab(Complete)2023 natural system - Answer sees organizations as social groups, uses a human- relations approach, and views creative tension as helping to build an organization ex. Mary Parker Follet said that individuals bring with them their own needs, beliefs, values, and motivations Hawthorne Studies - Answer social factors affect workers' productivity more than environmental factors like lighting or temperature open system - Answer views organizations as systems of groups of participants, and as NOT self-contained says schools are affected by internal relationships and structures as well as outside forces (like political pressures, laws, movements, and resources) that the schools try to stabilize and integrate social system - Answer says schools interact with the external environment and community stakeholders to meet common goals, and that schools have their own distinct cultures this type of system is an open system, peopled, goal-oriented, structural, normative, and sanction-bearing external feedback loop - Answer feedback loop that indirectly evaluates individuals by examining the behavior of a school based on community expectations, group norms, and organizational goals internal feedback loop - Answer feedback loop that directly evaluated individuals and informs how their behavior is viewed feedback comes from leadership but also from informal peer groups democratic leadership style - Answer leadership style in which the leader uses shared decision-making and views followers as equals group discussion is encouraged relies on 2-way communication that builds a trust-based culture that fosters creativity laissez-faire leadership style - Answer leadership style in which the leader delegates the powers of decision-making and planning to the followers but is still responsible for the outcomes creates a chaotic environment with little structure or concern for task completion/consistency collaborative leadership style - Answer a leadership style in which school leaders identify their strengths/weaknesses then collaborate with others who have strengths that fill the existing voids
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