1. The roles of a teacher!
SELF-LEADERSHIP!
Self-Leadership!
Self-Leadership can be defined as the capacity and
commitment to!
• take full responsibility for one’s own responses to
life and!
• create a life that is personally meaningful and
fruitful.!
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2. The ‘ideal’ student!
Who is that?!
Performance?!
P = C x C!
Competence:" Commitment:"
Knowledge, skills, Interest, motivation,
experience, ability, confidence,
information, …! enthusiasm, …!
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3. Blanchard & Hersey model!
Support - encourage, listen,
facilitate !
Direction - structure, control, supervise!
Look back…!
• Think of your "
Greatest Learning Experience!
– What made you what you are today - left you ‘wiser’
at the end…!
– A finite event/ experience…!
– Maybe something very personal…!
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4. At the start…!
• What were your emotions/ feelings at the start of
the experience?!
Start! End!
Every act of conscious learning
requires the willingness
to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.
That is why young children,
before they are aware of their own self-importance,
learn so easily;
and why older persons,
especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all
Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (1920- )
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5. First Role!
THE SHARK!
Blanchard & Hersey model!
Competence!
Support - encourage, listen,
Commitment!
2!
facilitate !
1!
Direction - structure, control, supervise!
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6. The anatomy of performance!
• Recall a project, task or assignment, when you
were working at your very best!
– At peak performance!
– Quality was just “flowing”, “happening”!
Conditions for Quality?!
• What were the conditions around that project, task or
assignment?!
– About yourself!
– About the task!
– About the others involved!
– About the environment!
– …..!
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7. The paradigm of work!
To make them
Work is painful,
work, they must
‘unnatural’!
be ‘pushed’
!
Methods - to
So, people will
command,
naturally try to
control, punish,
avoid it!
reward !
Meaningful work?!
• It is impossible to have a great life unless it’s a
meaningful life.#"
And it’s very difficult to have a meaningful life
without meaningful work."
– Jim Collins," Good to Great (2001)!
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8. A different paradigm of work!
Work is To get the best
potentially out, people must
enjoyable! look inward !
So, people work Method - find out"
at their best when what you"
they are in their thirst for!
‘own domain’!
Even a tree needs help…!
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9. Second Role!
SUPPORTING STICK!
Blanchard & Hersey model!
Competence!
Support - encourage, listen,
Commitment!
3! 2!
facilitate !
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Direction - structure, control, supervise!
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10. • In oneself lies the whole world and if you know
how to look and learn, then the door is there and
the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give
you either the key or the door to open, except
yourself…!
• J Krishnamurti!
The ‘horse principle’!
• You can take a horse to water, but you can’t make
it drink!
– Cannot force people to do anything!
• If a horse is thirsty, it will do whatever it takes to
find water to drink!
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11. Third Role!
WATERING HOLE!
Blanchard & Hersey model!
Competence!
Support - encourage, listen,
Commitment!
3! 2!
facilitate !
4! 1!
Direction - structure, control, supervise!
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12. The Fourth Role!
THE LIBERATOR!
The Liberator!
• Abraham Lincoln!
– Slaves!
• Mahatma Gandhi!
– A nation!
• A midwife!
– A life!
• Yama!
– A soul!
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13. Blanchard & Hersey model!
Competence!
Support - encourage, listen,
Commitment!
3! 2!
The
The Watering Supporting
Hole! Stick!
The" The Shark!
facilitate !
Liberator!
4! 1!
Direction - structure, control, supervise!
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14. Workshop notes
IIdeall student?
dea student?
! Street smart
! Willingness to learn, at all times
! Curious
! Open to experience
! Asks questions
! Confident
! Has 'leadership' qualities
! Disagrees with me, tells me how wrong I am
! Listens
! Humble
! High self-esteem
! Honest, genuine, sincere
Emotiions,, feelliings at the start of the Greatest Learniing
Emot ons fee ngs at the start of the Greatest Learn ng
Experiience
Exper ence
! fear
! blank
! intense concentration
! anger
! anxiety
! confused
! frustration
! uncertain
! hazy
! decisiveness
! excitement
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15. Condiitiions under whiich peoplle performed at theiir very
Cond t ons under wh ch peop e performed at the r very
best
best
! freedom to take decisions, empowered
! had support
! i was interested
! challenge
! just out of my zone of comfort
! optimism, 'can do'
! knew there was a reward
! clear goal to achieve
! pressure
o deadline
o lack of resources
! need to prove myself
! high energy
! high risk
! lack of fear
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