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The situation that I choose is the following master I should study after this one.
In the next two weeks I am going to make a research on the different programs I am interested in.
During the next week I am going to evaluate them in terms of price, obtainment of teaching license, face to face hours and school leadership content as I want to continue with my just started career in leadership.
Probably it will be to get a teaching license.
I will get all the information needed and provide all the documentation needed and register for it.
Around September start and finish around July.

How did you decide?
I decided the time allocation to each of the steps according to the time it takes for me to get things done in each of the steps combined with my time availability.

I choose those options according to my interests and also to what I think is best for my career at the moment.
I prioritized in this case what I think is safer which would be to get a teaching license as in case of need that will open more doors. It is difficult to prioritize as in this case, my interest is somewhere else but according to the criteria I considered to be the most important the decision should be made in a different direction.
For the six thinking hats I consider:
Process: Get information about universities in order to move on the next steps. The processes of registering in each university should be clear.
Facts: Price; duration; face to face hours, when and where; prestige of the institution; documentation needed, etc.
Feelings: I feel that I will need to complete that program in Spain as British or American institutions won't accept me without any English certificate of language.
Creativity: Find other countries where English is the oficial language and try to get information from universities there in case of need for alternatives.
Benefits: I think this decision process will work because it will be faced with enough time in advance.
Cautions: The first information I should get is when the enrollment starts in order to be sure to don't miss the dates.

I think the De Bono helps to consider all the implications that a decision or a process. By looking at all perspectives we can more prepared for the inconvenient. If I already took in consideration what to do if something goes wrong I will be able to react faster in case of inconvenient while not considering these things conduct into a crisis management where problems are faced when happen.
For me the easier hats to answer where the ones that relates to fact and feelings, it is easier for ourselves to think about the feelings that a decision or a situation provoque on us, it is also easy to the reflect on all the things that we need to know in order to make a decision.
I think the most complicated one is the creativity hat, as we have a preconceived idea of the direction and steps that we need to follow to reach a goal it is more complicated to think on possible alternatives if things go wrong at some point in the process. This is one of the reasons why we should consider them before to start any process.

I think action plans are an effective tool as they help to reflect in all the implications and ramifications that every action has, at least myself I try to underestimate the time it takes to do things, using action plans I can get the big picture of the time I need and help me to monitor the process.
For reflection is as well an important tool, once the process is done taking a look on the action it will help us to confirm if the followed strategy was correct or if for instance there where some things that could have been done differently.
I think I should use more actions plans when it comes to long term projects, as I said before I trend to underestimate the amount of work of long processes and I end up stressed sometimes.

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Purpose: Whether or not implement the MAP testing in our MYP school
People: Science, Math and English teachers
Process: Evaluate the MAP testing according to different characteristics (price, user friendly, alignment with curriculum)
Product: Report on the alignment of MAP testing in relation to our curriculum
Preparation: Get the standards for all the subjects.
Get test mode from company in order to be able to test it during the meeting.
Practical concerns: Stable internet connection. One computer for teacher.
Pitfalls: If teacher don't bring their own computers we won't be able to try all the different tests.
Being a progressive test that adapts to the students' level not be able to evaluate the test for different students' level.

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My name is Jose Campillo and I'm from Barcelona.
I'm a thirty five years old passionate teacher. Apart from teaching I enjoy fishing, sports, series, or diving but probably my biggest passion is traveling. This passion for travel and knowing new places brought me to Indonesia four years ago, since then I've been living in Yogyakarta and teaching in an International School.
I am pretty easy going but if there is one thing I don't like is dishonesty. I therefore appreciate honest people. I also really enjoy to talk with an expert in something I am interested in. I value friendship and I, for instance, try to be there for my friends in case of need.
One curiosity about me is that even I am not someone who believes in religion, my students say that any Physics teacher can be, I am a converted muslim. This is due to the fact that in Indonesia marriage between religions is not legal and being my future wife muslim, I had to convert.

I've been teaching for the last since I was eighteen but for the first ten years I was a tutor for individual students and sometimes two or three. Is not until four years ago that I became a full time teacher.
I would consider myself a middle school Physics teacher because that is what I've done the most but at the moment, and for the last couple of years, I teach from grade 9 to grade 12. I teach Physics, TOK in DP and coordinate the Personal Project in MYP. In the past I taught grade 8 as well and I taught a year Science for Primary students in grade 6.
Thinking on the IB I feel that even after working for a while and attend some workshop I still feel that there a million things that I need to know and improve in order to fully embrace its philosophy and methodology. I would say a 2 from 1 to 5.
Nowadays I dedicate about half of time to DP and MYP but as my school implemented first the MYP I have more experience on this program

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Thinking and reflecting about successful school leadership. CSI strategy

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Thinking and reflecting about successful school leadership. CSI strategy

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I feel that there is any color comes to my mind when thinking on successful leadership, I would say the red, yellow and blue, the primary colors as the combination of them can create any color which is what a successful leader needs to do, adapt to any situation.

SYMBOL
For the symbol I choose the coach blackboard, a leader same as a coach needs to use different strategies to get everybody ready to perform as good as possible

IMAGE
I like this image with the human tower, I think that same as human towers education's target is to bring children to the top. For that in the human towers many people needs to be at the base and share responsibilities same as in the education. Using the human tower analogy, if all the weight is on just one person's shoulders the tower is going to collapse while if the weight is shared among many people the chances to succeed are higher

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• According to that Standard does the IB support any specific kind of leadership?

In my opinion this standards support a democratic leadership

• What challenges/implications does that standard create for schools?

