Understanding Drucker’s paradigm shifts teaches us the importance of developing relationships needed to effectively manage people. The changes in societies have a trickledown effect to education environments and establishments (schools) because it is our responsibility to prepare students for the world they will live in, not ours. As a leader of an educational institution we can apply Drucker’s ideas in the following ways: 1.High ethical standards need to be identified and held to a high accountability that should be consistent to legal standards. Leaders need to be role models whose integrity must escalate with each promotion! 2.Regular reviews of management structures must be evaluate and through change management committees organizational effectiveness can be improved. 3.Ensuring management is proceeding in an outward direction by: a)Empowering teachers to choose their professional development needs b)Enabling middle leaders multiple opportunities to perform various administrative tasks. c)To ensure intrinsic rewards are a norm for motivation to support teachers instead of extrinsic rewards. Jerome
Drucker pointed out that there is more than one way to manage schools and we can learn from the business approach to make the organization more effective. He described 7 assumptions about organizations that are out-dated. Among these, is the assumption that there is only one way to manage. As a future leader, my management/leadership style will include: 1. Using more than one way to manage kindergarten school for example; transformational leadership style and situation leadership style so it depends on situation where I have to face. 2. As my teachers teach Thai language I would encourage them to use many styles of teaching to meet student needs such as I taught them with role play method, learning center and story line method and so on. 3. As a professional, I would encourage my teachers as well as myself to keep on studying the world around and learn from the knowledgeable person, go to the training program and read a good book to enrich our experience to apply to my work and life. Aey
Although Drucker was from the “business management” field, but what he had noticed was applicable for other professions, such as education. I had worked in many other different fields, only when I became a kindergarten director; I started to think about “managing” people. I remembered at first, I really felt on the side, which favored in controlling my people, I wanted every teacher in the kindergarten followed my way of teaching. It’s took me some time to realize that I should try to focus on their strengths instead of the weakness. After last night’s class, now I have some new thoughts that I can apply. 1. The multiple organizational structures---in a school, if everybody, really everybody, goes to the director/headmaster/principal for every single thing, could you imaging the director’s life? It would be like going on a battle with people everyday. That’s where the multiple organizational structures should be taking the place. If a school form a manage protocol, then people can go to their designated leader, who might have more time for discussing or handling small issues, and get things done there. Right now, I am the head of foreign language department at my school. So if my teachers need to buy some teaching materials, I have the authority to approve for them. There are other departments, about 5 of them, each department has its own function, but yet we work toward our school vision---building leadership. 2. Teachers fall into the category of “knowledge workers”---professionals. So treating them like our partners shows great appreciation from us. I’ve been working at four different schools; the administrators I encountered were very different. My first school was a pre-school ran by a no-profit association in Taipei (inside Taipei American School). Teachers and administrators were like partners, we worked together to plan for daily activities, prepare teaching material, organizing programs, helping each other grow in our profession. However, not every stakeholder/board member/administrator of school believes in this practice. At my school right now, we are trying to help teachers build up stronger reliability, and the director is trying to show that she does appreciate everyone’s hard working. I just thought that it would be nice if her approach would include more of the non-teaching staff, because they play a very important role in the school community as well. However, I also am very aware of the traditional culture in Thailand, it’s a hierarchy society. There are things that are hard to change, but it’s not impossible! 3. Too many teachers think that they only need to do “a good job” in their class, other things don’t really matter. So they tend to stay in the same field, even the same grade year after year. This is very dangerous, especially with this rapid changing world. I would think that if I run a school, I would encourage my teachers go for different workshop, not necessary only related to their teaching profession. I really appreciated my school letting me go on a play therapy workshop and an art therapy workshop this year. These are something that I don’t really have chance to apply currently, but it helped me broaden my perspectives of how people handling their emotional issues. So I would like to encourage my teachers to erase the technological boundaries, to reach out and seek for more information in order to expand their views. Hopefully, we’ll be able to handle the fast changing world. Thanks for reading it, it’s kind of long. Shira
