Individual Leadership Development Plan Instructions

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http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/hrd/podcasts/video/2006/mp4/A9.ILDPinstruct.mp4

What about Departmentalization?

We've discussed departmentalization on the video conference today.  We know that departmentalization will:

• Provide the opportunity to intensify the focus on the need to meet standards, indicators and benchmarks of the curriculum.
• Allow teachers to specialize in a specific subject area and to maximize the use of resources/instructional time.
• Offer academic specialization and takes advantage of the best of teacher resources and facilitates instructional planning.
• Provide the opportunity for incoming teachers to narrow their focus to a specific content area.
• Provide the school with the opportunity to maximize the use of district and other resources.
• Provide instruction of a higher quality since teachers are focused on specific subject-matter discipline and can concentrate on preparing comprehensive lessons that are structured around making the needs of individual sub-groups. 

How do you feel?  What concerns do you have?  Please post!