Leadership Assessment Results
In order to “level up” in my Teacher as Advocate badge I had to take the Leadership Compass Self-Assessment. The questions, and results, are split into four categories: North-Action, East-Vision, South-Empathy, West-Analytical. For me, before I even began checking the boxes next to the characteristics that applied to me, I knew that the Empathy one was going to be the one with the most results. I am very empathetic, and it is exhausting. I checked ten of the boxes under the empathy category. The rest of my results however, are interesting to me. I checked exactly seven boxes in the remaining three categories. I would like to think that this shows a bit of balance, but the fact that I scored higher in empathy probably undermines that.
What does this reveal about the kind of teacher leader/advocate that I will be? One driven highly by emotion. I know that I will put the well-being of my students above all, which is a double ended sword. This is where the other results come in. Because the rest of them were all the same score, and I know that even though I am a person that is driven by emotion, particularly the emotions of others, I am also highly analytical and practical. I think that I will need to balance out all four of them eventually, but I also do not want to undervalue the importance of emotion. Especially while advocating for change.
