Building a Sphere of Influence

Annabelle R.Sucgang

As a coordinator there may be many laudable aims. To have , in the eyes of your colleagues, the general classroom capabilities is vital in the first instance. It makes one part of the staff team and is the basis of securing respect. The classroom is also the launching pad for demonstrating the potential of IT. Usin a program like”Pictogram” to produce attractive displays of children’s survey work could be effective for example .

Your classroom can provide a vehicle for demonstrating the variety of opportunities, links across the curriculum and also the quality of work possible by young children . Interested other might then ask , ‘Could I do that with my class?’. This is the basis for productive working relationships with colleagues and, having used a variety of software , colleagues come to know that you are a useful source of information and advice. Remember that some of the most critical reviewers can be children and you may wish to give them opportunities to write reviews and make these available to colleagues. An important task may be to create a school software directory giving useful information.

A challenge for you will be to wean staff away from thinking of you as a technical problem solver. You maybe asked to do things like change printer cartridge .

On such occasions try to show your colleague how to do this so that in the future they can sort it out themselves. Other times it may be an actual fault with some aspect of the machinery. Dealing with such problems is one reason why your training is so important.

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The author is SST-III at Sto. Tomas High School Sasmuan