Heuristic
Educational Leaders are most useful in education for high precision situations.
Heuristic Educational Leadership should be consistent
innovation, effective integration of technology, meaningful
professional development, global connecting and an open mind. Heuristic
is encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems on
his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions,
or by trial and error. As the name suggests Heuristic
Educational Leaders are capable of leading at constant tension irrespective of
the load acting on them.
Heuristic
Educational Leadership, according to Nir Golan, educational and leadership expert, is the
owner of Grade-less teaching scheme. Grade-less
teaching scheme succeeds in expanding student's outlooks and enhancing their
ability to perform Quality work independent of institutional coercion.
The goal is to discourage students who aren’t interested in education for its own sake. This way their motivation for schooling will be knowledge-based, not grade-based.
The goal is to discourage students who aren’t interested in education for its own sake. This way their motivation for schooling will be knowledge-based, not grade-based.
At first, students are confused by the
Heuristic educator's refusal to grade their work. Gradually, though, the A
students begin to turn in excellent work, and soon after, B and C students also
begin joining class discussions with unprecedented enthusiasm.
Heuristic Educational Leader must have
the following essential skill sets:
1.
Technological
proficiency: expertise in all the digital nets and tools
2.
Collaboration: the ability to
work as a part of a team, required to have a broad view of the project, have
holistic consideration and collaborate with others in order to achieve
this goal.
3.
Communication: message transfer
and transformation
4.
Global awareness: a whole world
vision
5.
Problem solving: analyzing and
perfectionism
6.
Creativity: thinking out of
the box
7.
Critical thinking: evaluation skills
8.
Tolerance to diversity: accepting the
other
Best students showed a strong preference
for not being graded. Heuristic Educator Leader observes that giving grades
serves to obscure bad teaching, but also notes that it is unfair of him to
refuse to give grades without giving students a positive goal to work towards.
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