21st Century Learning and Teaching

The academic achievement gap in poverty schools coupled with the pressure of school ranking based upon standardized tests causes many educators to focus mainly on the academic needs of students.  many of our poverty students lack the Emotional Intelligence that provides an avenue for academic success.  We must build an awareness of emotional intelligence and then build this in our students just as we build their cognitive intelligence

How does this fit into your leadership framework? Do your arrows flow in the same direction? Does it matter? I believe self-management is the key to the flow, impact, and goal of change for leadership. For me, this is box #1 ... where's yours? 

#Reflexivité  Une ressource pour penser l'autodirection de son parcours professionnel.

Keys to influence

My grandfather had nothing and worked into his 80's.  He lead my family. Jane Goodall is a leader in saving the wild life.  I am very involved in that.  Henri Matisse was a leader in simplicity in Art; it doesn't have to be detailed to get the point across. I think President Bill Clinton was the best leader the US has seen as he helped college students and eliminated our deficit.  CHef Gordon Ramsey is an amazing leader although he runs with an iron fist, he commands respect and excellence in his kitchen.

Something we should be investing more into the future

Bring your learning into the 21st century with some of these ideas....

Three aspects to consider to lower emotional barriers in e-learning: 

1. Proper expectations

2. Gamification

3. Idea of the benefits

This article looks at the role of emotions in learning and their effect on motivation on e-learning. It could equally be applied to learning in general, a useful little summary. 

This article shows a very interesting view of how emotional intelligence can be good and bad at the same time. It can be bad because people will focus mainly on that and it isn't their main task, but it can help in the way that they will know when something can be threatening the well-being of another friend/ co-worker. Being able to critically analyze someone's emotions can be hard because you won't always be right and it can be understood differently.

El poder entender a los estudiantes  en su individualidad como personas que entienden de diferentes formas nos permite ser los mediadores del conocimiento mas efectivos