I was inspired tonight by all of the lively discussion and excellent examples/thoughts you generated on challenges and process models in educational leadership. Please post reflections for week four here. Thanks, Dr. Andy
Hi all, Let me talk about why I choose C9 and also C8. For the first one, C9 I think it's the most important. In my opinion, our World does not lack of achievement, but lack of good ethics and good moral. We can meet the success even we were good or bad if we do not pay attention with a good morale to be the essential of life. Our world will became race track finally. Everyone just want to be a winner and they can do whatever just let them to be a winner over the others without ethical care. For C8, about mentoring, I think it's important because a teacher must be a good model for students. His students are his products. In view of administrator the teacher mentoring is so much necessary and very important I think. I also have experience that we can't let the staffs figure by themselves that they are very important and they have much effect to their students' life. Is C7 important? Yes it is. But I think Q.C. teacher is more important. In application to use 1. Power to change is on us. Our organization will change or not, it depends on us as a leader what we are doing. 2. Even we have a good plan or good strategy, it may have nothing happen if the leader has not commitment to do. 3. Some strategy may work in some organization, but may doesn't work in other places. 4. To choose the best tool or implement that match with the organization, we need to work on researches, find out what the real problem is, and so on.
Tom's view of a world without ethical leadership: "Our world will became race track finally. Everyone just want to be a winner and they can do whatever just let them to be a winner over the others without ethical care."
An ideal vision is to create the future we want. Reality is to solve the problems around you every day. So, from the aspect of an imaged school leader, I choose C-3(Conflict Resolution) and C-7 as my Top 2 challenges. The basic task for any school is to focus on student learning. That’s the meaning of “school”. In order to keep the focus, school leaders should have abilities to solve conflict and problems to assure schools normal development. Whether “Keep head and Heart Balance” or “Monitoring Teachers”, ten challenges serve to the core-task of schools to focus on student learning. Ten challenges just look like our ten fingers. None of them is better than others. Only ten fingers work together, you can do things. In the past five years, I visited some universities in different areas. From my observation, good qualified universities are endowed the characters to collaborate traditional creams and recent changes. Qualified universities leaders are those people who know to keep balance among relationship, internal and external environment, strength and weakness. Theories can give you the framework and the imagination space, but practice can let you understand what you do not believe. Please combine theories and your practice.
This afternoon while I was covering for a G4 spelling class, two students (one girl, one boy) started to chase each other after the test. I stopped them, and ask them why were they running and chasing in the classroom. The girl said that the boy took her pencil, and the boy said no, it was another Japanese student in the class gave it to him. I asked more children to see if they were telling the truth. The Japanese student told me that he found the pencil on the floor, and he decided to give it to the boy. I took the chance to discuss about occupy other’s belonging forcibly. I explained to the students that when you found things unattended on the ground doesn’t mean that you can keep them to yourself, that’s an indirect way of stealing. We also talked about what kind of people we want to be in the future, sneaky, tricky or honest and sincere. They all said being honest and sincere is what they want to be. I chose C2, C7 & C8 last night because I think doing the right thing is like breathing air to me! Therefore, it’s not that challenging to me, because I believe that as a leader if I demonstrate good deeds, my teachers would follow me to do the right things. Here are the reasons for me to choose C2, C7 & C8 and applications--- 1. Instructional Leadership: Walk through the talk! Nothing would happen if you don’t put it in action. 2. Focus on Student Learning: This should be the number one priority. We should try to bring up every student’s potential for his/her growth in academic, ethical, and social areas. 3. Mentoring Teachers: A leader can’t work alone, without excellent teachers at the frontline, it won’t produce great “products”, and won’t reach great “outcomes”!
Jerome said…………For me, Ethically Based Leadership is the most important challenge because it impacts all of the other challenges. Ethically Based Leadership is simply saying your leadership style is grounded in a complex set of maturely developed characteristics that you draw comfort, motivation, inspiration, and self-regulation from. There are many challenges leaders face and how they attend to the particular needs of each tasks expresses your leadership qualities. Who am I and how I want to be perceived is often different from who am I and how I am received! We have moral standards that guides our decisions (we are supposed to), behavior that exemplifies our skills and habits and visions that leads us to our North Star. Our interpretations of the world are defined by our actions and justified in our decision-making. Ethical standards are the foundation of leadership and leadership potential. Being able to effectively work with others is key to getting things done in any organization. Through wisdom, integrity, and responsibility, we can be the best ethical leaders. How can one apply ethical standards daily? 1. An Authentic leader, draws from his intrinsic beliefs and personal experiences to make decisions and lead the organization. 2. Decisions based ethical dilemmas such as, what’s best for student learning should be the overarching benchmark in all communications. 3. Modeling exemplary behavior means you don’t have to speak to be heard. A leader has to be the standard that employees determine their action off of. How engaged your employees are will be first demonstrated by how you engage with your employees.
