In this article Don Hall writes about how to lead in a classroom. The way that he goes about this is by using acrostics. An instructional strategy that will not only engage your students but also allows for facilitating instructional dialogue or prewriting tools. The acrostic word that he used was LEAD. Which stood for Love, Excellence, Accountability, and Direction. He felt that you as a teacher really need to Love what your doing and your students in order to be affective. Hall goes on to say that you need to expect nothing but Excellence from your students and yourself. In order to become a good leader you should always give it all you have when it comes to results, behavior and attitude. Accountability is key because it teaches us to be held to higher standards and also forces us to work as a team. To become a good leader you also have to have direction of where you are going and what you are doing. Which I believe is very vital when we talk about technology and education. I really liked Hall’s acrostic, I plan on using that in my classroom to give my students the standards of what it takes to be a LEADER! I felt that his article was very effective and straight to the point of how to go about making leaders out of yourself and your students.
Like I previously stated, I plan on implementing the L.E.A.D. in my classroom. I believe students don’t want to be followers and if I could give them the blueprint of how to become leaders while educating them I see it as a win-win situation. Knowing how technology driven we are in this country I think my students direction on how to improve it and how to love it will come into play.
Aaron,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you on this point! Having students learning to become leaders in life is the greatest tool that we as teachers can do. Giving them that support will help our future students come to realize who they are and what they can accomplish as students. L.E.A.D. sounds like are very productive tool to use in the classroom and I will also find a way to implement this in my class as well. Very interesting article. Good job!
Aaron,
ReplyDeleteI liked how simple the LEAD acrostic was but how powerful. I see each of the words as being equally important in both the teacher role as well as the student role. If we practice what we preach and model excellence, love, accountability and direction, it can't help but rub off on our students and cause them to become great leaders and better people in the process.