From the article, I get more understanding about management that is used in different ways, not only appiy to business organizations. Concurrently, in today's global environment, social forms and principles are changed unprecedentedly. Assumptions that were valid yesterday can became invalid and, indeed totally misleading in no time at all. In Drucher's Management's New Paradigms, he explores the development of different historical theories from the true-exampled aspects. As a teacher I can apply Dr Andy and Drucker's method and theories in the following ways: 1.Dr Andy was just like an encellent performer who can control the whole class from the beginning to the end. In his class, he used different teaching methods to catch the followers' sight by passion words, active behavior,eye contact and body language. Even after the class, he didn't leave the classroom quickly and he stayed there to talk with different students with some questions, which gave the strong signal that he was concerned about the course and the students. I believe that, an excellent teacher can encourage students to focus on courses not by words, but his personal concern. 2.Back in the early days of the industrial revolution when the textile industry first developed out od what hsd been cottage industries, that the textile industry had its own unique technology. These technologies did not much overlap. But now, the new basic resouce, information, differs radically from all other commodities in that in does not stand under the scarcity theorem. As a teacher, how to learn from other useful educational theories and systems and how to connect them with my own educational background, become the challenge for me. 3.The center of a morden society, economy and community is not technology. It is not information. It is not productivity. The center of modern society is the managed institution. The mananged institution is society's way of getting things done. In fact ,the core meaning of management is to deal with people relationship. In China, relationship among people is the critical factor because we prefer "group work" than "individual effort". "A boss"-someone who can make the final decision and who can then rxpect to be obeyed. At the same time, multiple organizational structures should be treated seriously. Each member can be measured and judged against clear and specific goals and all excutives will have the toolbox full of organizations, some highly specialized. They will need to be able to use each one properly and to think in terms of mixed structures rather than only pure structures. Thanks for your attention. Bonnie
To back up Bonnie's points of view, I have to say that part of Chinese culture is that it puts the relationship between people at the first priority, then the common logics is second, the law/regulation is the last. So when we work in a Chinese society, especially China, you have to be very good at connecting with the right person in order to make your project work. And the hierarchy and power distance are very obvious in China, so it’s not easy to talk about implementing shared leadership or other management approaches. Shira
Besides my reflection on Drucker's article from last week related to the leadership succession, I would strongly reemphasize Fatima's point on completing the list by the"culture" factor in management.
For centuries, various management principles emerged and disappeared, whatever the theory and study behind them, the culture factor is always a main influential and invisible hand that make the management issue with more complexity and diversity.
Here I don't want to explore too much on the Interculture factors in global education as we all studied last semester with Dr. Surapee, but just give some work related examples I have encountered in my working and life experience which shows the real essential to master a cultural harmony in a multinational environment to maintain an effective leadership :
1. Informal meeting always much more effective than formal meeting
2. Carefully shifting roles when approaching colleagues or customers from different cultural background by acquiring the basic knowledge of other cultures
3. Keep team diversified for creativity but set up the standard for decision making
4. Giving company culture orientation and multicultural orientation as one of the continuous professional development program
5. Increase the culture sensitivity, suspend the judgement and avoid the sensitive topic like what I had with Jerome. hahaha, though it was fun and even gained more perspectives through such constructive debate. So bring it on.
Hi everyone, According to the documents that concern about our teaching and management into the schools;I have learned a lot from Dr.Peter F. Drucker due to new paradigms as follows: 1.I have a project for my school for teacher training in how to understanding the Child development especially the emotion,Cognitive, Physical,personality and society. 2.Encourage the team building into the school as team role play,such as working in a group dynamic without my supervision.Then, we will do the same thing but I will supervised them into the sheet that I send it to team of Asokevit Onnuj School. 3.Try harder to do the paradigms shift for both Kindergarten and Primary to extend my training to both of the mentioned team. 4.To encourage the student to be the good results of my projects to be good citizens for our future.
