FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT I
LC 2016
Gail Moskowitz, MSW, LCSW
The Journey
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a
single step! Lao Tzu
What I have learned about myself as
a learner?
• The best way to address this question is to
move through the progression of the program.
• The lessons built on one another.
EDLP 700: Effective Learning
Networks
• Change in status or fear of incompetence?
• The language of leadership is not unlike the
language of mental health.
• Lencioni provided this insight.
Lencioni
• Trust and vulnerability
• Solving problems at a deep level which
necessitates managing the conflict that comes
from real debate.
• Commitment to the entirety by being honest and
clear with ourselves and each other even when
we don’t completely “get our way.”
• Healthy relationships mean being accountable to
one another
• Resisting the impulse to judge success through a
narcissistic veil
What I have learned
about myself as a leader
from the various inventories
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My avoidance of sequence.
Spatial dyslexia
Intuitively I recognize my strengths
Recruit the right people-someone to provide
the details
• My life long initial anxiety about technology
• Take a deep breath and let someone explain
it to me and then practice it-Word Press!
What I have learned
about myself as a leader
from the various inventories
• Surprised to see the score on precision
• I love to learn and I hate the details but keep
a list and a follow it although sometimes in a
circular fashion.
• Confluence
• I have successfully run my own business
• Entrepreneur
• Radio
LCI
Use First
Use As Needed
Avoid
Sequence
15
Precision
24
Technical Reasoning
13
Confluence
26
MBTI
• ENTJ
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SC
TOL
IPATW
SCALSFP
My thoughts about the short hand
Leader Theory and Data EDLP 702
• Required reading the texts on varied theories of
leadership and analyzing the material through an
academic, professional and personal lens.
• The in-class assignments necessitated that the
students continuously group together and
then re-group so that we could all begin the work
of getting to know one another as members of a
larger cohort.
• It was useful to see how we personally
approached leadership and how the two
theories intersected.
Leader Theory and Data EDLP 702
• Drath
• Personal dominance-born leader, one who owns
the characteristics and qualities of leadership
• Interpersonal influence wants others to follow
them-one who vies for power
• Relational dialogue and the importance of
leading through collaboration
• Setting direction
• Garnering commitment
• Facing adaptive challenge
Leader Theory and Data EDLP 702
• Bolman & Deal categorized four different
frameworks from which leaders approach
their work/tasks and treat others.
• Political
• Human resource
• Symbolic
• Structural
My Surprise-702
• How I approach leadership and how the two
theories intersect.
• I believe I have relied on Personal dominanceothers naturally follow me. My most deeply held
values are in the realm of collaborative
relationships and therefore I want to lead from
Relational dialogue.
• I also recognize that I lead more from a political
frame than I would want to admit. This is mostly
true when I intuit a problem and want to head it
off at the pass.
• Example..
• Human worth always does trump…
“I know nothing.”
Sargent Schultz-Hogans Heroes
Or EDLP 703 Gail Moskowitz
• Nothing like a little bit of unknown statistical
analysis to strike fear into the heart of a right
brained social worker!!!!!
• What did I learn-a lot-but not so much about
leadership. We began the process of collecting,
analyzing and reporting data.
• The good news it that it isn’t really beyond the
scope of my capabilities and that in the end is a
good discovery. On more of those one step in
front of the other discoveries.
704 Frameworks for Decision-making: Legal
Perspectives
• Leaders must be facile with Policy
• The little bit of legal research turned out to be fun and
good to know how to access it.
• The text was dense and substantive. It was interesting to
see how policy is thought about, created, brought into law
or codes of behavior and then implemented.
• As they say it is never pretty to watch how laws and
sausages are made.
• There are so many nuances and unintended consequences.
• Everything from the finances of policy to the manpower it
takes to enact it have to be part of the picture.
• Clery Act example
EDLP 705 Frameworks
for Decision-making:
Ethical Perspectives
• “I often say that my job as a Clinical Social Worker in
the role of psychotherapist is to sit with my clients in
the depth of their pain without harsh judgment or the
mongering of shame and criticism so that they can
learn to sit with themselves and hear their problems
anew. I am successful at this in a seamless way. I
understand humanity and have long since given up the
idea that there is much new under the sun when it
comes to human behavior. Many of my clients act in
ways that society would not approve of.”
• Moskowitz (2014)
EDLP 705 Frameworks
for Decision-making:
Ethical Perspectives
• I have always believed that ethical decision
making is more intuitive that theoretical.
Philosophically I do not resonate to Kant’s notion
that there is always a clear right and wrong.
• I like the idea of looking at an ethical dilemma
from many angles. Laura Nash’s 12 questions
were comprehensive-in many ways it is the same
Socratic method from which I delve into my
client’s problems.
• The Ethical Journal highlighted how often we are
called upon to sort out these kinds of leadership
dilemmas. Example
715-Writing
• Oh is that what an APA style paper looks like!?
• So far the class in which I learned the most.
How I have changed what I do at work!
• I have significantly changed how I proscribe an
assignment, write the rubric and grade it. I am so
much better at guiding students through the process
of writing a paper.
• I feel less bad about the blind spots in my functioning
and more apt to enlist the skills of another person.
• I have added to my repertoire of assessment tools
with clients. Examples-how do they function in a
team/group/work or how do they process problems.
• In my role as a OVP of a 2 state region of a large
organization I have begun to note how often I solve
problems in a vacuum and have begun to encourage
more evaluative process. Lencioni example
My Goals for next year in the program
• Learn the fine tools of researching and writing a
literature review.
• Continue to become familiar and facile with the
components of collecting and analyzing data.
• Honing the skills for analyzing leadership in
systems.
• Deepening the relationships within our cohorts as
we move up to the capstone project.
• Thank you for your time!