There's an old saying which I think illustrates What Jerome is saying quite well, It is cited by Covey in his work but I am not sure if it originates with him....I think it goes way back....here it is....
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you are saying"
We could also subsitute the wrods, "who you are" with "How you act" Or even, "What you do"
In respond to the question four, I think educational leadership is an important issue related to a great understanding of ethical concepts which applied to real-life tensions. Furthermore, educational leadership challenges are current paradigms of leadership training and development a new approach using formation processes based on leadership capabilities in order to get job done. However all the challenges mentioned in Dr. Andy dissertation, which are emotional balance leading to accountability, knowledge and application of pedagogy, interaction and empathy to avoid conflict, being present, dealing with ambiguity, positive collective belief, student learning, mentoring teachers, ethical leadership and differentiation, are considered important current issues for developing leadership in different educational environments. Many studies have been conducted regarding educational leadership challenges in Asia, they found that in Asia a lack of leadership development signals the present of a culture of low or no accountability and moreover it means leaders are spending time doing their job, not perfecting their roles. The role of a leader is coaching, mentoring, guiding, developing, recognizing, challenging, and teaching. In cultures where leadership development is not valued, leaders fall back on just doing their jobs and ignore their roles. Here's where the notion of "doing my job" becomes so seductive: "If I keep doing my job, I will stay busy, thus creating the shape of effectiveness." If these symptoms are present in any educational environment and ones consider improving the leadership development efforts; practicing the role, not just the job is an important step across a variety of settings to improve educational leadership. I think this process model of developing educational leadership is very effective if these leaders do evaluation and reflection of their roles continuously. Fatima
-continued- The similarity however, is that both of the leadership and the ethical standards are something you always easy to understand but hardly to do in the real practice. And if you are good luck enough have a great instructional leader with strong ethical sense that do has the influential power on people, then the next step you take is to realize the leader's strategic vision, in education, it is C7, always focus on students learning. As in Dr.Andy's dissertation described: regardless of the types of problems, upsets or difficulties that may exist in any given educational situation, it is imperative that every decision and action undertaken by the administrator ultimately relate back to maximizing the opportunities and potential for student growth academically, ethically and socially. When instructional and ethical leadership provide a leader with glorious vision, shaping the school culture and structure with his strategic management approaches, he may needs to go through all Cs. The leader with his influential team always work together to solve the conflicts C-3 between students, teachers, parents and other stakeholders. They also have to act like a filter to dealing with ambiguity C-5 to keep working on the same goal.Keep optimistic as cheer leaders C-6 in the down time, giving mentor and care to teachers C-8, so in the situation of C-10, everyone in the school shall have the same understanding and supporting to minimize the differentiations to make it a better inclusive place for all. As I mentioned in the classroom, a school leader can't deal with any of above challenges without C-4, Presence. Because the school leader is not only a role model, culture maintainer and management specialist, he is also a listener, a service guy and a doctor. He listened to staff's complaints, communicates to solve the problems, proactively check the health status of the whole organization, it is all need his participation.
When one person so honored and trusted by giving huge authority for everyone working in the school, he should realize the same amount of responsibility he carries too. Being there all the time, mentally or physically, whether in difficulties or in happiness, he/she connects everyone together and try to achieve the same goal with maximum satisfaction for others. That's may be the reason we call our school leader the "president" too.