According to to pic the end of command and control. This topic make me think a lot. It sound like a dream that may not come true. But since Drucker has given many of cases study, how can I do not believe his comment. Besides, as many of us have mentioned about how organizations run their enterprise on nowadays. They can't stand alone without any of partnership. The more we want to explore the World, the more we need alliance for run well in our businesses. The alliance is unnecessary to be a huge company or well know as us or better than us. But it should be the organization that can support the competency each other. From this article, I have learned and be able to apply to use in my life that is 1. A teacher and his students can learn and share experience each other as a big company and a small company. Even a teacher certainly has wider view of knowledge and education, but it has something that a teacher can learn from their student always. 2. the best of style of working in the present time is working as a team, the best effective of pedagogy is cooperative learning. 3. Abolish for being the enemy each other, establish partnership should be a new direction of schools in Thailand.
We had an enriching class with Dr. Andy on last Thursday. The class began with the introduction about management historical contexts and pointed out some keys aspects of Drucker article, and then he asked all class’s member to break in to four groups to discussion on what he had question from Drucker article from one station to another. I really felt enjoy the class very much and I hope you all too. After we had finished the group discussion, I realized that Drucker;Management’s New Paradigms is challenging, although his seven deriving list of key change assumptions seemed to be out of dated all, but the single coin have always 2 sides. We can apply and explore his idea in both sides, positive and negative while make a better change to fit the world changing. Below are my three applications: 1. Management is not just only for profit making business. Management are applicable to all of kind of organization differ only on the application rather than principle and how the vision and mission of the set of the organization is being realized, example manager of the certain company spending his/her time on his/her employee problems not knowing that his/her employee problems are almost always the same meaning, the day to day policy of the company is the same. 2. Any theories can be applicable to any the organizations if the leader is flexible and adopt some other styles or theories, merging traditionally and the latest theories in management. The new assumption on Managements should be included social discipline and responsibility while open eyes to face the world changing. Management concern and management responsibility are everything that affects the performance of the institution and its results- whether inside or outside, whether under the institution’s control or totally beyond it. 3. As school leader not know how to listen and weight thing down to avoid doubt and these agreements. He/She must know how to communicate, listen and observe to the things around him or her. He or she must be flexible and visionary. As a leader of the educational institution, Changed the school can possibly realized while by; 1) Providing CPD for teachers to improve their knowledge skills 2) Organizing and giving incentives and awards for teachers in order to motivate and do more effective in their career 3) Provide scholarship grants to poor and deserving students 4) Development a school facilities and equipments to support the teacher instructional and student learning 5) Provide technology development program up to dated for all teachers and staff 6) Give more concern about the community people interaction
Excellent reflections with a lot of great ideas. I appreciate bringing in your personal observations and experiences into the discussion as well! Dr. Andy
Management’s new paradigms Peter Drucker believed in the authority on organizational management, understanding the task, continuous innovation and focus on quality in order for managers to be more effective, more efficient, and more in-tune with their companies or businesses, their schedules, their employees, and ultimately, with themselves. His challenge was to systematically treat management by considering knowledge work productivity based on less structure with more decisions and delegation of authority. He continued with the concept of management as to be about organizing people to work together to achieve more and to make individual weakened to be irrelevant. His theory of management and its main objectives all deeply depend on the culture and economic efficiency of a country as 21st century management is defined partially as having ability to adapt and preserve in various cultural environment. As Drucker quoted “managers draw on all the knowledge and insights of the humanities and the social sciences – on psychology and philosophy, on economics and history, on ethics – as well as on the physical sciences. But they have to focus this knowledge on effectiveness and results. Management will increasingly be the discipline and the practice through which the ‘humanities’ will again acquire recognition, impact and relevance.” This knowledge work productivity theory is applicable in all fields as long as considering work as being holistic and being changing all the time. I understand in order to receive desirable results always motivate the employees with extrinsic and intrinsic appreciation and rewards according to organizational culture environment of the workplace.So my advice to aspiring political leaders is not only to understand their people’s experience and knowledge but to appreciate the richness and blessing of their nations as assets not liabilities. Fatima
