Imagine you've been given the responsibility for managing a project that's behind schedule and experiencing substantial pressure to get the project back on track. What are your options.
Teacher cheating on standardized tests is a recurring theme in recent national headlines, ranging from teachers looking at tests in advance to develop study guides, to teachers and administrators erasing and correcting student answers after they have submitted tests. The media and the school communities have responded to these stories with shock and out-rage, often vilifying individual teachers and administrators.
In this piece, we examine the factors that contribute to teacher cheating and provide insights from a System Thinker’s perspective.
Integrating all the relevant elements in pursuit of a Systemic Strategy is an undertaking that will require diligent attention. You pursue an intent in a manner akin to meandering around in the dark without even a candle to guide your way. Along the way though you encounter aspects related to the situation that you are endeavoring to figure out how to deal with. And when you persist to actually evolving a Systemic Perspective, only then will there be light at the end of the tunnel, and you will have a sense of which direction the tracks should be laid to effect the alternative situation you are seeking.
There are two basic modes of organizational operation, one founded on the concept of management and one founded on the concept of leadership. These two modes represent very different systemic structures.
What seems to make sense at this point is to first identify the functional aspects of the tool set even though we're aware they cannot all come from one vendor.
The goal seeking structure endeavors to bring a balance between a current state and a desired state. This is one of the two foundation archetypes. The other being the growth structure. See also Archetypes.
Because our problem solving approaches in today's reality don't produce very good solutions we end up continually dealing with unintended consequences which make the original problem worse or create new problems to be dealt with.
This is the collected data for the pattern of behavior of the Rookies & Pros example of the Systemic Perspective Development Guide. Though the development guide no longer exists this is a good example of captured data to create a reference mode to compare a simulation to.
