Pada 3 – 5 Desimber 2008 yang lalu saya bersama rakan-rakan dari Institut Aminuddin Baki, Hj. Ramli, Sd. Abd Razak dan Dr Yusof terlibat dalam Program Training of Trainers Jabatan Pelajaran Johor di Tanjung Piai, Johor.
Di bawah adalah slaid powerpoint yang saya gunakan dalam sesi pertama program berkenaan.
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Tomorrow’s schools will need new forms of leadership. The old hierarchical models of leadership simply do not fit any longer. We need to develop new leaders at all levels of the system if we are serious about sustaining improvement and change.
This book is about developing young leaders in schools. It argues that we need to generate broad-based distributed leadership within, between and across schools to be certain of lasting change and improvement. Its main aims are to: provide a rationale for more widely distributed forms of leadership in schools offer new ways of thinking about distributed leadership practice provide practical illustrations and examples of distributed leadership give concrete ways of developing lateral leadership capacity within, between and across schools.
The book focuses on the “why, how” and “what” of distributed leadership by offering a practical insight into what it looks like in schools. It argues that our new system leaders are already in schools and that the main challenge is to develop them and maximise their collective capacity to make a difference. The main aims of the book are to:
provide a clear account of more widely distributed leadership.
offer evidence about its positive impact on organizational and individual learning.
give case-study exemplars and practical illustrations of how it works in practice.
The book also considers the leadership of networks and the new forms of partnership schools are engaged in and looks at how lateral capacity is built and the part distributed leadership plays in generating leadership capacity between schools. [Editorial Reviews]
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Pada 8 Oktober 2008 yang lalu saya telah dijemput oleh Persatuan Pengetua-pengetua Sekolah Menengah Sabah (PPSM) untuk berkongsi pengetahuan tentang perkembangan kajian penambahbaikan sekolah dalam Persidangan Pengurusan Pendidikan persatuan berkenaan. Persidangan tersebut dihadiri lebih daripada 200 orang pengetua dari seluruh Sabah di Hotel Promenade Kota Kinabalu.
Slideshare di atas merupakan isi kandungan penting pembentangan yang bertajuk Effective School Leadership: What school leaders should do? Antara perkara penting yang saya sampaikan ialah pada ketika ini sudah ada usaha-usaha konkrit menggabungkan pendekatan School Effectiveness dan School Improvement yang mereka dinamakan sebagai Effective School Improvement. Walau bagaimanapun sebagai pengamal pendidikan sudah pasti implikasi kajian tersebut yang perlu difikirkan. Oleh itu saya mencadangkan 10 prinsip amalan yang boleh dijadikan panduan oleh pemimpin sekolah dalam pengurusan organisasi mereka.
Dalam kesempatan itu juga dua orang rakan saya En Abdul Razak Manaf dan Pn. Rosnarizah Abdul Halim berkongsi maklumat tentang instrumen Kompetensi Pemimpin Sekolah (KOMPAS©) Institut Aminuddin Baki. Instrumen tersebut dapat membantu pemimpin sekolah merancang pembangunan profesional mereka.
Terima kasih kepada Presiden PPSM Sabah, En Sani Sahwi dan rakan-rakan pengetua dari Sabah yang menjemput saya dan sudi berkongsi pengetahuan dengan kami.
How can you, as a principal, create opportunities for teacher learning that really work to support teachers with different needs and preferences? There is wide agreement that the best teacher development is informal, diverse, democratic, school-based, and continuous.
Helping Teachers Learn will become an essential part of an educational leader’s thinking, learning, and language. Drago-Severson is an excellent writer who masterfully weaves theory into practice. Her attention to and explanation of Bob Kegan’s Constructive-Developmental theory lends clarity, as well as insight into helping adults learn and grow in their professional lives.
