יום שבת, 10 באוקטובר 2015

Heuristic Educational Leader


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.
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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