2. MORAL PURPOSE • How do you make a difference in the lives of your students? • In the school community? • Can you think of specific examples? • What do you do to stay optimistic?
3. Personal vision-building • Why did you become a teacher in the first place? • What do you stand for as a teacher? • What do you want your legacy to be?
4. Commitment • How do you demonstrate your commitment to the profession? • What methods do you use to continually improve yourself? • How do you help your colleagues continually grow and improve themselves?
5. Capacity of inquiry • What strategies do you use to examine and improve your practice? • What do you know about action research? • Evidence-based practice? Critical friends? Peer mentoring? • Have you ever kept a personal journal in which you reflected on your practice?
6. High abstract thinking skills • How well are you able to view innovations from multiple perspectives? • How do you use what you observe to generate action plans? • To predict problems? To provide interventions and support?
7. Knowledge and mastery • What strategies do you use to keep up with the latest in educational and technological innovations? • What strategies do you use to know what is happening in your school community • How do you negotiate the politics of your school community? • Do the other members of your school community view you as knowledgeable and competent?
8. Collaboration • How committed are you to the idea of collaboration? • How comfortable are you sharing decisions? • What methods of communication do you use? • How flexible and open to new ideas are you?
9. Resiliency • What strategies do you use to effectively implement change? • How well do you use all available resources? • How adept are you at identifying the opportunities • rather than the negatives? • Where would you place yourself in terms of your comfort with risk-taking?
10. Interpersonal skills • Do members of your school community view you as caring? • Friendly? Trustworthy? Empathetic? • Do you project a positive and competent attitude?
11. Questions adapted from Hughes-Hassell, S. , V. Harada (2007). Librarian as Change Agent. In V. H. Harada, S. Hughes-Hassell (Ed.), School Reform and the School Library Media Specialist. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.