As she states in her book, “Growth is an ingenious mix of supports and challenges.” Drago-Severson provides leaders with tools to create various supports and challenges in environments that can and should foster growth. I found that her four pillars, and the new model for learning-oriented school leadership were particularly useful in crafting a faculty professional development plan.
Concepts covered in Helping Teachers Learn include:
- A new model of learning-oriented leadership that can be tailored to particular settings or individuals
- Adult learning principles that inform teacher growth and development, and why they are essential to effective teacher development programs
- The Four Pillars: teaming, providing leadership roles, engaging in collegial inquiry, and mentoring
- Real-world examples of principals sharing leadership, building community, and managing change
Enhance your professional development model to better support teacher growth and development, as well as your own self-development as a principal. - [Customer Reviews from Amazon.com]
This is a must read for any educator who believes in adult growth and professional development.
September 20th, 2008
amin
No matter where you are on the organizational ladder, the odds are high that you’ve delivered a high-stakes presentation to your peers, your boss, your customers, or the general public. Presentation software is one of the few tools that requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis.
But unlike verbal skills, effective visual expression is not easy, natural, or actively taught in schools or business training programs.slide:ology fills that void.
Written by Nancy Duarte, President and CEO of Duarte Design, the firm that created the presentation for Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, this book is full of practical approaches to visual story development that can be applied by anyone. The book combines conceptual thinking and inspirational design, with insightful case studies from the world’s leading brands. With slide:ology you’ll learn to:
- Connect with specific audiences
- Turn ideas into informative graphics
- Use sketching and diagramming techniques effectively
- Create graphics that enable audiences to process information easily
- Develop truly influential presentations
- Utilize presentation technology to your advantage
Millions of presentations and billions of slides have been produced — and most of them miss the mark. slide:ology will challenge your traditional approach to creating slides by teaching you how to be a visual thinker. And it will help your career by creating momentum for your cause. - [Editorial Reviews]
September 14th, 2008
amin
No more bullet forms.
No more crowded words.
No more low quality pictures.
No more boring presentation using the so called POWERPOINT.
It is Slide:ology – the art and science creating great presentations.
Slideshare below an examples of slide presentation created by the winners of World’s Best Presentation Contest ’08 organized by slideshare.net. You can find more creative and beautiful presentation from http://www.slideshare.net/contest/results-2008.
Come on teachers! Are you still using an old method of powerpoint presentation to your students?
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September 12th, 2008
amin
I would like to share with you about Steve Job – Apple CEO personal story. A man who are instrumental to make an Apple gadgets from iPod to computer become one of the most successful product in the world.
This is a story told by Steve in front of Stanford University graduates ( June 13, 2005). Steve began by reminding graduates of dropping out of college and that Sunday’s ceremony was the closest he had ever gotten to a university graduation.
“It was impossible to connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life,” he commented. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice…Remembering you are going to die is the best way to avoid the fear that you have something to lose.”
It is an inspiring story. Why don’t you read it yourself and tell me you opinion. Download it from here or watch the clip below.
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It is a paper written by Eleonora Villegas Reimers – Teacher Professional Development: An International Review of the literature, published by UNESCO – International Institute for Educational Planning.
Your can also download the paper from our Shared Files Box.
The Learning Leader: How To Focus School Improvement For Better Results by Douglas B. Reeves is an 121-page compendium of tactics and strategies appropriate for teaching and guiding students to achieve their best efforts in the classroom regardless of the curriculum or subject being studied. Addressing important issues such as the dimensions of leadership, the dilemmas of grading, transformation between learning and leading, improving a school through leadership, and so much more,
The Learning Leader acts as a complete mapping of the struggles often faced by educators in new schools, positions of combined administrative and “on the line” teaching. Critically important reading, especially for those new to teaching,
The Learning Leader is very strongly recommended for student teachers seeking their teaching certificates, as well as recently repositioned teachers searching for an adaptive reference for effectively guiding of their students to improved scholastic results. -[Customer Reviews from Amazon.com]
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