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Finding Leaders in the Darndest Places
Some of our greatest leaders were swindlers and thieves. Why aren’t today’s youth given the same chance?
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”~ John Quincy Adams
As I sit to write this article I find myself being reminded of a young lady (though she would never call herself that) whom I know. She’s a classic anti-leader. In fact, her leadership qualities are so strong that she could easily be the next Pierre Elliot Trudeau if she so desired.
It’s wonderful when you have a group of students come forward and volunteer for leadership roles in your school. It’s great to see them express their ‘type A’ personalities in such a positive way. However, they always tend to be from one or two social groups and don’t represent a good cross section of the school population.
There are leaders among every group of students. Think of it this way, someone has to make the decision of what to do Saturday night when everyone else is sitting on the fence saying “I dunno, I’ll do whatever man.” For various reasons, these students will not take on formalized leadership roles in their schools, perhaps they don’t feel they are good enough, they don’t know anyone else in ‘that circle’, or they just don’t see themselves as a leader.
Improve School Performance
School need a manager or Head School to improve school performance of both the Quality of Education or the Quantity of superior students. Why need to be improved ?
1. Meet demands
2. Improve the competitiveness of human resources
3. Demands of the profession as a School Administrator
Of the three reasons it was necessary willingness, commitment and creativity
To run and improve school performance requires a VISION and MISSION, namely:
1. Accountability
2. And Management System
3. Community Relations
4. Relationships and Communication
5. Environmental Management
6. Learning Activities
In the world of education, a principal should be thinking about learning systems that will in the process to print the students become human resources quality, and required learning activities:
• How to improve the effectiveness of learning
• How about learning methods used
• How does the teacher’s ability to perform management class management
• How to enhance existing assessment methods
• How about the use of technology, facilities and other infrastructure as a means of supporting learning