the ambassador learner - western cape · 2019. 3. 28. · story a story of many imagined voices...
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THE AMBASSADOR
LEARNERTRANSFORMING SCHOOLS - TRANSFORMING SOCIETY
SUPPORT SERVICES
TRANSFORMING SCHOOLS – TRANSFORMING SOCIETY
WCED FUTURE FOCUS CONFERENCE
WCED CELEBRATING THE FUTURE, TODAY
WCED FUTURE FOCUS CONFERENCE
RE-IMAGINING and
TODAY
“EDUCATION CONVERSATIONS FOR THE FUTURE”
aims to bring together a range of voices in education and development in the
Province to discuss educational challenges with a focus on a rapidly
changing technological and living
ENVIRONMENT
EDUCATIONis the
ENVIRONMENTin which
TRANSFORMATIONtakes place
ENVIRONMENT
MATTERS
OUR STORY
A STORY OF MANY IMAGINED VOICESBECAME OUR LIFE MISSION
I GREW UP POOR, but…CAUGHT
RICH
VALUESfrom my
UNEDUCATED
PARENTS
They couldn’t teach me
MATHS ,but taught me
MANNERS
ENVIRONMENT FOR EVERY LEARNER‘’ENSURING QUALITY EDUCATION FOR EVERY LEARNER, IN EVERY
CLASSROOM, IN EVERY SCHOOL IN THE WESTERN CAPE’’2019 YEAR OF THE LEARNER
SCHOOLS WITHHAPPY LEARNERS
CARING TEACHERS INVOLVED PARENTS
SAFE ENVIRONMENTSCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
WHAT
KIND OF
SCHOOLS
DO WE
WANT
TO SEE IN
OUR
SOCIETY?
SOCIETY IS MORALLY SICK
and schools have become the places where most of the
sickening symptoms are displayed and
vomited out – daily.
REALITY IS CULTURE OF DISRESPECTNEW NORMAL
THE NEW NORMAL
A CULTURE OF
DISRESPECT…For SELF, OTHERS, ENVIRONMENT
‘’I think the toughest part of Teaching is surviving aDYSFUNCTIONAL WORLD’’-Megan Allen
IT EFFECTS EVERYBODYHOW WE LEARN, TEACH, PARENT, LEAD
• No longer enthusiastic to TEACH/LEARN/LEAD/PARENT
• Experiencing regular low energy levels
• Questioning my competence (Low Self-Esteem)
• BULLYING/harassment/LEARNERS/STAFF/PARENTS
• Working harder/longer with less results
• Often feeling anxious or “sick”
• Suffer from chronic unhappiness
• CONFLICT, TENSION, CLIQUES, scepticism
• UNINVOLVEMENT…WITHDRAWAL
• DEPRESSED, STRESSED, BURNOUT…
•ABSENTEEISM
• NAME• BLAME• SHAME
We can either COMPLAIN about the
BAD we see; or CONTRIBUTEtowards the GOOD we want to see…
When everybody is labelled
THE PROBLEM
nobody will take
responsibility for being
THE SOLUTION
NO SCHOOL
IS
PERFECT…
IF YOU
FIND THE
PERFECT
SCHOOL ,
DON’T JOIN
IT, YOU’LL
MAKE IT
IMPERFECT
Don’t BLAME,
TRAINEVERYBODYto become the
change we all wish to see in our
schools, homes and community
EDUCATIONIS
EVERYBODY’SBUSINESS
HOME SCHOOLCOMMUNITY WCED
BUTNOT
EVERYBODY KNOWS HOW
THE BOOK OFFERS A SYSTEMIC SOLUTION
TO HELP CREATE HEALTHY
ENVIRONMENTS where a CULTURE of RESPECT
for SELF, OTHERS becomes the NORM and
not the exception, no matter size, location or
status of the school
AIM OF AMBASSADOR
LEARNERSUPPORT SERVICES
TO
PERFORM
EMPOWEREVERYBODY TO
TRANSFORM
TRANSFORM – NOT JUST REFORM
EXTERNAL CHANGES
to IMPROVE in the present what we
have done in THE PAST…
RESULTS-DRIVEN
RELATIONSHIP-DRIVEN
INTERNAL CHANGES
IMAGINING andCREATING the FUTURE we
wish to see in the present,
TOGETHER…
TRANSFORM
Great RESULTS are consequences
of HEALTHY
RELATIONSHIPS(SYSTEMIC) – based on
SHARED VALUES
Stop COMPETING and start
COMPLEMENTING one another as
PARTNERS with
SHARED VALUES
IMAGINE SCHOOLS
WHERE…LEARNERS LOVE to attend;
PARENTS LOVE to be involved with and feel safe to send
their children to; TEACHERSLOVE to teach at; NON-
EDUCATORS LOVE to work; PRINCIPALS LOVE to lead
and manage;COMMUNITIES LOVE to talk
positively about…
IMAGINESCHOOLSEVERYONE
LOVES
If education is the environment in which transformation takes
place, than ENVIRONMENT
matters…It communicates either good or bad messages
about your school’s CULTURE
ENVIRONMENT
SPEAKSABOUT YOUR
CULTURE
A CULTURE OF RESPECT
(EXCELLENCE)
is not a private or X-model C school thing.
