My Journey as an Instructional Leader
Reflections of learning and leading
Sharing in the OECS Early Learners
Programme has taught me so much
My journey as an Early Learners
more than prescriptive strategies about
Programme Co-ordinator began about
the teaching of reading; it has taught
two years ago and over the course of my
me how to become a better me. I have
expedition, I have grown and learned
learned how to think more critically, to
more than I thought possible. I started
become an active listener and how to be
this venture as a new Reading Resource
a resource to teachers, students and the
teacher, hungry to learn more about
community at large. I also learned to find
Literacy. As a classroom teacher, I
identified some deficits and issues relating the various answers and approaches to the
information that I don’t know and how
to literacy. As such, I viewed this as an
important teamwork, communication
opportunity to acquire a prescription for
remedying issues I was experiencing. You and planning are. Most importantly, what
I’ve gleaned from this
see, I already knew where I wanted to
experience thus far
be and had taken numerous courses and
is the importance of
jumped at every opportunity available to
developing leadership
develop more skills in Literacy. I thought
skills.
that I knew exactly what I was heading
towards when I applied to become an ELP
Coordinator. Was I ever sooo wrong!
Renee Anthony,
Nevis
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