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title: "The New Job Description"
date: 2007-06-11
url: https://learningischange.com/2007/06/11/the-new-job-description/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# The New Job Description

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The more that I think about doing something “different” in my classroom, the more that I feel that process should be transparent. Not just for my students and their parents, but also for my administrators. Principals, Assistant Principals, and even Super-Intendants should be aware that there is change happening in the classroom. They should also want that change to occur, meaning that they should actively support it. But the only way that this is going to happen is if we start advocating for it.

So, this podcast is all about how we should be writing our own job descriptions for the jobs that we dream about doing as teachers and presenting them to our administrators. I think that if we take this proactive approach, many will listen and start to think differently about what should be going on in the classroom.

Show Notes:

- 00:00:00: Intro to my busy life
- 00:00:35: Academy of Discovery Search for Funding
[Academy of Discovery](http://academyofdiscovery.wikispaces.com/)
- 00:01:01: The Bridge Project
[The Bridge Project Wiki](http://bridgeproject.wikispaces.com/)
- 00:02:20: My brief brush with the law while recording
[Littleton Police](http://www.littletongov.org/police/default.asp)
- 00:03:04: Education Transformation’s First Podcast
[Education Transformation Blog](http://educationtransformation.thepodcastnetwork.com/)
- 00:04:21: Maintaining My Blog
[Discourse about Discourse: The Blog](http://yongesonne.edublogs.org/)
- 00:05:18: Cresthill’s Language Arts Department
[The LA Cresthill Collaboration Wiki](http://lacresthillcollaboration.wikispaces.com/)
- 00:06:37: Collaboration at home or abroad [Paul Allison’s Blog](http://paulrallison.blogspot.com/)

- 00:09:14: Teacher 2.0 Job Description
[My Blog Post](http://yongesonne.edublogs.org/2006/12/10/teacher-20/)
- 00:11:56: Teacher Advocates
- 00:13:31: Creating Change Where I Am
- 00:15:48: Transparency at the teacher level
- 00:16:52: School 2.0 Duties
- 00:18:30: Static vs. Dynamic Teaching Jobs
[Paul’s Metablog](http://eduspaces.net/paula/weblog/)
- 00:20:28: Conclusion to Creating the New Definition
[Podcast Page](http://bhwilkoff.podomatic.com/)

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