Showing posts with label SPS 5 - Leadership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SPS 5 - Leadership. Show all posts
Leadership Course - inital thoughts
A great day. Has left me with more questions and wonderings than I had before and a rather extensive list of books I want to read and so have ordered!
My first wondering is a question based on our BPP’s - what is my Why for leadership? - Why do I want to be a leader? Why will others follow me / be inspired by me?
My initial thoughts stem from the Leadership Challenge book and go back to my 3Ps presentation last year - having a clear Purpose, being able to inspire People and bringing my Passion.
This isn’t enough though as there is no clear Why - I need to make sure I have a clear Purpose, that there is Clarity around this purpose, that others will feel a sense of Belonging, and I need to develop Credibility.
Credibility is something I ponder over as I’m not as experienced a teacher as all others at SPS so why would they follow me - this is why I need a really clear why - to give others a reason to believe in me.
Thinking around my Purpose for leadership and words that come to mind;
Collaboration, progress, innovation, challenge the status-quo, new ideas, fresh thinking.
Auckland Adventure
Our Stonefields visit to Auckland was fantastic and it was good to see how other schools similarly built develop their culture, run their programme and the processes they have implemented to ensure student engagement, interest and their childrens' progression.
I was able to stay in Auckland and go to another 2 schools - also with flexible learning environments and spend a day in each, chatting to the mentors and children and picking their brains as to what they do / have tried that engages and motivates the children.
Needless to say my head was spinning. Add to that the Play Based Learning course on Saturday which was run by Longworth Education and i've come away with many wonderings.
My day spent synthesising what I learnt has been very valuable and below is a scan of my notes. As I am a bit of a muller-overer I'm sure that over the next set of holidays and in to the new term I will keep revisiting my notes and pulling out the information as and when I need it.
As Reid from HPS said;
I was able to stay in Auckland and go to another 2 schools - also with flexible learning environments and spend a day in each, chatting to the mentors and children and picking their brains as to what they do / have tried that engages and motivates the children.
Needless to say my head was spinning. Add to that the Play Based Learning course on Saturday which was run by Longworth Education and i've come away with many wonderings.
My day spent synthesising what I learnt has been very valuable and below is a scan of my notes. As I am a bit of a muller-overer I'm sure that over the next set of holidays and in to the new term I will keep revisiting my notes and pulling out the information as and when I need it.
As Reid from HPS said;
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