Self-disclosure Behavior

Discussion Board: Johari Window
Base your responses to each of the following discussion topics on the textbook readings as well as your own experiences as an educator.
The text discusses the Johari Window as a model of self-disclosure concerning supervisory behavior. The well-published Johari Window, named for its inventors, Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham, graphically illustrates the relationships between one’s known self and one’s unknown self. In regard to supervision, administrators are better able to understand effective leadership behaviors and teachers’ perceptions of their behaviors.
(1) What are two things other educators should know about you to work effectively with you?
(2) Label the left-hand column of a sheet of paper “Public Self” and the right-hand column “Private Self.” Think of personality or other characteristics that you intentionally disguise in your educational work setting.
• For each characteristic, describe in a few words the image you consciously present to others (left-hand column) and the real you that your public behavior conceals (right-hand column).
• As you begin to examine discrepancies between your public self and your private self, can you think of possible reasons for such discrepancies?
• Describe a possible situation in which conflicts between your blind self and public self might eventually lead to leadership problems.
(3) Share ways that you might use what you learned from this exercise (or the Johari Window itself) in your role as an instructional leader.