Leadership and Service: A Life Path for ELT Professionals

KOTESOL Proceedings 2009

Maria Pinto & David Shaffer (Eds.)

Part one of this article introduced the reader to the background information and rationale of the D.R.E.A.M. Management concept; a management approach designed to keep quality teaching and learning at the heart of everything we do as educators. Part one also introduced the reader to the first five management principles, while also asking questions designed to make the reader reflect about their own perspectives as educational managers and leaders, or as classroom educators. Part two of the article deals with the second set of five principles. These principles like the first five are drawn from educational management, team building, staff development and leadership sources and are designed to keep teaching and learning at the heart of education by engaging faculty and encouraging them into more management and leadership roles The aim of D.R.E.A.M. is the creating of better pedagogical standards and more satisfied and successful stakeholders.

2015

This book consists of a selection of papers based on talks and workshops delivered at the 3rd ELT Malta conference. The book’s title is derived from the theme of the conference and it brings together the perspectives of a group of international and Maltese experts in ELT, all of whom address the idea that learning needs to be an intrinsic part of the identity of ELT professionals.peer-reviewe

Although English Language Teaching (ELT) departments in Japan are usually made up of both Japanese and foreign English speaking faculty, to date no significant research has been done to try understand the attitude differences between these two groups, or to map what is deemed to be acceptable pedagogical, management or leadership practice by each group. What is likely true is that in most cases foreign-faculty can feel frustrated by the opaqueness of the management systems and the lack of clear and inspiring leadership in Japan that can quite often leave them feeling undervalued as professionals. This paper discusses the D.R.E.A.M. Management approach, an approach that tries to keep the teaching and learning as the core elements of a department or institution. Like the originators of the DREAM Management approach, this author also believes that it is the students and the learning that they undertake that should be at the heart of everything we do in ELT and therefore the teachers, who are those closest to both the students and learning, must be the engine of educational management, innovation and change. DREAM Management is a series of ten principles drawn from various sources which tries to keep teaching and learning at the heart of education by engaging teachers and encouraging them into management and leadership roles with the hope of creating better pedagogical models and standards and more satisfied and successful stakeholders. Part One of this paper introduces the basic concept of DREAM Management and the first five principles.

KOTESOL Proceedings 2002

Gerry Lassche & David Shaffer (Eds.)

2008

Welcome to the new Emerging Leadership Journeys (ELJ). We believe that students in their first four terms of study have something of value to offer the leadership academy and have produced the ELJ as a logical outcome of this belief. Dr. Bocarnea has demonstrated support and consideration for students beginning their doctoral studies, and I am pleased that he is heading up this new journal.

Journal of Academic Ethics, 2004

as a basis, this essay suggests that leadership should be an expectation of professional academics in all the categories of their work, namely teaching, research and service. The desirability of developing the leadership of service in particular is advanced as an appropriate expectation for faculty members' career progress. Developing a general leadership ethos is both philosophically appropriate and practically advantageous in collegial organisations.

Quality of Life in Asia, 2015

2019

The purpose of this article is to present certain facts related to English Language Teaching curriculum in Moroccan higher education institutions. There is a high demand of leadership and entrepreneurial skills for university students to participate in individual and societal development. This study reveals the findings from empirical questionnaires distributed among lecturers to reflect upon challenges, requirements, and future prospects of ELT. It examines the necessary competencies and skills targeted in the teaching process, trying to update the tools and the knowledge to the needs of the job market. The role that the reform of ELT curriculum ought to play in Higher education institutions' guidelines has not to be considered little since it can promote the quality, the skills and the capacities of students in their future jobs.