Educational Leadership Challenges in the 21st Century by Mirza Yawar Baig

1. How to prepare students for the future
Challenges for Educators

2. Mirza Yawar Baig
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4. To teach the child to succeed in a future that you
know nothing about
Your challenge

5. Think of your role model
 For howmany of you is it a parent or a teacher?
 What wouldyour children / students say if I were to ask themthe same
question?
The challenge is to inspire those who we have the maximum facetime
with

6. Why do you teach?
1. History?
2. Geography?
3. Mathematics?
4. Do your exam questions reflect this?
What if you taught keeping the real purpose in mind?

7. A system
designed to
create obedient
slaves

8. Define the Product
Method will depend on the definition

9. What question do we ask?
 What was your rank? (Mark percentage)
 What did you learn?
Is it a surprise that 85%of engineers are unemployable?

10. Define your role
 Teaching him about flying
 Teaching him to fly

11.  Define our product: What are we tryingto create?
 What you needto create a plane is not the same as what you needto createa
train
 Changes must be made in both‘What’ and ‘How’
Most important need
You can’t build an aircraft in a locomotive factory

12.  Using knowledge – What new inventions?
 New knowledge – What newpublications?
 Leveraging Knowledge – What impact in society?
Assessment Parameters
Financial benefit is a byproduct

13. Our successful system
 Rewards compliance
 Punishes investigation, questioning, change
 Focusedon stuffing the headwith randombits of information – not on opening
the door to lifelonglearning
 Tests randomrecall in a specific time window- exams
How many children read text books after the exam?

14. The Tragedy
Is that our system is highly successful

15. 21st Century Leadership
To help themto thrive in a world we know nothing
about

16. If a system is to be judged by its results, what
should we say about our education system
looking at its result – our society?

18. Leadership through Education
What it is and what it can do

19. Real education
 Basedon two principles:
1. Responsibility for what you holdin trust
2. Desire to make a positive difference
 Our global problems today are not due to lack of resources but lack of
accountability
The cure for that is a live conscience

20. Responsibility
1. Accepting responsibility for others, adds value to us. After all that is
what we seek all through our careers
2. Enables us to rise above our base desires and invokes the best in us
3. Is the only way to leave a legacy of honor
It takes courage to accept responsibility

21. Make a positive difference
1. Helping others to succeed
2. See value in it for yourself
3. Payback for what we received – build the bridge after crossing the
river
WiiFM is a station everyone listens to

22. What we need
When was the last time that you rewarded a student for disagreeing
with you?
Question Challenge Change

23. What we produce
We rewardcompliance andpunish questioning
Accept
ComplyContinue

24. What we must encourage
But we demand conformity and punish diversity
Imagination

25. What we must do
But we dampen and punish
Provoke

26. Education is not the accumulation of random
bits of information, no matter how complex.

27. Challenges for Educators
21st Century and Beyond

28. “A forking time in history is a time of great instability. But it is the
only time when the puny effort of a single man or woman can change
the pathof destiny.”
Food for Thought
But to apply effort you needto know the right direction

29. “Perspective is the ability to hold twopictures simultaneouslyin your mind…
where you are and where you want to be. Growthhappens because where you
want to be is more important to youthan where youcurrently are.”
Perspective
Without perspective you can never knowthe right direction

30. Changes thanks to the
Industrial Revolution
1760-1820/40 to 2015

31. 1. Time of day: Sun to shift bell
2. Parental role: Life coachto wage earner
3. Source of knowledge: Parent to Teacher
4. Concern: Collective to individual
Industrial Revolution changed
We’re all part of this – not standing outside

32. Challenge
To deal with rapid disruptive change
Future change will take years where past change took centuries

33. 1. Goals: Primarily non-monetary to money
2. Success: Long termto short term
3. Human value: Honor to money
4. Net worth: Learning andCharacter to Bank balance
5. Progress: Rapidcontinuous growth in net worth
Changes – Industrial Revolution
Programmed dissatisfaction

34. Knowledge ‘Workers’
 Huge increase intechnology: Workers fromdeveloping countries
 Complexity: Migration to developed countries
 Formal educationrequired
 Manual worker today needs technical education
 Higher expectations anddemands
 Higher spending potential
 Change of values, ethics, morals, culture, focus, aspirations, education
Lessons from Industrial revolution in social change

35. 1. Do we see ourselves as Key Influencers?
2. What is the evidence of that in what we teach and how?
3. What is our connection to the real world to ensure relevance?
4. What are our metrics of success?
Key Questions
What you don’t measure, you can’t know or guarantee

