Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Science Department Chair A teacher was given the responsibility of becoming Science Department Chair. The principal has challenged the teacher to help increase test scores in the area of science as they have been quite low in the past few years. After meeting with the teachers of the science department, the teacher realized that the morale is very low, and that many of the science teachers are teaching multiple subjects, in multiple grade levels, so are stretched very thin. What can the teacher do to raise the morale of the science department teachers, which in turn could improve test scores? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) One possible solution would be to see what is actually causing the low morale for the department. Is it lesson planning, student engagement, stress from leadership, or is it state testing issues. When a cause analysis has occurred begin to develop solutions to the problems that all team members can help with. One high-impact way to help with test scores could be to look at the assessments developed in each unit of study and re-creating them as a team. Also could look at dividing the work in content areas that are the same. Share the responsibility of the work load to create buy-in and that shared responsibility for the department.