I believe that all the organization around the world whether non-profit organization or business industries, a leader maintains a high ethic standard with a charismatic leadership is the key to the success of the whole organization. C-2 the instructional leadership and C-9 Ethically based leadership should always come hand in hand, although they talk different quality of a leader should have, these two actually have something in common as well. In my opinion, one's ability to be a leader is inborn and possibly be developed and nurtured by the environment and experience. But if the chosen one doesn't have any traits of being a leader, no matter how much effort or education given is just waste in vain. That explained why we only have a few of among us can finally develop to be a great leader with their natural talents, hard working persistence and at the end of the day, they just grab the right opportunity and step up to be a leader while the rest of us remained being the followers. In the other hand, for people's ethic development, it relies more on the situation everyone face, which the environment, contingent incidents, people around you would all affect a people's decision to a good guy or bad guy at one moment or for a life time. I have to say in this globalized world with economy recession, political unsuitability and complexity, maintain a personal value in a high and ethic standard is really something difficult to follow and persist. Individual success can be achieved when one people develop his own effective way to lead and influence other people, but the society around can't be easily achieved such goal by one leader, it needs millions of the rest of ordinary people, who might just being followers to be ethic enough to pull us together and stand steady in the confrontation of ethic challenges we face everyday, in all conditions. That make a big difference from just to develop someone's leading skills by giving training and opportunities. Leader's ethic standards is something that difficult to be gained by a training program and it heavily depends on the social factors and everyday practice, addition to this, even someone with very high ethical standards could fall for a small incident or a twist in mind.
I have posted my reflection already after Jerome and bloger yesterday morning, but when I open the blog tonight, I found that my reflection has lost. There might be some error!- Jackie
Not sure what caused that, perhaps your gmail account accidentally was closed , that may have caused it. Anyway here is your reflection as sent to me. Nice work! Andy
Jackie said... The challenges of faith formation in contexts of rapid change are addressed school leaders and teachers to face the reality world. I think principals today must serve as leaders for student learning. They must know academic content and pedagogical techniques, work with teachers to strengthen skills, collect, analyze and use data in ways that fuel excellence. They must rally students, teachers, parents, local health and family service agencies, youth development groups, local businesses and other community residents and partners around the common goal of raising student performance. And they must have the leadership skills and knowledge to exercise the autonomy and authority as well. To make the thought clearer, I combined C1, C2, C7 and C8 together as the following: 1) Providing Focused Instructional Leadership: Instructional leadership has dominated discussions of the principal’s role, creating almost unanimous agreement that student learning should be at the center of what principals do. However, researchers and practitioners have yet to settle on an explicit definition of the term. 2) Teaching learning process should put the students as subject not as an object. Students must be active in learning and they should not only learn about subject matters but also to learn how to learn. Teachers should play their new role in preparing students for an emerging knowledge-based and technology-driven economy. It is unrealistic to expect the low quality and less dedicated teachers to perform this new role. 3) A relevant curriculum, which addresses the need of students, community and work place, should be used in good quality education. In most of the countries it is considered that curriculum is overloaded and should be reformed to match what students learn at school and what the community or world of work demands is also an issue to address. In facing the challenges, being as an education people we must engross the statement said above to be more effective and benefit student-learning outcome as well as collaborative as a whole. - Jackie November 30, 2010 1:20 PM
To back up shira and bonnie’s ideas around the importance of the 9th challenge of leaders in chapter four of dissertaiton, I’d like to add if we get to believe that schools are for students learning and put this at the core of our values, we can expect to get the most desirable outcome from students’ performance. Since the whole strategic planning system of organization from mission to objective and goals are determined by ideal vision of administrator, it essential to put high priority on Students Learning and always keeping it at as part of vision.
We have to bear in mind that all students can learn but the way they process the given information, respond to sensory information (according to their learning style) and their progress toward understanding is varied.
Keeping the viewpoint that school is to maximize learning by putting the focus on strengths and capabilities – and not weaknesses- of learners, a versatile curriculum that include series of instructional strategies, can be developed that requires teachers to understand the diversity of learning needs of students according to their different attributes, learning styles, background and culture- and implement teaching methods and styles that meet each learner’s need in the best way possible. In short, at a vibrant learning environment individuals are valued for what they are and are equally given opportunity to fully cultivate their potential growth.
Thank you very much Ajarn Dr.Andy to repost my reflection and I do agree with what Kris said. It might be too big volume of uploading or my gmail account problem. Jackie
Hi all,
ReplyDeleteLet me talk about why I choose C9 and also C8.