Sorry for my late reflection. But, as Dr. Andy mentioned on the orientation day, I have to give an excuse that " I don't have enough time for reading". My problem is that I didn't finish reading week two reading.Thus, my discussion was not as good as it should have been. However, thanks to Dr.Andy, because of his class arrangement, I had learnt something to some extent. I am interested in paradigm shift through the view of teachers not the view the administrators or principals. I face the problems everyday that the students have the distractions more than ever. I teach maths to the Thai high school level who are preparing for universities. Thus, the curriculum is based on the requirement of the universities and which is also the requirement of ministry of education. Most of the students can not catch up my teaching level. Their calculating skills are also not high as mathematics is the minor subject in their primary and secondary. I believe that because of the paradigm shift, we, both teachers and students, suffer the pressure of dutiful learning. As Dr. Songob mentioned last night, education becomes a punishment. for applications, before applying to the students or school or the society, I need to apply to myself that: 1: I must read more and discuss more in order to solve this problem because I am really sorry to see the students being forced by the word "must learn". 2: What do I need to do to motivate the students in my small world to learn maths. I learnt and read a lot about the factors of motivation. But I think I left them in the classroom and never be able to practice in real world due to the classroom size and short period of time. We need to cover all the curriculum mentioned in the paper though. 3: I like "educational transformation". It seems it is what on my track. I know that my reflection is not the same as the others but I hope it is not a waste of your time reading mine. Up to now, I am not able to reflect the same as you guys yet. I have to digest myself and the educational environment which I mean our classroom I enter in. Thanks see u Valentine
Understanding Drucker’s paradigm shifts teaches us the importance of developing relationships needed to effectively manage people. The changes in societies have a trickledown effect to education environments and establishments (schools) because it is our responsibility to prepare students for the world they will live in, not ours. As a leader of an educational institution we can apply Drucker’s ideas in the following ways:
ReplyDelete1.High ethical standards need to be identified and held to a high accountability that should be consistent to legal standards. Leaders need to be role models whose integrity must escalate with each promotion!
2.Regular reviews of management structures must be evaluate and through change management committees organizational effectiveness can be improved.
3.Ensuring management is proceeding in an outward direction by:
a)Empowering teachers to choose their professional development needs
b)Enabling middle leaders multiple opportunities to perform various administrative tasks.
c)To ensure intrinsic rewards are a norm for motivation to support teachers instead of extrinsic rewards.
Jerome
Drucker pointed out that there is more than one way to manage schools and we can learn from the business approach to make the organization more effective. He described 7 assumptions about organizations that are out-dated. Among these, is the assumption that there is only one way to manage. As a future leader, my management/leadership style will include:
ReplyDelete1. Using more than one way to manage kindergarten school for example; transformational leadership style and situation leadership style so it depends on situation where I have to face.
2. As my teachers teach Thai language I would encourage them to use many styles of teaching to meet student needs such as I taught them with role play method, learning center and story line method and so on.
3. As a professional, I would encourage my teachers as well as myself to keep on studying the world around and learn from the knowledgeable person, go to the training program and read a good book to enrich our experience to apply to my work and life.
Aey
Although Drucker was from the “business management” field, but what he had noticed was applicable for other professions, such as education. I had worked in many other different fields, only when I became a kindergarten director; I started to think about “managing” people. I remembered at first, I really felt on the side, which favored in controlling my people, I wanted every teacher in the kindergarten followed my way of teaching. It’s took me some time to realize that I should try to focus on their strengths instead of the weakness. After last night’s class, now I have some new thoughts that I can apply.
