Briefly share any experiences you’ve had when you’ve had a part in introducing a new program or a new way to do things at your job site. Please share any triumphs or frustrations you’ve had trying to improve the system or when you’ve pioneered or piloted some outside the norm.
I was once commissioned to research secondary academies and their internship programs, create an internship program at my school and both run and implement it. It was a great process, implementation went smoother than I had anticipated and I learned a lot. The problem came when I began pitching my research and the benefits it would have for the students in my academy, I ran into opposition with a teacher who was in charge of our DCT program which is the vocational co-op program that students can participate in their Sr. year. In this program, students could leave school early to go to their jobs and receive course credit for working on the job. The teacher felt that it would over shadow her program and thus created minimum sabotage to keep my program from succeeding. When she found out that it would be in addition to her program and not to replace her program, she reluctantly had to accept that it would be a part of our curriculum.
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