Noel E K Tan Teaching From My Strengths

Teaching
from my StrengthsTM

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An online workshop introducing
An Appreciative Inquiry Renewal Intervention
for Educators and
Learning and Development Professionals

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World AI Conference 2009, Nepal
17 Nov 2009, 1300 hrs Kathmandu time

Noel E K Tan, 2009. All Rights Reserved.

About Myself
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I run my own consulting practice,
Trailblazer Associates International,
established in 2001
I am an International Association of
Facilitators-Certiﬁed Professional
Facilitator (IAF-CPF)
I was a high school teacher for 6 years
before starting my current practice

For the past 6 years, I have also been teaching and
supervising student-teachers at the National Institute
of Education, Singapore.

I’ve applied AI in these settings:
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Culture Development in Merger,
Integration and Re-structuring settings
Strategic Planning
Team-building for management teams
Coaching


Now over to you...
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Tell us something about yourself:
Your name
The country you’re hailing from
The work that you do
Your intended takeaway from this workshop
Your gift to the group


Scope
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Working Agreements
Our Learning Intent
Appreciative Inquiry...at a glance
Teaching, Learning and
Reframing
Key Tools


Dual Learning Intent
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The Rational Aim:
To share about
the application
of AI in a
renewal
intervention.


Dual Learning Intent
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The Experiential
Aim:
To be energised
by the experience
of looking afresh
at our experience
through a positive
lens.


Our Working Arrangements
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1 Conversation at
a Time

Introduce yourself each time you speak,
so that everyone knows who’s speaking

Any others that you might want to add?


Appreciative Inquiry...at a glance
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5 key
principles
Not
deﬁcit-
focused


Educational Practice, Learning & Reframing
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The essence of traditional educational
practice: Improving by targeting
weaknesses
To facilitate learning is an invitation to
collaborate


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Various aspects of learning theory point
importance of positive emotions for the learner. Eg:
Robert Marzano’s
Dimensions of Learning:
Dimension 1: Attitudes and
Perceptions
Renate and Geoffrey Caine’s
5th Principle of Brain/Mind
Learning: Emotions are
critical to patterning
Social-Emotional Learning &
Emotional Intelligence research


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If these are true for the learner, then
what more for the educator?


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Burnout & Disillusionment


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Reframing - to change
perspectives to gain new
meaning
AI as a reframing tool for
one’s practice as a
Teacher/Learning &
Development
professional
Strengths-based
approach


Key Questions:
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What Strengths do I bring to my
educational practice that make me an
effective teacher?
What do I excel in
when I’m teaching or
training?


Key Tools
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Discovery
Dream
Design
Destiny


Discovering the Best of What is
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Focus: Bringing what’s excellent and
admirable about your practice into your
foreground


Discovery Questions
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When you think of the Teachers/Learning &
Development professionals who had a deep
positive impact on you, what qualities come to
mind? What emotions do you feel in your
recollection? (You may include memories of
your student days)


Discovery Questions
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Recall 1 high-point in your time as a Teacher/
Learning & Development professional that you
are especially proud of. Why did you choose
this high point over others? What strengths
are revealed about yourself?


Discovery Questions
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What do you most admire in the epeople
you presently work with? (You may wish
to include both your colleagues, school
leaders and even your students)


Discovery Questions
 Teacher/
When you think about being an even better
Learning & Development professional in future, what
are:
your present qualities that you want to see
ampliﬁed, and
where relevant, the desired qualities you want to
develop?


Dream what might be
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Focus: Developing a
compelling image of
your ideal future
Identify what brings
you fulﬁllment in
your role as a
Teacher/Learning &
Development
professional


Dream what might be
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Imagine and describe your
ideal, most desired future
state for yourself as an
educator (professionally and
personally)
Remember the 4-5 things
you do best in your role that
you uncovered in the
Discovery stage? Would you
still be doing these in your
ideal future? If so, how? If
not, what other things would
you be doing best?

Dream what might be
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What new capacities
would you have that
help you do the
above?
Who’s with you in
this ideal future?


Designing what could be
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Focus: Seizing opportunities, ﬁnding
leverage points, cultivating allies and
networks, building networks.


Designing what could be
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On a timeline, plot
out opportunities
that will emerge in the
next 18 - 24 months.
Which of these can
you best employ your
strengths and
qualities to seize?
What values will help
guide your actions?

Destiny: Innovating what Will Be
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Focus: Identifying
Courses of Action &
Accountability Partners
List things you could
begin doing to:
seize those
opportunities you
identiﬁed in the
Design phase and
plot them in a simple
2x2 grid as found in
the next slide.


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EASE OF IMPLEMENTATION

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Identify someone who
can be your
accountability
partner on this
journey.
Make a commitment
to share with this
person soon, so that
he or she can keep
you accountable for
your goals and action.

Closing Reﬂections
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What do you remember from our
time together?
What were you struck by?
What does that mean for you?
What might be your ﬁrst step?


Appreciative Acknowledgements
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You for participating and sharing
My teachers and mentors
My student-teachers,
especially the Critical
Friends Group who
meet regularly


Contacting me:
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noel@go-trailblazer.com

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