ReplyDelete1. The multiple organizational structures---in a school, if everybody, really everybody, goes to the director/headmaster/principal for every single thing, could you imaging the director’s life? It would be like going on a battle with people everyday. That’s where the multiple organizational structures should be taking the place. If a school form a manage protocol, then people can go to their designated leader, who might have more time for discussing or handling small issues, and get things done there. Right now, I am the head of foreign language department at my school. So if my teachers need to buy some teaching materials, I have the authority to approve for them. There are other departments, about 5 of them, each department has its own function, but yet we work toward our school vision---building leadership.
2. Teachers fall into the category of “knowledge workers”---professionals. So treating them like our partners shows great appreciation from us. I’ve been working at four different schools; the administrators I encountered were very different. My first school was a pre-school ran by a no-profit association in Taipei (inside Taipei American School). Teachers and administrators were like partners, we worked together to plan for daily activities, prepare teaching material, organizing programs, helping each other grow in our profession. However, not every stakeholder/board member/administrator of school believes in this practice. At my school right now, we are trying to help teachers build up stronger reliability, and the director is trying to show that she does appreciate everyone’s hard working. I just thought that it would be nice if her approach would include more of the non-teaching staff, because they play a very important role in the school community as well. However, I also am very aware of the traditional culture in Thailand, it’s a hierarchy society. There are things that are hard to change, but it’s not impossible!
3. Too many teachers think that they only need to do “a good job” in their class, other things don’t really matter. So they tend to stay in the same field, even the same grade year after year. This is very dangerous, especially with this rapid changing world. I would think that if I run a school, I would encourage my teachers go for different workshop, not necessary only related to their teaching profession. I really appreciated my school letting me go on a play therapy workshop and an art therapy workshop this year. These are something that I don’t really have chance to apply currently, but it helped me broaden my perspectives of how people handling their emotional issues. So I would like to encourage my teachers to erase the technological boundaries, to reach out and seek for more information in order to expand their views. Hopefully, we’ll be able to handle the fast changing world.
Thanks for reading it, it’s kind of long.
Shira
These are great! What about the rest of you? Come on, these three are getting lonely!
ReplyDeleteFrom the article, I get more understanding about management that is used in different ways, not only appiy to business organizations. Concurrently, in today's global environment, social forms and principles are changed unprecedentedly. Assumptions that were valid yesterday can became invalid and, indeed totally misleading in no time at all. In Drucher's Management's New Paradigms, he explores the development of different historical theories from the true-exampled aspects. As a teacher I can apply Dr Andy and Drucker's method and theories in the following ways:
ReplyDelete1.Dr Andy was just like an encellent performer who can control the whole class from the beginning to the end. In his class, he used different teaching methods to catch the followers' sight by passion words, active behavior,eye contact and body language. Even after the class, he didn't leave the classroom quickly and he stayed there to talk with different students with some questions, which gave the strong signal that he was concerned about the course and the students. I believe that, an excellent teacher can encourage students to focus on courses not by words, but his personal concern.
2.Back in the early days of the industrial revolution when the textile industry first developed out od what hsd been cottage industries, that the textile industry had its own unique technology. These technologies did not much overlap. But now, the new basic resouce, information, differs radically from all other commodities in that in does not stand under the scarcity theorem. As a teacher, how to learn from other useful educational theories and systems and how to connect them with my own educational background, become the challenge for me.
3.The center of a morden society, economy and community is not technology. It is not information. It is not productivity. The center of modern society is the managed institution. The mananged institution is society's way of getting things done. In fact ,the core meaning of management is to deal with people relationship. In China, relationship among people is the critical factor because we prefer "group work" than "individual effort". "A boss"-someone who can make the final decision and who can then rxpect to be obeyed. At the same time, multiple organizational structures should be treated seriously. Each member can be measured and judged against clear and specific goals and all excutives will have the toolbox full of organizations, some highly specialized. They will need to be able to use each one properly and to think in terms of mixed structures rather than only pure structures.
Thanks for your attention.
