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Habitual Practices towards Achieving Effective Leadership By Bulingan M.S.H. Sirad, Ph.D. Acting Head MSU LNCAT
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill Each productive and successful community or group is an end-result of a good governance. True, in order for goals to be achieved, a good leader is a need. Leadership is a social influence that encourage people to be active in accomplishing a simple or comprehensive task, such as the ones being performed in an academe. In school, it takes a lot of courage and skills for teachers to influence other people, this time, her students and work fellows. In order to be influential, she must be an effective person at the first place. In order to be one, he must open his self in adopting efficiency skills. This is an important thing in exercising effective educational leadership. In Department of Education for example, to implement programs in ways that these are planned and organized, a person should stand up in order to lead the implementation. In a book authored by an American educator Steven R. Covey, he said that there are habits an aspiring leader should possess in order to be effective. The first one is to be proactive. It is the ability to control a situation through making things happen or preparing for possible future problems. Goal setting is one way to be proactive. This is a process of turning one’s vision or plan
into real action. It is focused on acquisition of knowledge and helps in organizing time and resources. Example is the DepEd’s OPLAN Balik Eskwela. This aims to address common concerns encountered during school opening and assure that students are properly enrolled and are able to attend school by the first day of classes. This is a DepEd administration’s step one in order to prevent long term problems that might pop up in the later time. Putting first things first is another habit that Covey put in his framework. Time management and priorities setting are keys to this habit. This could be done through doing the things that should be done first before the other. Sharpening the saw is also an important habit in order to be a highly effective leader. Covey argued that this could be done through evaluating the direction where a person himself is going and seeing to it that he is progressing. Through time, more skills will be adopted and habits will be embodied. In these, an educational leader will be more effective, as a leader, a teacher, a role model, a colleague and a person, at large. Leaders are created and molded. The school environment and the people in it are changing in terms of form and attitude. Thus, it is important for a leader to adapt skills that will improve his quality even the surroundings are changing. This is one effective avenue for a productive educational management.
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Improved teaching methods in 21st century By Sinab P. Mustari, Ed.D. Coordinator Research and Extension Services
The purpose of teaching is to mold ideas and understanding in the minds of an individual. Thus, it is important for an educator to determine the kind of teaching methods he should be using inside the classroom. In this way, his delivery of lessons would be interesting and further successful. There are various methods introduced by several scholars in the matter and manner of teaching. Two ideas that would be discussed below are just few. The traditional one is through lecturing. It is an established and considered as good method. In this method, a teacher should not only depend
and read the lessons on the book, but also interact with the students through calling each names to answer or to read lines. In other words, student participation is required along the teacher’s discussion. In articles online, it is stated that that there are good educational reasons in lecturing. In here, a teacher can discuss the entire coverage of a lesson and present all ideas relating to a course or topic. During lectures also, students could attain understanding for he is free to ask for clarifications. In addition, students could be motivated to pursue subject area because a teacher can give encouragement since there is a free interaction
The advantages of K to 12 By NANETTE L. SAMSON
IN an effort to strengthen the early childhood education system in the countr y, the Philippine government, through the Department of Education (DepED), has implemented the K to 12 basic education program. The government believes that education could be a central strategy to improve the lives of the Filipino people, contributing to the rise of the economy. Further, a change of the country’s educational system will enhance the learning of every Juan dela Cruz, which will be his tool to be successful. Under the new education system, a child, at the age of five, starts schooling. In school, the child
learns his or her lesson in his or her “mother tongue.” A study shows that a child who has better completion rate, which means that he or she is prepared for primary education, than those who did not undergo kindergarten. This is the main reason why the present administration stood firm in changing the old system and in implementing the K to 12 Basic Education System. K to 12 Basic Education System, over the years, is pushing for an improved and high quality of education for Filipino children. It is a 12-year program, believed to provide enough period to train students different knowledge and skills that are useful in achieving their future endeavors.
during classes. Brainstorming is another typical yet effective method of supplying lessons to the students. In here, students can have a confidence in presenting his own ideas for brainstorming would take place without evaluation of the ideas generated during the process. There are also a number techniques in which students can opt during the act. They can have discussions among the group, individually draw balloons and write words inside to show connections, freely write any words that they can think, group ideas and define what they know, what they want to know and what they could possibly learn at the end of the presentation ideas, or students could team up by pair and do discussions.
Lecturing and brainstorming are teaching techniques that fall under cooperative learning method. In this group of methods, student participation is a requirement. In another words, it is not just the teacher who talk all the time but as well, students could stand up and deliver what his mind has to tell. Further, cooperative learning method is a tool that develop confidence among the students and open up wide variety of ideas in their brains. It is an avenue to unlock hidden intelligence of the student. Thus, it is a learning method that could help students in learning critically and also helps the teacher to be successful in his delivery of lessons.
Prior to the implementation of the K to 12 basic education program, the Philippines is the last in Asia and one of the three countries worldwide, other than Angola and Djibouti, having 10-year pre-university cycle. This 10-year of education before having college, education is composed of six years and four years in elementary and secondary education, respectively. The K to 12, however, covers kindergarten plus 12 years of basic education, comprising six years in elementary education, four years of Junior High School, and two years of Senior High School. In other words, the learning will take place in a longer period of time compared to the old system. Thus, students will be able to get sufficient instructional time to do subject-related tasks which make students more
prepared and well- trained on a subject area. The basic purpose of the program is to address the necessity of decreasing the number of out-of-school youths and unemployed individuals. For one, K to 12 has Technical and Vocational component that introduces short-courses to students, which are useful in their employment after graduation. In K to 12 as well, a student normally graduates at age 18, equipped and old enough to enter the workforce. The success in the education sector is a big leap for the country with its main goal to be a country at par and as competitive as the others. K to 12 is one step. The next challenge is to make this implementation productive and goal-getter as what it is created for.