For the first one, C9 I think it's the most important. In my opinion, our World does not lack of achievement, but lack of good ethics and good moral. We can meet the success even we were good or bad if we do not pay attention with a good morale to be the essential of life. Our world will became race track finally. Everyone just want to be a winner and they can do whatever just let them to be a winner over the others without ethical care. For C8, about mentoring, I think it's important because a teacher must be a good model for students. His students are his products. In view of administrator the teacher mentoring is so much necessary and very important I think. I also have experience that we can't let the staffs figure by themselves that they are very important and they have much effect to their students' life. Is C7 important? Yes it is. But I think Q.C. teacher is more important.
In application to use
1. Power to change is on us. Our organization will change or not, it depends on us as a leader what we are doing.
2. Even we have a good plan or good strategy, it may have nothing happen if the leader has not commitment to do.
3. Some strategy may work in some organization, but may doesn't work in other places.
4. To choose the best tool or implement that match with the organization, we need to work on researches, find out what the real problem is, and so on.
Tom's view of a world without ethical leadership: "Our world will became race track finally. Everyone just want to be a winner and they can do whatever just let them to be a winner over the others without ethical care."
ReplyDeleteYES! Could not agree more, great post Tom!
An ideal vision is to create the future we want. Reality is to solve the problems around you every day. So, from the aspect of an imaged school leader, I choose C-3(Conflict Resolution) and C-7 as my Top 2 challenges.
ReplyDeleteThe basic task for any school is to focus on student learning. That’s the meaning of “school”. In order to keep the focus, school leaders should have abilities to solve conflict and problems to assure schools normal development. Whether “Keep head and Heart Balance” or “Monitoring Teachers”, ten challenges serve to the core-task of schools to focus on student learning. Ten challenges just look like our ten fingers. None of them is better than others. Only ten fingers work together, you can do things.
In the past five years, I visited some universities in different areas. From my observation, good qualified universities are endowed the characters to collaborate traditional creams and recent changes. Qualified universities leaders are those people who know to keep balance among relationship, internal and external environment, strength and weakness.
Theories can give you the framework and the imagination space, but practice can let you understand what you do not believe. Please combine theories and your practice.
This afternoon while I was covering for a G4 spelling class, two students (one girl, one boy) started to chase each other after the test. I stopped them, and ask them why were they running and chasing in the classroom. The girl said that the boy took her pencil, and the boy said no, it was another Japanese student in the class gave it to him. I asked more children to see if they were telling the truth. The Japanese student told me that he found the pencil on the floor, and he decided to give it to the boy. I took the chance to discuss about occupy other’s belonging forcibly. I explained to the students that when you found things unattended on the ground doesn’t mean that you can keep them to yourself, that’s an indirect way of stealing. We also talked about what kind of people we want to be in the future, sneaky, tricky or honest and sincere. They all said being honest and sincere is what they want to be. I chose C2, C7 & C8 last night because I think doing the right thing is like breathing air to me! Therefore, it’s not that challenging to me, because I believe that as a leader if I demonstrate good deeds, my teachers would follow me to do the right things.
ReplyDeleteHere are the reasons for me to choose C2, C7 & C8 and applications---
1. Instructional Leadership: Walk through the talk! Nothing would happen if you don’t put it in action.
2. Focus on Student Learning: This should be the number one priority. We should try to bring up every student’s potential for his/her growth in academic, ethical, and social areas.
3. Mentoring Teachers: A leader can’t work alone, without excellent teachers at the frontline, it won’t produce great “products”, and won’t reach great “outcomes”!
Have a great weekend,
Shira
Very insightful Shira!
ReplyDeleteJerome said…………For me, Ethically Based Leadership is the most important challenge because it impacts all of the other challenges. Ethically Based Leadership is simply saying your leadership style is grounded in a complex set of maturely developed characteristics that you draw comfort, motivation, inspiration, and self-regulation from. There are many challenges leaders face and how they attend to the particular needs of each tasks expresses your leadership qualities. Who am I and how I want to be perceived is often different from who am I and how I am received! We have moral standards that guides our decisions (we are supposed to), behavior that exemplifies our skills and habits and visions that leads us to our North Star. Our interpretations of the world are defined by our actions and justified in our decision-making. Ethical standards are the foundation of leadership and leadership potential. Being able to effectively work with others is key to getting things done in any organization. Through wisdom, integrity, and responsibility, we can be the best ethical leaders. How can one apply ethical standards daily?
ReplyDelete1. An Authentic leader, draws from his intrinsic beliefs and personal experiences to make decisions and lead the organization.
