‘Effective Leadership’ Training by our Head of School on 12 October 2017

On 12 October 2017, our Head of School, Mr Dilip Vasu, conducted a highly energizing workshop with our MYP and DP staff, as well as a few PYP stakeholders and leaders on a very special theme: ‘Effective Leadership’.

The entire session was perfectly organised, highly inspiring and dynamic. It was completely activity-based and interactive. It gave a new vision to the existing CI leadership whereas at the same time it gave a strong motivation with a subtle touch of care and assurance to the upcoming leaders. It was not only focused on effective leadership and team building but, in its flow, it covered all the essential areas of pedagogy including especially effective classroom-management, planning and preparation and teaching.

At the very beginning, the teachers were asked to form groups as per their months of birth and they were distributed a questionnaire seeking their views on team building. This was followed by the questionnaires ‘Why teams sometimes fail’ and ‘When teams are successful’. The questions were highly engaging. Many questions were apparently easy but highly challenging at the core. In order to reinforce ideas, many interesting examples from day-to-day life as well as from classroom situations were given.

Many doubts were cleared in the course of the session. The participants felt quite free to ask the workshop leader questions as every questionnaire was followed by a detailed discussion over every question. Many vital areas such as decision making, the primary role of teams, team meetings, diversity of opinions, team membership skills, effectiveness of a team, individual teaching, and various reasons for failure of teams: lack of clear goals and agreements, misunderstanding some other negatives.

Areas such as clear goal-setting, strong and positive guidance, a strong level of trust, willingness to face harsh facts, open-mindedness, decision-making, accountability for work, roles and responsibilities, open discussions, the success of a planned activity, among others were discussed as opportunities for improvement.

The session was charged with positivity and determination, thus covering areas of effective leadership in school teaching. It also covered, directly and indirectly, all the attributes of the IB Learner Profile with an all pervading gentle sense of humour.

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