I plan how to lead my students through their educational way, to develop their critical thinking

Hello,

I'm applying to chevening scholarship, I answered the networking and leadership questions but I need to revise my answers if they need modifications or anything to make them better.

Here are my answers

1. Leadership and influence question

As a teacher, I do not just plan how to fulfill the curriculum outcomes, I, more importantly, plan how to lead my students through their way to learn, to develop their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

When I started my teaching career two years ago, I had no idea what am I ought to do while I'm face to face with a group of students each with his/her expectations, some of them were easy to handle, others were challenging. With no previous teaching experience and no pedagogical or educational background, I struggled at the beginning. I wanted so much to overcome this, I started asking my colleagues to make peer visits to my sessions; I was more interested in their criticism more than their praise. I made visits to their sessions too. We started to exchange our experiences and share our ideas about better ways of delivering certain information.

I ended my first year of teaching with a quite good impression as a hard-working teacher yet deep inside I believed that there should be more to give as a teacher. I started developing my professional skills as a teacher; I attended workshops and read about teaching and instructional strategies. I believed in the power of knowing my students well to teaching them efficiently, so I started building strong teacher-student relationships with them, listen to their ideas helping them creating new ideas and concepts using the knowledge provided in their curriculum.

Last summer, I started a professional educator diploma for early years, as I wanted to have a contribution in shaping the minds of these young learners so they can find their way to be self-learners. And here I'm applying for a master's degree in the UK so I can further develop my capabilities as a teacher and have a more effective contribution in developing science curricula in my country so we can provide next generations better learning opportunities than ours.

Throughout this journey I haven't only tried to guide and lead my students through their learning process, I also led myself to a path I believe that I can make a difference through it.

2. One essay at one time please

@HebaM
You have not shown us a clear example to prove your leadership skills and how you influence your students. You are just writing on your experiences as a teacher not on your challenges. Your second to last paragraph says on what you ought to do to influence your students. I think you should write on what you have done already to influence them. Work on your essay OK.

Hebtullah, it is true that you have not shown a clear example of leadership and influencing skills in this essay. If anything, you showed how your friends led and influenced the method by which you performed in your profession. So this is not the essay that you should present. This will not be acceptable because the discussion is incorrect and the minute the reviewer realizes this, he will cancel your application. One mistake in any of the essay presentations and your scholarship quest comes to an end. The best thing to do in this instance is to have you write a totally new essay. One that you have written after you have considered if you truly have any leadership and influencing abilities to speak of. Since it has to be professional in nature, you can opt to discuss an experience you had leading and influencing a problem student you had in your class. If developed and discussed properly, such a situation could fully illustrate your leadership and influencing abilities for the essay.