2. Decisions based ethical dilemmas such as, what’s best for student learning should be the overarching benchmark in all communications.
3. Modeling exemplary behavior means you don’t have to speak to be heard. A leader has to be the standard that employees determine their action off of. How engaged your employees are will be first demonstrated by how you engage with your employees.
There's an old saying which I think illustrates What Jerome is saying quite well, It is cited by Covey in his work but I am not sure if it originates with him....I think it goes way back....here it is....
ReplyDelete"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you are saying"
We could also subsitute the wrods, "who you are" with "How you act" Or even, "What you do"
In respond to the question four, I think educational leadership is an important issue related to a great understanding of ethical concepts which applied to real-life tensions. Furthermore, educational leadership challenges are current paradigms of leadership training and development a new approach using formation processes based on leadership capabilities in order to get job done. However all the challenges mentioned in Dr. Andy dissertation, which are emotional balance leading to accountability, knowledge and application of pedagogy, interaction and empathy to avoid conflict, being present, dealing with ambiguity, positive collective belief, student learning, mentoring teachers, ethical leadership and differentiation, are considered important current issues for developing leadership in different educational environments.
ReplyDeleteMany studies have been conducted regarding educational leadership challenges in Asia, they found that in Asia a lack of leadership development signals the present of a culture of low or no accountability and moreover it means leaders are spending time doing their job, not perfecting their roles. The role of a leader is coaching, mentoring, guiding, developing, recognizing, challenging, and teaching. In cultures where leadership development is not valued, leaders fall back on just doing their jobs and ignore their roles. Here's where the notion of "doing my job" becomes so seductive: "If I keep doing my job, I will stay busy, thus creating the shape of effectiveness."
If these symptoms are present in any educational environment and ones consider improving the leadership development efforts; practicing the role, not just the job is an important step across a variety of settings to improve educational leadership.
I think this process model of developing educational leadership is very effective if these leaders do evaluation and reflection of their roles continuously.
Fatima
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ReplyDeleteThe similarity however, is that both of the leadership and the ethical standards are something you always easy to understand but hardly to do in the real practice.
And if you are good luck enough have a great instructional leader with strong ethical sense that do has the influential power on people, then the next step you take is to realize the leader's strategic vision, in education, it is C7, always focus on students learning.
As in Dr.Andy's dissertation described: regardless of the types of problems, upsets or difficulties that may exist in any given educational situation, it is imperative that every decision and action undertaken by the administrator ultimately relate back to maximizing the opportunities and potential for student growth academically, ethically and socially.
When instructional and ethical leadership provide a leader with glorious vision, shaping the school culture and structure with his strategic management approaches, he may needs to go through all Cs. The leader with his influential team always work together to solve the conflicts C-3 between students, teachers, parents and other stakeholders. They also have to act like a filter to dealing with ambiguity C-5 to keep working on the same goal.Keep optimistic as cheer leaders C-6 in the down time, giving mentor and care to teachers C-8, so in the situation of C-10, everyone in the school shall have the same understanding and supporting to minimize the differentiations to make it a better inclusive place for all.
As I mentioned in the classroom, a school leader can't deal with any of above challenges without C-4, Presence. Because the school leader is not only a role model, culture maintainer and management specialist, he is also a listener, a service guy and a doctor. He listened to staff's complaints, communicates to solve the problems, proactively check the health status of the whole organization, it is all need his participation.
When one person so honored and trusted by giving huge authority for everyone working in the school, he should realize the same amount of responsibility he carries too. Being there all the time, mentally or physically, whether in difficulties or in happiness, he/she connects everyone together and try to achieve the same goal with maximum satisfaction for others. That's may be the reason we call our school leader the "president" too.
-Kris
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ReplyDeleteI believe that all the organization around the world whether non-profit organization or business industries, a leader maintains a high ethic standard with a charismatic leadership is the key to the success of the whole organization.
ReplyDeleteC-2 the instructional leadership and C-9 Ethically based leadership should always come hand in hand, although they talk different quality of a leader should have, these two actually have something in common as well.
In my opinion, one's ability to be a leader is inborn and possibly be developed and nurtured by the environment and experience. But if the chosen one doesn't have any traits of being a leader, no matter how much effort or education given is just waste in vain. That explained why we only have a few of among us can finally develop to be a great leader with their natural talents, hard working persistence and at the end of the day, they just grab the right opportunity and step up to be a leader while the rest of us remained being the followers.