A CULTURE
OF RESPECT
EVERY SCHOOL - no matter size, location
or status CANbecome a school of
EXCELLENCE – A
VALUES-DRIVENEDUCATION
EVERYSCHOOL
CAN…
‘’Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make a person a more clever devil’’ – C.S. Lewis
I GREW UP POOR, but…CAUGHT
RICH
VALUESfrom my
UNEDUCATED
PARENTS
They couldn’t teach me
MATHS ,but taught me
MANNERS
• Politeness
• Helpfulness
• Responsibility
• Neatness
• Humility
• Tolerance
• Teach-ability
• Thankfulness
• Honesty
• Cheerfulness
IS BEST TAUGHT
WHEN CAUGHT
VALUES DRIVENEDUCATIONSTARTS WITH
SELF-RESPECT
CHANGE STARTS WITH
ME
BE THE CHANGE…
‘’CHARACTER is
the real foundation of all worthwhile success - it is an inside job that
produces
SELF-RESPECT’’- John Hays Hammond
CHARACTER
PRODUCES
SELFRESPECT
CHARACTERis not a
by-product of education
– it’s the essence of education
CHARACTER
AWARD
OF CHARACTER
CHARACTER AWARD
HPS
LEARNER
PARENT
COMMUNITYPRINCIPAL
(SGB + SMT)
EDUCATOR
VALUESDRIVEN
EDUCATIONIS A
PARTNERSHIP
LEARNER
PARENT
COMMUNITYPRINCIPAL
(SGB + SMT)
EDUCATOR
TRAININGMENTORING SCHOOLS‘’RETYRED’’ TRAINERS
This
PARTNERSHIPwon’t just happen – it has to be led
by a VALUES-DRIVEN TEAM LEADERS
WE TRAIN learners, parents, staff,
management to BE the CULTURE they want to see in their ENVIRONMENT…
LEAVE TO SERVE ENTER TO LEARN
STEPS TOWARDS BECOMING AN
AMBASSADOR LEARNER
LEAVE TO SERVE ENTER TO LEARN
It's THE TEACHER that makes the difference, NOT the classroom. - Michael Morpurgo
How do we support the teacher to BE THE DIFFERENCE?
‘’CHILDREN WHO ARE LOVED AT HOME, COME TO SCHOOL TO LEARN. CHILDREN WHO AREN’T LOVED AT HOME, COME TO SCHOOL TO BE LOVED’’
Whatever qualities you want in your child, need to be
portrayed in your own
life”
PARENTS
Your
children
need
your presencemore than
your presentsWHO you are to your child is more
important than WHAT you give them
TURN EVERY LEARNER, IN EVERY CLASSROOM
IN EVERY SCHOOL, INTO A NICK
‘’Education is not ultimately about training people to be clever or successful, but about discovering what it is to be the full human beings God intended us to be.’’
– John Wesley
SUPPORT SERVICES
Re-inventing VALUES-DRIVEN Schools
FREE SUPPORT SERVICES: TRAINING, TALKS, SEMINARS for PARENTS, LEARNERS/PREFECTS,
STAFF DEVELOPMENT, LEADERSHIP…
SUPPORT SERVICES
Re-inventing VALUES-DRIVEN Schools
THANK YOU
I WAS BORN TO BE A TEACHER,
to encourage, to instruct, to mentor, to inspire, to
praise, to guide. IT’S WHO I AM. It is my CALLING. It is my
PASSION. It is my LIFE and my
WORLD
I AMCALLED
A good teacher is like a candle -it consumes itself to light
the way for others.
WITHOUT YOU THE WORLD WOULD BE A DARK
AND COLD PLACE
HEAL SOCIETY THROUGH
VALUES-DRIVEN
EDUCATION
THE AMBASSADOR
LEARNER
SUPPORT SERVICES
Re-inventing VALUES-DRIVEN Schools
FREE SUPPORT SERVICES: TRAINING, TALKS, SEMINARS for PARENTS, LEARNERS, PREFECTS,
STAFF DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT
