Hi Pierre:
Great. I like your analogy to commitments, accepting, receptive to feedback. These traits take humble confident individuals. Thanks for sharing.
Regards, Barry
Knowing who you are should help a person grow. Like in business know your strenghts and weaknesses. Commitments are expected. Maintain and neuture what you do well. Improve or change what is not performing. Be humble by accepting and aknowledging feed backs. Be a champion by showing competence, care and making the right choices.
Hi Margaret:
It's good to recognize that we may have personal challenges that "the eyes in the back of our heads can't see". Being willing to adjust, adapt, modify, in effect, change how we are doing something is a trait possessed by better teachers, in my opinion.
Regards, Barry
So that you can maximize your strengths as an individual and instructor and minimize your personal challenges that could negatively affect your students.
Hi Kimberly:
Using what we know about ourselves to the fullest advantage can only help our students. Personality can dazzle or fizzle - we can choos our preferences.
Regards, Barry
Why is it important for you to have an understanding of yourself as an instructional leader?
Hi Kimberly:
Yes, accessing what can help contribute to a students success in a manner that you know will work is very useful information to have to to know. WE all all want the highest levels of success for our students.
Regards, Barry
It gives you insight into what type of personality you have, and the ability to access your strengths and weaknesses.
Hi Connal:
You are right! There is so much diversity. Good teachers will use that diversity to improve their overall classroom experience.
Regards, Barry
Hi Donna:
Yes I think our past experiences is why we were hired in the first place. There are a lot of techniques, many in these lessons. But there is no substitute for experience.
Regards, Barry
Hi Jessie:
You bet. Being comfortable with yourself helps stregthen the confidence and image you want to project. Thanks for sharing.
Regards, Barry
It is critical- we need to know where we come from . This allows you to draw from your past experiences and deliver the materials effectively.
As instructors we do not exist on our own perfect little planets. Instead, we are surrounded by a variety of students, with different backgrounds and abilities, and we must have an understanding of ourselves in order to have some sense of how our students perceive us and then adapt to their needs. Also, you cannot improve if you don't know where and why you need to.
It is important to understand yourself so that you can feel comfortable standing in front of the class and educating the students on the subject matter. Understanding yourself as a instructional leader is crucial you have to develop a relationship of sorts with your students but it needs to be on a professional level. You as the educator they are the student. You are the leader of the classroom, the one they look to for guidance and information about the how's and why's of the function of the class room
Hi Nancy:
I agree and think that when instructors are just themselseves and real about the course and try not to put too many airs, the students will realte to that realness better than someone who seems aloof, unapproachable, or (ick) just plain unfriendly.
Regards, Barry
Hi Leonard:
Your ability and willigness to adapt is a mark of a wise teacher. Thanks for sharing.!
Regards, Barry
Hi Charlin:
True, the more you know about yourself the better able you'll be able to mold your class and it's unique dynamics around a sound lesson plan or instructional unit.
Regards, Barry
Hi James:
Great. Students are often their own best critic.
Regards, Barry
You have to be able to reach anyone at any level, on their level. You can't talk above them or certainly don't want to talk below them. To be effective you have to know yourself and expand your abilities to reach your students.
I feel that I have a mixture of teaching styles that will change depending on the material. I have found myself with a lengthy power point turning into a statue and driving a curriculum like a drill sargent. If I know what my tendancies are I can learn to develop teaching styles that facilitate the material at hand. Also, it is important to note that students respond to different styles, so the ability to change up delivery will help to connect with a broader range of students.
