What is your Leadership Disposition based upon the message in the music?
Directions: You are to click on the link to the song, so you can here the words and listen to the music from "All About Love" by Earth Wind & Fire (1975).
After your listening you should answer the following questions:
How did this song describe any of my beliefs or stimulate thoughts as an individual?
From which phrases, words or sections of the song did you consider or reconsider who you are and what you believe?
Why do you choose to pursue a degree, a certification or a role in leadership?
Who has ever said or written that you demonstrate leadership capacity?
What is the difference between leadership and management?
Can you describe an event where your leadership skills might have been tested?
In what ways can this song improve your capacity to understand leadership principles?
From listening and reflecting on the message in this song, what is the most effective method of assuring the disposition of school leaders reflects an understanding of the social, emotional and philosophical moorings of the people with whom a leader engages?
Directions: You are to click on the link to the song, so you can here the words and listen to the music from "All About Love" by Earth Wind & Fire (1975).
After your listening you should answer the following questions:
How did this song describe any of my beliefs or stimulate thoughts as an individual?
From which phrases, words or sections of the song did you consider or reconsider who you are and what you believe?
Why do you choose to pursue a degree, a certification or a role in leadership?
Who has ever said or written that you demonstrate leadership capacity?
What is the difference between leadership and management?
Can you describe an event where your leadership skills might have been tested?
In what ways can this song improve your capacity to understand leadership principles?
From listening and reflecting on the message in this song, what is the most effective method of assuring the disposition of school leaders reflects an understanding of the social, emotional and philosophical moorings of the people with whom a leader engages?
Due on Tuesday after Labor DAY
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This song describes an emerging theoretical framework for examining relationships between learning dispositions and learning architecture. Three domains of learning are where uncovered by listening to this song. Dispositions- resilience, reciprocity and imagination are uncovered in relation to the structures and processes of assuring the disposition of school leaders reflects an understanding of the social, emotional and philosophical moorings of the people with whom they engage. As with the rest of human life, morality and moral education have an outside and an inside. Seen from the outside morality provides a way getting along with others, and from the inside, it is a way of getting along with oneself. More crudely, moral education is at once a necessary condition for social control and an indispensable means of self-realization. Most of us, including philosophers as well as parents and educators, assume that these two functions of morality sustain each other: what is good for society is good for our kids, and vice versa. Nietzsche and a few other so-called rugged individualists have rejected this assumption, but I will not spend time defending it here. Instead I will focus on the second of these two perspectives, the inside view. My motives for doing this are twofold. First, I want to unpack the general understanding, shared by contemporary educators of all persuasions, that morality is a form of self-realization. In addition, I want to situate this understanding within the philosophical tradition of what, using the term in its broadest possible sense, I will simply call it human development. So where does this leave us? The answer to this question is, I hope, to be found in the remaining half of the semester.
Leadership is about setting a new direction for a group; management is about directing and controlling according to established principles. However, someone can be a symbolic leader if they emerge as the spearhead of a direction the group sets for itself.
“Talking to yourself is fine just know where to draw the line” This is important to me because I talk aloud and think everything through to myself. I decided to pursue a degree in leadership because I am tired of the conditions in which our children and loved ones must live. I have been told by many that I was born to be a leader , but it was not until I saw my skills being used to help others that I knew my voice and skills would take me far. The event that has most tested my leadership skills is “Life” on a daily basis.
Earth Wind and Fire was a musical powerhouse for years. With a name descending from several elements of the universe, these men personified the qualities of both artists and visionaries. They frequently meshed various issues of life with soulful harmonies in order to create music that possessed an air of artfulness, encouragement, and grace. Specifically, the song “All About Love” provided lyrics that yielded the true embodiment of life. This song is a direct correlation to many of my own beliefs and personal philosophies as an individual, since the common message is to spread love and spirit. Phrases such as “paint a pretty smile each day”, “lovin’ is a blessing”, and “you’re as beautiful as your thoughts” further confirmed values I hold such as finding the beauty in every situation despite inconveniences and hardships and also, that each day holds new promises. More importantly, “All About Love” encourages the necessity to develop one’s self awareness and being of life, as a member of the human race. This musical selection helps to further understand leadership principles, in that recognizing beauty is the key to thriving. Simply put “if there ain’t no beauty, you got to make some” therefore, leaders must be optimistic and visionaries at all times (ELCC Standard 1).
I’ve currently chosen to pursue a certification in leadership for various reasons. These reasons include the desire to express my creativity and innovative ideas on a much wider scale, to ensure students have a positive learning experience (ELCC Standard 2), and to become a change agent in the educational enterprise. Due to the leadership qualities I exemplify, my yearning aspirations to see students achieve (ELCC Standard 3), and the unique approach to education I hold, I have been told by many of my peers, superiors, and parents of my students that I should pursue a career in leadership. In choosing to pursue a leadership role, it is necessary that one is able to adequately distinguish between the roles of management and those of leadership. Leadership is centered on formulating and implementing new ideas and strategies that lead those that follow into a new direction. However, management simply entails methods of control according to principles and standards that have already been set.
During various times as a teacher, I have been given the opportunity to serve in leadership roles. In fact, recently as grade level chair, I was given a situation that challenged my leadership skills. A parent came to me concerned as to why her child hadn’t been receiving “traditional” spelling tests. In return, I had to effectively describe that Georgia standards suggest spelling tests be given in a format that is parallel to the standardized CRCT test, which her child would have to take in the spring. However, in order to satisfy her and other grade level parents with similar concerns (ELCC Standard 4), I suggested a spelling supplement (www.spellingcity.com) that would act as a medium to accommodate parents, colleagues, and standards, and would also provide additional help for students, as well.
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