Growth Mindset

Leaders and Followers

Thought Leadership

Thought leaders are the informed opinion leaders and the go-to people in their field of expertise. They are trusted sources who move and inspire people with innovative ideas; turn ideas into reality, and know and show how to replicate their success. 

Followership

Traditional research in leadership has largely relegated followers to the role of passive recipients or, at best, moderators of leader influence and behaviors. However, recent work in the area of followership has begun shifting this focus and emphasizing the possibility that followers actively have an influence over leaders, in particular leader behavior. 

What makes a good follower?

• Support and aid the leader/ group
• Awareness of the needs of the group and the expectations 
• Able to get a long when needed
• Courage to follow someone
• Critical Thinking

Article about Followership: http://iveybusinessjournal.com/publication/followership-the-other-side-of-leadership/ 

Self-Reflect on “How did you lead and follow during the Collaborative Task’?

• Talked with the group about what we wanted
• Let others share ideas and take lead when they knew more
• Participated in the group task and discussion
• Engaged in the outcome of the task

A video about 21st Century Skill

Our Flipped homework was to watch a video based on 21st Century Skills.

Notes and ideas from this:

Better teaching of critical thinking

Struggle to change is school's biggest conflict

Change is HARD for schools but is achievable

Change is more about being uncomfortable

Schools are becoming more dynamic and adaptable

Courses/subjected should be constructed

Should aim to have our students be:

• Creative
• Adaptive
• Permeable
• Dynamic
• Self-Correcting
• Systematic

Cognitosphere - system of knowledge creation and management

Where do we want to be?

• Dewey (John Dewey)

ANCHORS: Adults have created the anchors for students - they restrict students

DAMS: They must fit into a certain box

Silos: what have we created around ourselves that stop us

Schools that aim to change these are pushing students to be able to achieve the aims.

Teach into the unknown - difficult and

Self-Evolving learner - timeless skills

Teach students who can adapt to change and learning

Self-evolving organisations - Teachers need to be able to adapt to support students

Education Innovation: Preparing our students for their future, not our past.

Challenge to Teachers: JUST START DOING IT

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow” John Dewey

Collaborative Task 1

Collaborative Task 1: 

What is the purpose of Education?

Check out the link to our collaborative task.

YouTube Clip

Some photos of our tasks.

Our Play-Doh representations show what we believe knowledge to be.

The tree represents growth and that knowledge is something that always grows. The idea that the tree is like a palm tree is that it can re-populate itself, so that knowledge is always evolving. 

The infinity waka is to represent how knowledge is constant.

The paddles and net show how you can capture knowledge.