Bonnie
To back up Bonnie's points of view, I have to say that part of Chinese culture is that it puts the relationship between people at the first priority, then the common logics is second, the law/regulation is the last. So when we work in a Chinese society, especially China, you have to be very good at connecting with the right person in order to make your project work. And the hierarchy and power distance are very obvious in China, so it’s not easy to talk about implementing shared leadership or other management approaches. Shira
ReplyDeleteBesides my reflection on Drucker's article from last week related to the leadership succession, I would strongly reemphasize Fatima's point on completing the list by the"culture" factor in management.
ReplyDeleteFor centuries, various management principles emerged and disappeared, whatever the theory and study behind them, the culture factor is always a main influential and invisible hand that make the management issue with more complexity and diversity.
Here I don't want to explore too much on the Interculture factors in global education as we all studied last semester with Dr. Surapee, but just give some work related examples I have encountered in my working and life experience which shows the real essential to master a cultural harmony in a multinational environment to maintain an effective leadership :
1. Informal meeting always much more effective than formal meeting
2. Carefully shifting roles when approaching colleagues or customers from different cultural background by acquiring the basic knowledge of other cultures
3. Keep team diversified for creativity but set up the standard for decision making
4. Giving company culture orientation and multicultural orientation as one of the continuous professional development program
5. Increase the culture sensitivity, suspend the judgement and avoid the sensitive topic like what I had with Jerome. hahaha, though it was fun and even gained more perspectives through such constructive debate. So bring it on.
Kris
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteAccording to the documents that concern about our teaching and management into the schools;I have learned a lot from Dr.Peter F. Drucker due to new paradigms as follows:
1.I have a project for my school for teacher training in how to understanding the Child development especially the emotion,Cognitive,
Physical,personality and society.
2.Encourage the team building into the school as team role play,such as working in a group dynamic
without my supervision.Then, we will do the same thing but I will supervised them into the sheet that I send it to team of Asokevit Onnuj School.
3.Try harder to do the paradigms shift for both Kindergarten and Primary to extend my training to both of the mentioned team.
4.To encourage the student to be the good results of my projects to be good citizens for our future.
Patipan
According to to pic the end of command and control. This topic make me think a lot. It sound like a dream that may not come true. But since Drucker has given many of cases study, how can I do not believe his comment. Besides, as many of us have mentioned about how organizations run their enterprise on nowadays. They can't stand alone without any of partnership. The more we want to explore the World, the more we need alliance for run well in our businesses. The alliance is unnecessary to be a huge company or well know as us or better than us. But it should be the organization that can support the competency each other. From this article, I have learned and be able to apply to use in my life that is
ReplyDelete1. A teacher and his students can learn and share experience each other as a big company and a small company. Even a teacher certainly has wider view of knowledge and education, but it has something that a teacher can learn from their student always.
2. the best of style of working in the present time is working as a team, the best effective of pedagogy is cooperative learning.
3. Abolish for being the enemy each other, establish partnership should be a new direction of schools in Thailand.
We had an enriching class with Dr. Andy on last Thursday. The class began with the introduction about management historical contexts and pointed out some keys aspects of Drucker article, and then he asked all class’s member to break in to four groups to discussion on what he had question from Drucker article from one station to another. I really felt enjoy the class very much and I hope you all too. After we had finished the group discussion, I realized that Drucker;Management’s New Paradigms is challenging, although his seven deriving list of key change assumptions seemed to be out of dated all, but the single coin have always 2 sides. We can apply and explore his idea in both sides, positive and negative while make a better change to fit the world changing. Below are my three applications:
ReplyDelete1. Management is not just only for profit making business. Management are applicable to all of kind of organization differ only on the application rather than principle and how the vision and mission of the set of the organization is being realized, example manager of the certain company spending his/her time on his/her employee problems not knowing that his/her employee problems are almost always the same meaning, the day to day policy of the company is the same.
