Staffing The County Schools

 

A. Knowledge Needed to Create an Organization.

B. Rationale for the Organization.

C. The Jobs, and Tasks, to Be Performed in the School System.

D. Minimum Qualifications for a Superintendent.

E. Other Factors to be Considered in Selecting a Superintendent.

F. Minimum Qualifications for a Teacher.

G. Other Factors to be Considered in Selecting a Teacher.

A.
KNOWLEDGE NEEDED TO CREATE AN ORGANIZATION.

These are the fields of specialized knowledge that are used when establishing a competent organization:

* Job Classification and Pay

* Wage and Salary Analysis

* Time and Motion Studies

* Industrial Engineering

* Industrial Psychology

* Human Engineering

* Personnel Selection

* Managerial Accounting

* Financial Management

B.
RATIONALE FOR THE ORGANIZATION.

1.0.  An organization is created to produce products or services.

        The school system was created to educate people.

2.0. Tasks must be performed to produce the products/services.

       2.1. The tasks that must be performed are delineated.

       2.2. Similar tasks are grouped together, and are assigned to the same
              position/job.

3.0. A person is selected to perform the tasks of each position/job.

      3.1. Objective tests are selected. Each test is correlated with a task or tasks.

      3.2. The tests are administered to each applicant.

      3.3. The applicants are ranked according to their scores on the tests.

      3.4. The person who has a higher score on a test will perform the related task
             better than the person who has a lower score on that test.
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C.
THE JOBS, AND TASKS, TO BE PERFORMED IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.

1.0. The primary position/job in the school system.
      The position/job that is the essence of the school.

      1.1. Learning Specialist (teacher).
            1.1.1. Give Lectures on a particular subject
            1.1.2. Creates tests to determine how much knowledge each student has 
                      about the particular subject.
             1.1.3. Motivates students.
             1.1.4. Maintains discipline in the class room.
             1.1.5. Other related tasks.

2.0. Positions/jobs that support the primary position/job.
      2.1. People Evaluation Specialist.
            2.1.1. Trained in evaluating objective tests used to evaluate people.
            2.1.2. Administers tests to quantify the qualifications of a prospective
                     Learning Specialist.
            2.1.3. Administers tests to quantify the abilities of students.
            2.1.4. Other related tasks

       2.2. Finance Specialist.
             2.2.1. Accounts for money that is turned over to the school system.
             2.2.2. Accounts for money that is spent by the school system.
             2.2.3. Maintains school system payroll records.
             2.2.4. Other related tasks.

2.3. Building and Equipment Specialist

2.4. Learning Coordinator for one school (Principal).
      2.4.1. Hires one of the high scoring Learning Specialist after that the People
               Evaluation Specialist has determined which applicants are qualified for the
               position/job.
      2.4.2. Develops innovative new ways to positively reinforce learning behavior of
               students.
      2.4.3. Many other tasks that will be delineated.

2.5. Learning Coordinator for the county (superintendent).
      2.5.1. Recommends to the Board of Education who to hire for the position(s) of
               School Learning Coordinator.
      2.5.2. Maintains a Training Program to prepare several people to perform the tasks
               of Learning Coordinator for the county.
      2.5.3. Many other tasks that will be delineated.
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D.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE POSITION OF
LEARNING COORDINATOR FOR THE COUNTY.

1.0. General Mental Ability.

The Learning Coordinator for the County must have an IQ that ranks at least the 70th percentile on each of three prominent IQ tests. S/he must have the general mental ability that is at least as great as that possessed by the brightest 30 percent of the population. The Learning Coordinator for the county should be selected from the top scoring 3,000 people in a randomly selected sample of 10,000 people.

A degree from a university is not an indicator of General Mental Ability. Many people with fair-to-middling IQ's have university degrees.

2.0. Ability to Reason.

The Learning Coordinator for the County must have the ability to reason that ranks up to at least the 70th percentile on the Test of Critical Reasoning. S/he must have the ability to reason that is at least as great as that possessed by the brightest 30 percent of the population. The Learning Coordinator for the county should be selected from the top scoring 3,000 people in a randomly selected sample of 10,000 people.

A degree from a university is not an indicator of an ability to reason. Many people with fair-to-middling ability to reason have university degrees.

3.0. Master's Degree in the Science of Learning.

The Learning Coordinator for the County will be coordinating many Learning Specialists and other specialists who are working to educate the young citizens of the county. It is imperative that s/he know the science of learning. [What is the most effective schedule of reinforcement for shaping operants? What is programmed instructions?]

