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Oct 6, 2017
Scholarship / I have been living my life as a leader in the past 5 years, being an English teacher. CHEVENING [5]
During my school years, I had been relating leadership to some great occupations such as presidents, generals, people who lead companies, and so on. I used to think that I would never be able to be a leader, and I was never born to be one. However, it strikes me that I have actually been living my life as a leader in the past 5 years, as being an English teacher. I believe that teachers are great leaders with a number of students as our followers who count on us to lead them in reaching their goals. I have developed my communication skill because I am dealing with different kinds of pupils, from children to adults who have varied needs and goals. Moreover, I am also challenged to be great at planning lesson and finding the precise materials to meet their needs. My creativity skill is being shaped since I have to manage an educating and fun classroom environment. Reliance to that, I have been planning the lesson carefully and figuring out the best activities and games which are fun and suitable for the students.
From my working experience in XXX for XYZ School, my leadership skill was pushed even further. I was promoted to be the Internal Coordination who dealt with teaching administration and projects. In every final year, we had to perform a musical drama in the kindergarten farewell event. Doing a project with kindergarten students who are 4 and 5 years old is quiet challenging. I began with choosing suitable and great candidates for the casts and matching their time to practice together since they had different class' schedule. Then, I talked to their homeroom teachers, negotiated about the schedule, and made permission notes to the parents so all of the chosen candidates could be gathered together at one time to practice. It was not a quick process, moreover in the practicing. So much effort was needed to make the kids were familiar and able to act and dance in this musical drama. When the day came, I encouraged the kids to have fun in performing the drama because I believe we had enough practicing and it was the time for them to enjoy it. I was surprised and really appreciate that the kids were able to show their best and had fun during the performance. As a result, the supervisor from the XXX congratulated me for being able to carry out the project, also the parents were happy to see the performance and that their kids was involved in that event.
To recapitulate, being an English teacher and those experience have improved my communication, planning, creativity, administrative management, and problem solving skills which will be beneficial for my career now and in the future. I believe that Chevening will give me more valuable experience and priceless opportunity to meet and share insights with influencers internationally to develop my skills and keep me moving forward in the field of education.
Leadership and Influence Question
CHEVENING - I hope you could help me to proofread my essayDuring my school years, I had been relating leadership to some great occupations such as presidents, generals, people who lead companies, and so on. I used to think that I would never be able to be a leader, and I was never born to be one. However, it strikes me that I have actually been living my life as a leader in the past 5 years, as being an English teacher. I believe that teachers are great leaders with a number of students as our followers who count on us to lead them in reaching their goals. I have developed my communication skill because I am dealing with different kinds of pupils, from children to adults who have varied needs and goals. Moreover, I am also challenged to be great at planning lesson and finding the precise materials to meet their needs. My creativity skill is being shaped since I have to manage an educating and fun classroom environment. Reliance to that, I have been planning the lesson carefully and figuring out the best activities and games which are fun and suitable for the students.
From my working experience in XXX for XYZ School, my leadership skill was pushed even further. I was promoted to be the Internal Coordination who dealt with teaching administration and projects. In every final year, we had to perform a musical drama in the kindergarten farewell event. Doing a project with kindergarten students who are 4 and 5 years old is quiet challenging. I began with choosing suitable and great candidates for the casts and matching their time to practice together since they had different class' schedule. Then, I talked to their homeroom teachers, negotiated about the schedule, and made permission notes to the parents so all of the chosen candidates could be gathered together at one time to practice. It was not a quick process, moreover in the practicing. So much effort was needed to make the kids were familiar and able to act and dance in this musical drama. When the day came, I encouraged the kids to have fun in performing the drama because I believe we had enough practicing and it was the time for them to enjoy it. I was surprised and really appreciate that the kids were able to show their best and had fun during the performance. As a result, the supervisor from the XXX congratulated me for being able to carry out the project, also the parents were happy to see the performance and that their kids was involved in that event.
To recapitulate, being an English teacher and those experience have improved my communication, planning, creativity, administrative management, and problem solving skills which will be beneficial for my career now and in the future. I believe that Chevening will give me more valuable experience and priceless opportunity to meet and share insights with influencers internationally to develop my skills and keep me moving forward in the field of education.
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