36. With respect to Change: To
 Survive Adapt
 Grow Anticipate
 Transform Drive / Initiate
So what do we need to change?

37. Global Challenges
Of the new world

38. The first commercial text message was sent in
1992
Today (2015) the total number of text messages exchanged is 350
billion exceeds the entire population of the planet by 5 times (7
Billion)

39. Years to reach an audience of 50 million
38 years
35 days3 years
3.5 years
4 years 13 years

40. Number of internet devices
In 1984 1000
2016(projected) 64,000,000,000

41. There are 1,025,109 words in
English (2015)
In 1950 it was 500,000

42. Researchers have developed a new fibre optic technology
capable of transferring data at a rate of 255 terabits per
second (Tbps)
- more data than the total traffic flowing across the internet at
peak time.

43. So what does it all MEAN for
you as a teacher??

44. Essence of it all
 Faster and easier access to information
 Hugely enhanced computation power
 Huge information storages
 Hugely fast searches
 Potential to forecast scenarios, prepare for eventualities, predict outcomes,
options
 Potential to control, influence, track, help, network, leverage, surveillance,
security, share, empower and earn

45. Operative Questions
 What are our criteriaof judgment?
 What values will drive our decisions?
 What is the cost of change?
 What is the price of not changing?
 What demands will the new generations have?
 How will these be fulfilled?

46. Integrated Teaching
A brief glimpse

47.  Connectivity: Show links between subjects
 Utility: Show howthese apply in real life
 Curiosity: Raise questions
Integrated Holistic Teaching
What do the majority of students do with text books once the
course is over?

48. Class Room
 Students of multiple ages
 Several teachers – subject wise + class teacher
 Self-learning anddiscovery
 Teachers provide support only
Text books dumb down knowledge. Teachoriginal texts

49. Project: Oceans
 Biology: Marine plants & animals
 Physics: Displacement floats ships
 Chemistry: Why is sea water salty?
 Geography: Navigation, Orienteering, sailing,
 Engineering: Ship building
 History: Maritime history of nations, colonial domination
 Trade: Routes, goods, cultural & population change
Living knowledge applied in context

50. Project: Mountains
 Geology: Isostacy of mountains: Stabilizing effect
 Geography: How mountains effect climate
 Biology: Mountain flora & fauna
 History: How mountains affectedhistory of nations
Draw lessons to connect to current events

51. How?
Recognize the problem and seek
solutions

52. O! Teacher, stop teaching
And start learning

53. Daily Self-assessment
 Start discovering, learning, enjoying.
 Start appreciating that the student is the best thing that happenedto
you andevery single day try to become the best thing that happens to
himor her.
‘If youwant to know what someone values, see what they measure.’~ MikelHarry(Motorola,6 – Sigma
Quality)

54. Ushers – not teachers
 Teachers must neverteach.
 They must be like ushers in a vast museum, walking quietly withtheir students
tiptoeing behind them, opening one door after another – letting themtake a
peek – and then handing themthe key to the door so that they can come back
and explore in detail.
Is every day exciting?

55. Give them the keys
 The teacher then takes themto another door for another peek and
another key. See??
 Imagine how exciting that is for thestudent!
 The teacher’s job is to give themthe keys.
Teaching is about asking questions – and teaching them
to ask questions.

56. Ask questions
 Rewardthe best question
 The teacher who gives answers has failed.
 Let themfindthe answers and be prepared for answers you didn’t ever
think about
The best question is the one that left you speechless

57. It’s not about today
Teaching is about keeping the
excitement of learning alive all lifelong.

58. Consider
 Our present systemof teachingdiscretesubjects fromtext books, dictating
notes, model question papers and cramming factories to pass exams fromthe
perspective of real EDUCATION
 So what are we really trying to achieve?
And we actually reward this violence

59. What do you call?
 Someone who studiedsomething full time for 15 years?
 What do you call someone who passes the 12th exam?
 So what was achieved in 15 yearsof schooling?
And we actually get paid for it

60. Do you really want to change?
1. What is the cost of changing?
2. What is the cost of not changing?
3. What will be easy?
4. What will be difficult?
5. What are you willing to do to make it happen?
Results are directly proportional to effort

61. Success is a process of
connecting aspirations to reality
Investment
Commitment
Adaptability
Persistence
Ambivalence Passion

62. If you want to be successful you must respect
one rule:
Never lie to yourself.
~ Paulo Coelho

63. ‘SMART’ Goals
1. Specific
2. Measurable
3. Actionable
4. Realistic
5. Time bound

64. Start Stop Continue
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What is my investment?

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