2. Any theories can be applicable to any the organizations if the leader is flexible and adopt some other styles or theories, merging traditionally and the latest theories in management. The new assumption on Managements should be included social discipline and responsibility while open eyes to face the world changing. Management concern and management responsibility are everything that affects the performance of the institution and its results- whether inside or outside, whether under the institution’s control or totally beyond it.
3. As school leader not know how to listen and weight thing down to avoid doubt and these agreements. He/She must know how to communicate, listen and observe to the things around him or her. He or she must be flexible and visionary. As a leader of the educational institution, Changed the school can possibly realized while by;
1) Providing CPD for teachers to improve their knowledge skills
2) Organizing and giving incentives and awards for teachers in order to motivate and do more effective in their career
3) Provide scholarship grants to poor and deserving students
4) Development a school facilities and equipments to support the teacher instructional and student learning
5) Provide technology development program up to dated for all teachers and staff
6) Give more concern about the community people interaction
Wish to have more an enriching class tomorrow.
Jackie
Excellent reflections with a lot of great ideas. I appreciate bringing in your personal observations and experiences into the discussion as well! Dr. Andy
ReplyDeleteManagement’s new paradigms
ReplyDeletePeter Drucker believed in the authority on organizational management, understanding the task, continuous innovation and focus on quality in order for managers to be more effective, more efficient, and more in-tune with their companies or businesses, their schedules, their employees, and ultimately, with themselves. His challenge was to systematically treat management by considering knowledge work productivity based on less structure with more decisions and delegation of authority. He continued with the concept of management as to be about organizing people to work together to achieve more and to make individual weakened to be irrelevant.
His theory of management and its main objectives all deeply depend on the culture and economic efficiency of a country as 21st century management is defined partially as having ability to adapt and preserve in various cultural environment. As Drucker quoted “managers draw on all the knowledge and insights of the humanities and the social sciences – on psychology and philosophy, on economics and history, on ethics – as well as on the physical sciences. But they have to focus this knowledge on effectiveness and results. Management will increasingly be the discipline and the practice through which the ‘humanities’ will again acquire recognition, impact and relevance.”
This knowledge work productivity theory is applicable in all fields as long as considering work as being holistic and being changing all the time. I understand in order to receive desirable results always motivate the employees with extrinsic and intrinsic appreciation and rewards according to organizational culture environment of the workplace.So my advice to aspiring political leaders is not only to understand their people’s experience and knowledge but to appreciate the richness and blessing of their nations as assets not liabilities.
Fatima
Sorry for my late reflection. But, as Dr. Andy mentioned on the orientation day, I have to give an excuse that " I don't have enough time for reading". My problem is that I didn't finish reading week two reading.Thus, my discussion was not as good as it should have been. However, thanks to Dr.Andy, because of his class arrangement, I had learnt something to some extent. I am interested in paradigm shift through the view of teachers not the view the administrators or principals. I face the problems everyday that the students have the distractions more than ever. I teach maths to the Thai high school level who are preparing for universities. Thus, the curriculum is based on the requirement of the universities and which is also the requirement of ministry of education. Most of the students can not catch up my teaching level. Their calculating skills are also not high as mathematics is the minor subject in their primary and secondary. I believe that because of the paradigm shift, we, both teachers and students, suffer the pressure of dutiful learning. As Dr. Songob mentioned last night, education becomes a punishment.
ReplyDeletefor applications, before applying to the students or school or the society, I need to apply to myself that:
1: I must read more and discuss more in order to solve this problem because I am really sorry to see the students being forced by the word "must learn".
2: What do I need to do to motivate the students in my small world to learn maths.
I learnt and read a lot about the factors of motivation. But I think I left them in the classroom and never be able to practice in real world due to the classroom size and short period of time. We need to cover all the curriculum mentioned in the paper though.
3: I like "educational transformation". It seems it is what on my track.
I know that my reflection is not the same as the others but I hope it is not a waste of your time reading mine. Up to now, I am not able to reflect the same as you guys yet. I have to digest myself and the educational environment which I mean our classroom I enter in.
Thanks
see u
Valentine