Scholarship / Teachers: Influencers in Schools and Communities - Chevening Scholarship essay [2]

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Essay on Leadership and influencing skills

Chevening is looking for individuals that will be future leaders or influencers in their home countries. Explain how you meet this requirement, using clear examples of your own leadership and influencing skills to support your answer (minimum word count: 50 words, maximum word count: 500 words).

The main task of a good teacher, as I believe, is to push the young generation forward to be the cornerstone of the future society and they must, therefore, have faith that they carry a noble message aiming at serving humanity, believe in their students, and never quit trying to increase their level up. They urge students not only to gain the knowledge but also raise questions about it. Being a teacher of English working with Save the Children over two years and still, I gained much experience which enabled me to distinguish priorities and tackle difficulties effectively. Moreover I grew my faculty to think out of the box to find proper solutions to surmount the current and future challenges. I have always backed my students up and never lose hope in their ability to do the best and present them sentimental and psychological support. I succeeded to create a culture of collective work in the class within their aptitude on the performance of these tasks since I respect individual differences among students. Also being a good listener granted the mates and students the opportunity of expressing their problems freely which made it possible find appropriate solutions.

I worked in supporting courses aimed at helping weak students during summer holiday. Then we developed the work to be reading clubs in schools targeting the same kind of students. The following year, the job advanced to establish Early Childhood and Care Development program (ECCD) which is aimed at preparing children for the school. Owing to poor academic level, it was necessary to open ECCD to grow up a new generation feel the sense of responsibility and adapting a civilized behavior to promote the current state and raise the consciousness level within society. Most children come from the same social background which suffers from poverty, familial violence and psychological effects after ISIS attacks on the town.

For months, we are working on scaling the children up socially, psychologically and scientifically. We succeeded in recovering them along with their families through regular sessions. Children are easily responded to the program since the teachers were good listeners, help them achieve their tasks, and being a good resort whenever facing a difficulty even at home. At the end of the program, we took the final test and the results were amazing. After two months, we visited our students at different schools and they again were an example to follow. Their scores, commitment and superiority were remarkably noticeable. One of the teachers said ''we haven`t met such privileged students for years''. While the other one said ''our efforts toward them are less compared to other pupil yet they score high marks''.