4.0. A College Degree with a major in one of the subjects that will be taught in the
       county schools.
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E.
FACTORS TO BE USED TO SELECT ONE PERSON,
FROM ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO MEET THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS,
TO BE THE LEARNING COORDINATOR FOR THE COUNTY

1.0. Remain on the job.

A person should be hired who will remain on the job for many years. The person hired should have responded favorably to many variables that are perceived to be related to this longevity.

1.1. Born in central Georgia.
1.2. His/her children have completed college.
1.3. Father and mother live in central Georgia.
1.4. Long tenure on last two jobs.
1.5. Other factors.

2.0. Former teacher.

2.1. What hindered the learning process of your students?
2.2. What aided the learning process of your students?
2.3. Other related information.

3.0. Author.

3.1. Was the publication related to education?
3.2. What ideas were developed in the publication?
3.3. Other related information.

4.0. Work behavior.

4.1. Comes to work on time.
4.2. Does not leave early.
4.3. Only scheduled days off.
4.4. Other related information.

5.0. Personal hygiene.

5.1. Body clean, hair clean, fingernails clean.
5.2. Clothes clean & neat.
5.3. Other related information.

6.0. No distracting behavior.

6.1. Tics.
6.2. Sniffing.
6.3. Sucking teeth.
6.4. Picking nose.
6.5. Other related information.

7.0. Verbalizes the value of, and the role of:

7.1. People Evaluation Specialist.
7.2. Tests Development Specialist.
7.3. Learning Specialist.
7.4. Accounting Specialist.
7.5. Building and Maintenance Specialist.

8.0.  Verbalizes the need to test students every year and inform them of their
        potential.

9.0. Citizens.

Verbalizes that the role of education is to make students productive members of the nation. They will have the knowledge necessary to produce products and services that other people will purchase, thereby each student will then have enough money to support themselves in whatever style they can afford.

Subjects that must be taught: accounting, physics, chemistry, electronics, finance, economics, nutrition, computer, logic, personnel selection, personal health care, history, English, public speaking, mathematics.

10.0. History.

Verbalizes that the role of education is to inculcate each student with the history of the founding of the United States. Areas of early American history: economic, military, government, religion.

11.0. Beliefs.

Verbalizes the role that the beliefs of the founders of the United States have in maintaining this country as a free and productive society.

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F.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE POSITION OF
LEARNING SPECIALIST

1.0. General Intelligence.

A Learning Specialist must have an IQ that ranks at least the 70th percentile on each of three prominent IQ tests. S/he must have the general mental ability that is at least as great as that possessed by the brightest 30 percent of the population. The Learning Coordinator for the county should be selected from the top scoring 3,000 people in a randomly selected sample of 10,000 people.

A degree from a university is not an indicator of General Mental Ability. Many people with fair-to-middling IQ's have university degrees.

2.0. Knowledge of the learning process.

Master's degree in learning from a Behavioral Science Graduate School.

3.0. Ability to Reason.

A Learning Specialist must have the ability to reason that ranks up to at least the 70th percentile on the Test of Critical Reasoning. S/he must have the ability to reason that is at least as great as that possessed by the brightest 30 percent of the population. A Learning Specialist should be selected from the top scoring 3,000 people in a randomly selected sample of 10,000 people.

A degree from a university is not an indicator of an ability to reason. Many people with fair-to-middling ability to reason have university degrees.

4.0. Knowledge of the subject matter.

College degree with a major in the subject that will be taught.

5.0. Knowledge of how to create tests.

The college course "Psychological Measurement and Test Development". top

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FACTORS TO BE USED TO SELECT ONE PERSON,
FROM ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO MEET THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS,
TO BE A LEARNING SPECIALIST

1.0. Work behavior

1.1. Comes to work on time.
1.2. Does not leave early.
1.3. Only scheduled days offs.
1.4. Other related information.

2.0. Personal hygiene

2.1. Body clean, hair clean, fingernails clean.
2.2. Clothes clean & neat.
2.3. Other related information.

3.0. No distracting behavior.

3.1. Tics.
3.2. Sniffing.
3.3. Sucking teeth.
3.4. Picking nose.
3.5. Other related information.

4.0. Personality. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).

5.0. Verbalizes the need to test students every year and inform them of their potential.

6.0. Citizen.

Verbalizes that the role of education is to make students productive members of the nation. They will have the knowledge necessary to produce products and services that other people will purchase, thereby the students will then have enough money to support themselves in whatever style they can afford.

Subjects that must be taught: accounting, physics, chemistry, electronics, finance, economics, nutrition, computer, logic, personnel selection, personal health care, history, English, public speaking, mathematics,

7.0. History.

Verbalizes that the role of education to inculcate each student with the history of the founding of the United States. Areas of early American history: economic, military, government, religion.

8.0. Beliefs.

Verbalizes the role that the beliefs of the founders of the United States have in maintaining this country as a free and productive society.

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