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This document outlines the key components of school culture that teachers should understand, including rituals, traditions, ceremonies, artifacts, and the different levels that comprise a school's culture. It defines rituals as routines infused with deeper significance, traditions as significant recurring events, and ceremonies as culturally sanctioned spiritual events. Examples are provided for each. The document also discusses how a school's history, stories, artifacts, symbols, and physical environment influence culture. An assessment tool is presented for evaluating the different aspects of a school's culture. Overall, the document emphasizes that school culture, leadership, and relationships are important for teachers to comprehend in their work.

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This document outlines the key components of school culture that teachers should understand, including rituals, traditions, ceremonies, artifacts, and the different levels that comprise a school's culture. It defines rituals as routines infused with deeper significance, traditions as significant recurring events, and ceremonies as culturally sanctioned spiritual events. Examples are provided for each. The document also discusses how a school's history, stories, artifacts, symbols, and physical environment influence culture. An assessment tool is presented for evaluating the different aspects of a school's culture. Overall, the document emphasizes that school culture, leadership, and relationships are important for teachers to comprehend in their work.

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✓ Read course and unit objectives

✓ Read study guide prior to class attendance


✓ Read required learning resources; refer to unit
terminologies for jargons
✓ Proactively participate in classroom discussions
✓ Participate in weekly discussion board (Canvas)
✓ Answer and submit course unit tasks

At the end of this unit, the students are expected to:

Cognitive:
1. Define rituals, traditions and ceremonies.
2. Give examples of a school ritual, tradition and ceremony.
3. Compare and contrast some negative and positive cultures among the class as to whether
acceptable or unacceptable to all.
4. Explain ways on how SPED and preschool teachers help in social institutions.

Affective:
1. Reflect on one’s view on acceptable and unacceptable behaviors.
2. Value school tasks that help develop positive culture.
3. Appreciate the simple and small progress each of us make to conform to social behaviors.

Psychomotor: 1. Draw a symbolism of one of our University’s


traditions.
2. Participate through actively raising hands or showing hand votes for every reflective question
asked by the instructor.

THE SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY, SCHOOL CULTURE, AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
by Greg Tabios Pawilen, Rex Bookstore
SCHOOL RITUALS, TRADITION AND CEREMONIES WHAT
IS CULTURE?
WHAT IS SCHOOL CULTURE?

School Rituals, Traditions, and Ceremonies


There are set of rituals, traditions, and ceremonies in every school. These make a school unique from
other schools and make the school active and alive.
Joining rituals, celebrating traditions, and conducting ceremonies are great opportunities to convene as
one while integrating the vision, mission, values and goals of the school (Confeld, 2016).

SCHOOL RITUALS
•Peterson and Deal (2009) defined school rituals as produces or routines that are infused with deeper
significance.
Examples of SCHOOL RITUALS:•Greeting the teacher as students encounter them along the corridor
•Conducting flag ceremonies every morning •Observing the honoring gesture or “pagmamano” gesture.

SCHOOL TRADITIONS
School traditions are significant events that have special history and meaning and occur year in and
year out.
Examples of SCHOOL TRADITIONS:•Holding Recollection activities to the graduating batch
•Arranging school Camping
•Conducting freshman orientation
SCHOOL CEREMONIES
•School ceremonies are elaborated as culturally sanctioned events that provide a welcome spiritual
boost. These periodic communal events bind people to each other and shape unwritten cultural values.
Examples of SCHOOL CEREMONIES:•Holding the annual graduation rites
•Joining some local cultural activities •Celebrating Christmas and Christmas party

School History and Stories

A school’s mission, vision, values, rituals, traditions, and ceremonies are all elements of the culture that
are current and happening in the present. When discussing the history and stories of an organization,
the past is being represented (Confeld, 2016)
.Peterson and Deal (2009) shared that learning from past mistakes and successes is vital to creating
and maintaining a positive school culture. The retelling of the past can bring some necessary initiatives
into action, revive traditions and rituals that have shriveled away, and assist staff in surrendering
previous obsolete memories.

School Artifacts, Architecture, and Symbols


Finally, these three-school artifacts, architecture, and symbols are the key to create and sustain a
positive school culture. The artifacts and symbols are the tangible objects that represent the intangible
values and beliefs of the school (Peterson & Deal, 2009).
Moreover, these have variety of possibilities such as logos, mascots, banners, awards, flag, trophies,
and the like. In addition, even school administrators may serve as a walking symbols as he or she send
messages through words, actions, and body language.
Moreover, Confeld (2016) claimed that physical environment of the school building and the surrounding
area are essential in influencing how individuals think and feel about what is valued. It is not necessary
for schools to have an endless budget in order to maintain the physical environment. Displaying
student’s colorful artwork, awards and the values of the school can be enough to support individuals in
feeling optimistic and happy about being at school (Peterson & Deal, 2009).

Levels of School Culture


Starratt (1993) crafted a diagram that might help us imagine the school as being comprised of layers
resembling an onion. -The outer layer represents the operational level of the school.- Underneath that
layer is the organizational level of the school.-The next layer is made up of programs of the
school.Under program layer, is policy layer.-Beneath that layer, we find goals and purposes level.-
Nearing the center or core of the onion, we find the level of beliefs and assumptions. Here would be
what might be called the school’s tacit educational platform.- Confeld (2016) claimed that physical
environment of the school building and the surrounding area are essentials influencing how individuals
think and feel about what is valued.

Assessing School Culture


In assessing the culture within your school, you may use the instrument developed by Gruenert and
Valentine (2015). The Culture Typology Survey allows individual to recognize and rate the degree to
which he or she observes and engages in certain behaviors within the school environment. There
are twelve key aspects of school culture and six types of culture

The twelve key aspects are:1.Student Achievement 2.Collegial Awareness3.Shared Values4.Decision


Making5.Risk Taking6.Trust7.Openness8.Parent
Relations9.Leadership10.Communication11.Socialization12.Organizational History

School traditions are significant events that have special history and meaning
and occur year in and year out.
School culture, leadership and relationships matter, Teachers and Teaching
theory and practice Volume 24, 2018 - Issue 7;
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13540602.2018.1503855

Study Questions

1. How would you define Traditions, rituals and artifacts?


2. What new concepts have you learned from the topic?
3. How would you apply the positive values when you become a professional teacher
someday?
4. Why is it important for teachers to understand, explain and elaborate these issues?

THE SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY, SCHOOL CULTURE, AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
by Greg Tabios Pawilen, Rex Bookstore

School Culture and Its Relationship with Teacher Leadership, Hamidah Yusof, November
2016;
https://hrmars.com/papers_submitted/2396/School_Culture_and_Its_Relationship_with_Teach
er_Leadership.pdf

TCOM CU 3f.pdf

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