Feb

10

Leadership Qualities

Filed Under Behaviour Management, The Way I See It 

queen.jpgRecently Todd talked about getting hit with a meme, and then he hit me with one. I didn’t really know what a meme was before Todd hit me with one. So I sat there for a moment thinking, and then I did what I usually do when I don’t know something. I googled it. Well actually first I tried to make sense of the word “meme” by doing what I tell my students to do. Look at it in context. Try to figure it out that way, but I still really didn’t get it so I googled “meme” and landed in Wikipedia. The first thing I learned was that I had been pronouncing “meme” incorrectly. Meme apparently rhymes with theme. I’d been pronouncing meme as in memo. Yes, I know there’s some rule for pronouncing words that involves vowels, but I always forget it. Then, I read that meme “refers to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another.” Ok, got it. That made sense. Todd was asking me to transfer my notion of ” What are seven qualities we don’t know about you that help you be a leader?” to others via a post in my blog.

Ok, I thought. Now I knew how to prounounce meme (as in theme) and I knew what it meant. Things were looking up. Then I noticed Todd wanted me to hit seven other people with this meme. Seven other people? That’s not a huge number, but I don’t know seven other people that I could hit with a meme. Not many people I know blog , and the the one’s I do know are all memed out, except for two- Lisa and Chris. I’ll hit them. Now all I had to think about was the seven qualities other bloggers didn’t know about me.

Here’s my list

  • I’m the oldest child in my family so I’ve had lots of practise bossing motivating young people.
  • I have a letter somewhere that thanks me for the leadership I showed when I was the Assistant Head of Special Education at one of my schools.
  • I have a plaque in my office that thanks me for the leadership I showed when I was the collective bargaining representitive for my school when we negotiated one of our contracts with the Board.
  • I have excellent intrapersonal intelligence. I know I don’t know it all.
  • I have excellent interpersonal intelligence. I know what makes people tick and what buttons not to push if I want co-operation.
  • I’m an excellent role model. I help students realize that teachers are human beings first and teachers second, and that we’re really in this all together.
  • I ‘ve shown many young students how to make better choices so that they can have better lives.

Here’s my hit list

Lisa- www.lisahartjes.com

Chris- www.littlehart.net

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