Educational administrators are bombarded by requests for innovation at all levels. Programs to upgrade math,
science, and social science education, state accountability plans, new approaches to administration, and other
ideas are initiated by teachers, administrators, inter-est groups, reformers, and state regulators. In a school
district, the superintendent is the key leader; in an individual school, the principal is the key leader. In the
Carville City School District, Superintendent Porter has responsibility for 11schools—eight elementary, two
junior high, and one high school. After attending a management summer course, Porter sent the following email to the principal of each school: ‘Please request that teachers in your school develop a set of performance
objectives for each class they teach. A consultant will be providing instructions for writing the performance
objectives during the August 10 in-service day. The deadline for submit-ting the performance objectives to my
office is September 21.’’Mr. Weigand, principal of Ears worth Elementary School, forwarded Porter’s e-mail to
his teachers with the following message: ‘Please see the forwarded e-mail from Superintendent Porter. As he
explains, you will need to write performance objectives for each course you teach. These are due one month
from today. This afternoon, during the in-service meeting, you will receive training on how to write these
performance objectives. ’After receiving this e-mail, several teachers at the elementary school responded with
a flurry of hastily written e-mail responses. One well-respected and talented teacher wrote the following e-mail,
accidentally sending it to Mr. Weigand instead of her colleagues: ‘This is nonsense! I should be spending my
time focused on the lesson plan for the new advanced English class the board of education approved. Porter is
clueless and 286PART 4THE LEADER AS A RELATIONSHIP BUILDER has no idea the demands we are
facing in the classroom. We never even hear from him until he wants us to complete some empty exercise. I
am going to start looking for a school district that values my time!’’Mr… Weigand was stunned by this e-mail,
wondering if he was close to losing a valuable teacher who was admired by her peers and others in the school
system. He knew this e-mail had been written in haste and that this teacher would be embarrassed to know
that he had received it. He was concerned that other teachers may have reacted in similar ways to his-mail. He
also wondered how to respond to the angry e-mail and how to improve morale at the start of a new school
year.
Please answer the below question based on the above passage ?
- Identify the mistakes that the teacher made when composing and sending her e-mail message
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