I believe my membership on DSAC will bring great value to Smith undergraduate experience. I have had a very non-traditional journey and matriculation into the Smith school. However, I believe that I have made a positive impact and created value for my peers in the during my time here. My background before business was in art, as I am a painter and designer. These traits have influenced my personalized passion for the business school greatly. My hopes for my career at the business school is to collaborate
Educational Vision Since the age of five, I have wanted to become an educator. Coming from a household where my mother worked for the Board of Education created a desire in me to want to make a difference at that early age. As the director of youth and adult programs, I have seen the challenges that educational facilities and non-profits are faced with. At times, it was very difficult to execute successful and meaningful programs due to the lack of funding options. I have also seen how it effects
Throughout the semester, I’ve been able to define and fine-tune my philosophy of leadership. Multiple activities and assignments have enabled me to create an overarching philosophy that can be applied to professional and personal situations. Through the review of The Center for Urban School Leadership’s 13 Core Competencies and various leadership theories many aspects of an effective leader are evident and necessary. First and foremost, I believe leadership is a privilege. It’s a privilege to guide
The importance of “vision” in Jewish education for Pekarsky is not limited to one experience of Jewish existence, but an entry into the various forms of the Jewish understandings that can enrich an individual’s life. He points out that visions must address our basic needs for meaning and for a sense of place and time. Pekarsky emphasizes the importance of content that is applicable to the current time and states: “that only when education institution offers students, both young and old, entrée into
principals that were, in my opinion, effective and transformational leaders. Unfortunately, I have also had the occasion of working with principals that made it almost unbearable to continue working in an uninviting and toxic atmosphere, which resulted in many seasoned educators leaving the campus or the education field all together. All of these experiences, good and bad, have made me develop my own perception of administration and of the principalship itself; formulating my own theory as to what
The professional path helps me gained more confidence and experience and has given me a substantial opportunity to discover my practical and management skills. As a result, I learned about my thinking approach, decision-making ability, capacity, and time management skills. I become more confident in communicating with others, how to discuss and make effective decisions while working with a team. I am able to gain professional experience and developed leadership quality. With the help of this course
during her year as an abbess that she decided to share her visions with the world. Each time Hildegard had a vision she became more ill, therefore, she believed keeping these visions to herself and not sharing them had made her more ill. As a young woman, she had a stormy prophetic vision, which she described as “fiery light.” “I saw an extremely strong, sparkling, fiery light coming from the open heavens. It pierced my brain, my heart and my breasts through and through like a flame which did not
another chance for success to occur, growth to be realized, and potential to be reached. Providing these chances allowed for, what I would consider, transformational experiences to occur. My two years in the classroom allowed me to witness, first hand, the educational inequity that exists in America, known as the opportunity gap. My students were victims of a system that failed to adequately address their needs as
a Transformational Leader The role of a leader is to set vision and direction for an organization, and transformational leader “is often depicted as having charisma, or personal magnetism” (Golensky, 2011, p. 73). The most important attributes of this type of leader are self-confidence, determination, vision, and motivation which inspire followers to embrace the proposed change. In addition to having a moral purpose and a compelling vision for the future, transformational leader also “sets a personal
of user 's from single computer to large networks (Microsoft SQL DBA). I have pursued my under graduation in Information Technology, during my course work I was more interested in databases and I have developed special interest in making it as my career. I have learned basics of all database concepts and I have attended extra tuitions and seminars to get in depth knowledge about it. In the last semester of my master’s program I