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Oct 11, 2017
Scholarship / I have been living my life as a leader in the past 5 years, being an English teacher. CHEVENING [5]
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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 this past 5 years, as being an English teacher. During my employment in XXX, I was chosen to be a deputy for the XXX in its partnership school, XYZ School. Thus, I was not only assigned as an English teacher but also as an Internal Coordinator in XYZ Kindergarten who dealt with teaching administration and projects. One of the projects I should deal with is, in every final year, we have to perform a musical drama in the kindergarten farewell event.
As a new employer, doing a project with kindergarten students who were 4 and 5 years old was quiet challenging. Moreover, teaching them to perform a musical drama that was not in their mother tongue in a short period of time. Hence, I began with choosing suitable and great candidates for the casts and matching their time to practice together since they had different class' schedule. To solve this varied classes schedule, I started discussing with their homeroom teachers, negotiating about the schedule, and making permission notes for the parents so all of the chosen candidates could be gathered together at one time to practice. Fortunately, both the homeroom teachers and parents approved it excitedly. It was not a quick process, mostly 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 appreciated 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 organise the project, also the parents were delighted to see the performance and thankful also proud that their kids were involved in that event. I am safely able to say that this project was successfully done.
To recapitulate, being an English teacher and those experiences 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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This is my 2nd draft of Leadership and Influence Question for Chevening. need comment and correction
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 this past 5 years, as being an English teacher. During my employment in XXX, I was chosen to be a deputy for the XXX in its partnership school, XYZ School. Thus, I was not only assigned as an English teacher but also as an Internal Coordinator in XYZ Kindergarten who dealt with teaching administration and projects. One of the projects I should deal with is, in every final year, we have to perform a musical drama in the kindergarten farewell event.
As a new employer, doing a project with kindergarten students who were 4 and 5 years old was quiet challenging. Moreover, teaching them to perform a musical drama that was not in their mother tongue in a short period of time. Hence, I began with choosing suitable and great candidates for the casts and matching their time to practice together since they had different class' schedule. To solve this varied classes schedule, I started discussing with their homeroom teachers, negotiating about the schedule, and making permission notes for the parents so all of the chosen candidates could be gathered together at one time to practice. Fortunately, both the homeroom teachers and parents approved it excitedly. It was not a quick process, mostly 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 appreciated 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 organise the project, also the parents were delighted to see the performance and thankful also proud that their kids were involved in that event. I am safely able to say that this project was successfully done.
To recapitulate, being an English teacher and those experiences 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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