In the other hand, for people's ethic development, it relies more on the situation everyone face, which the environment, contingent incidents, people around you would all affect a people's decision to a good guy or bad guy at one moment or for a life time. I have to say in this globalized world with economy recession, political unsuitability and complexity, maintain a personal value in a high and ethic standard is really something difficult to follow and persist.
Individual success can be achieved when one people develop his own effective way to lead and influence other people, but the society around can't be easily achieved such goal by one leader, it needs millions of the rest of ordinary people, who might just being followers to be ethic enough to pull us together and stand steady in the confrontation of ethic challenges we face everyday, in all conditions.
That make a big difference from just to develop someone's leading skills by giving training and opportunities. Leader's ethic standards is something that difficult to be gained by a training program and it heavily depends on the social factors and everyday practice, addition to this, even someone with very high ethical standards could fall for a small incident or a twist in mind.
I have posted my reflection already after Jerome and bloger yesterday morning, but when I open the blog tonight, I found that my reflection has lost. There might be some error!- Jackie
ReplyDeleteNot sure what caused that, perhaps your gmail account accidentally was closed , that may have caused it. Anyway here is your reflection as sent to me. Nice work! Andy
ReplyDeleteJackie said...
The challenges of faith formation in contexts of rapid change are addressed school leaders and teachers to face the reality world. I think principals today must serve as leaders for student learning. They must know academic content and pedagogical techniques, work with teachers to strengthen skills, collect, analyze and use data in ways that fuel excellence. They must rally students, teachers, parents, local health and family service agencies, youth development groups, local businesses and other community residents and partners around the common goal of raising student performance. And they must have the leadership skills and knowledge to exercise the autonomy and authority as well. To make the thought clearer, I combined C1, C2, C7 and C8 together as the following:
1) Providing Focused Instructional Leadership: Instructional leadership has dominated discussions of the principal’s role, creating almost unanimous agreement that student learning should be at the center of what principals do. However, researchers and practitioners have yet to settle on an explicit definition of the term.
2) Teaching learning process should put the students as subject not as an object. Students must be active in learning and they should not only learn about subject matters but also to learn how to learn. Teachers should play their new role in preparing students for an emerging knowledge-based and technology-driven economy. It is unrealistic to expect the low quality and less dedicated teachers to perform this new role.
3) A relevant curriculum, which addresses the need of students, community and work place, should be used in good quality education. In most of the countries it is considered that curriculum is overloaded and should be reformed to match what students learn at school and what the community or world of work demands is also an issue to address.
In facing the challenges, being as an education people we must engross the statement said above to be more effective and benefit student-learning outcome as well as collaborative as a whole. - Jackie
November 30, 2010 1:20 PM
me too Jacky, my reflection is in wrong order = =!
ReplyDeleteIt might be cause of the too big volume of uploading for one time. You can separate it into two parts.
the same thing happend to my reflection too, i posted it last night, but it's not up there now!
ReplyDeleteTo back up shira and bonnie’s ideas around the importance of the 9th challenge of leaders in chapter four of dissertaiton, I’d like to add if we get to believe that schools are for students learning and put this at the core of our values, we can expect to get the most desirable outcome from students’ performance. Since the whole strategic planning system of organization from mission to objective and goals are determined by ideal vision of administrator, it essential to put high priority on Students Learning and always keeping it at as part of vision.
ReplyDeleteWe have to bear in mind that all students can learn but the way they process the given information, respond to sensory information (according to their learning style) and their progress toward understanding is varied.
Keeping the viewpoint that school is to maximize learning by putting the focus on strengths and capabilities – and not weaknesses- of learners, a versatile curriculum that include series of instructional strategies, can be developed that requires teachers to understand the diversity of learning needs of students according to their different attributes, learning styles, background and culture- and implement teaching methods and styles that meet each learner’s need in the best way possible. In short, at a vibrant learning environment individuals are valued for what they are and are equally given opportunity to fully cultivate their potential growth.
Sarah makes a compelling point: focusing on strengths is a critical element of success in any endeaveur. Andy
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Ajarn Dr.Andy to repost my reflection and I do agree with what Kris said. It might be too big volume of uploading or my gmail account problem. Jackie
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