I think that these standards implies several challenges for school. In the first place there needs to be a full understanding from all the parts of the responsibilities of each individual. School boards should understand that there are different decisions to take at different levels and that everybody should their areas and not interfere in the other's job.

Another important challenge is time allocation. Schools need to understand that in order to take decision as a group and there needs to be time allocated for meetings within the leadership team and as well with the rest of the team. Collaborative meetings meetings and teacher development days needs to be planned and allocated in order to develop fully the program. In order to support the program the curriculum coordinators needs to have a time allocated taken from the teaching, this is a key position that needs to support the entire team and schools needs to understand that doing this job effectively takes time.

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Did You Know 3.0 (Officially updated for 2012) HD

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How do expectations of good leadership differ between cultures?

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How do expectations of good leadership differ between cultures?

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1. What leadership styles do we associate with Western schools in general? What about Eastern schools?

If I think on the stereotypes that we have about Eastern world I would say that we associate Eastern schools with an autocratic leadership styles while Western schools are considered to be more democratic.

2. What leadership styles do we expect in international curriculum schools?

I believe that we expect to have a model that embrace both cultures.

3. What issues might arise about the differences between your previous answers?

There are several issues that can occur when trying to put this styles together. Today's education and specially the IB program is structured in a manner that multiple leadership positions are needed in different level. This together with collaborative planning makes that leaders should take a more democratic approach. I would say that outside the Eastern and the Western world I would also look at generational view leadership. From what I've seen in the past years there has been a change on the expectations and conditions of work for everybody at least in the first world. While before leaders where expected to be an authoritarian leader, nowadays people has different expectations. The transition between generations and different leaderships models is what I consider to complicated.

What I think as well is that International schools should have some internal standards on the kind of leadership they expect in order to try to match with the local culture.

Thinking on me, as a teacher I am a classroom leader, I believe it is important to know a bit about the Indonesian culture in order to know what is an appropriate approach to a situation. For example, Indonesian find extremely rude to embarrass someone in public, they call it ¨losing the face ¨. I've seen, opposing to what is our stereotype, a western teacher making this kind of things at my school and having problems with eastern students.

Flexibility is the key!

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Leadership is about making everybody paddle in the same direction and be willing to do it.
Jose Campillo

As someone who loves sport and probably because I am FC Barcelona supporter I would like to talk about Messi's leadership and Ronaldo's leadership in Madrid. I think they both represent two different styles of leadership. On one hand, Messi try to be someone that leads the team by making everybody participating and in the other Ronaldo shows his leadership by making everybody to play for him.

Thinking about the best leaders I had worked with in my live I think they all have common things, they all had knowledge about the section they led, they were sources of knowledge for the rest of the team member that could always approach them for help. They were also hard workers, people that everybody's could recognize their dedication. They were fair and just tough when justified, I think it is important as well that a leader can be tough when required.

Thinking about the worst leaders I think they all had in common arrogance, dishonesty bad temper and lack of knowledge in the field.

I believe the image that I feel more identified about leadership is the one where the group is in a circle. I think in a team even all takes different they should be all the same level, including the leader.

I identified as well with the one where the leader pulls the trolley but I think it would be better if everybody was pulling as a leader for me should pull the most but get help from everybody as well

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9 Reasons Great Teachers Make Great Leaders
This article explain the reasons why are great teacher can become a great leader. I fully agree with the text as teachers are people who are used to manage groups of people with different skills and motivations and try to get their best by pushing the students. A good teacher is also someone who is used to manage and prioritize long term goals on top of short term goals. Teachers are also used to work with a limited budget and try to get the most resources of it. A great teacher is also someone who is used to plan in order to meet deadlines and reflect on the process in order to see how can everything be improved as a teacher is a life long learner.
The first year of teaching career is a hard year and makes teachers people who are able to persevere. Teachers as well are people able to empathize.
There are other skills that a good teacher posses that any great leader wants as being a great communicator who is used to speak in public and synthetase  the most important points, it is also someone didactic with multiple resources to approach different people with different abilities.

Becoming a Teacher Leader

This second article talks about the experience of becoming a leader. I have to say that I feel that I am in a similar position to one the author express. Four years ago I started teaching in an international school and even I still felt lost two years later I was offered a leadership position as MYP coordinator. I have to say that I same as the author I feel that it wasn't my moment to do it but some people trusted in me and I took it. Even I have to still teach full time I have to say that same as Elena Aguilar I enjoy every day more my job. That part where you need to deal with humans and understand their situation and try to support them with the resources you have is a difficult but at the same time comforting. In the end I feel is just adding further pressure to what teaching is.

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• What characteristics should leaders have?
A good leader should be a charismatic person, someone that people can trust and be willing to work with. Someone that can inspire the team and be a model where others can look.
• Choose five characteristics a good leader should

have
Should be patient, intelligent, flexible, honest and sociable.

• Reflect about the trait theories considering the following questions:

• Are there universal traits?
• Can these traits predict leadership in all situations?
• Is there real correlation between leadership and traits? • Do those traits determine success or achievement?
• What about if you have those traits but no motivation?
Even I believe there are universal traits that a good leader should have as the ones I mention before I don't think they are a sufficient condition to predict leadership in all the situations. I believe that given those traits in a person the possibility of success is greater but there are multiple scenarios and who is able to lead a group of people doesn't necessarily inspire and succeed in a different group with a different scenario. Motivation of course is another key factor as a good leader should be inspiring and someone who doesn't show motivation won't be probably.
In the end leadership and success depends of several personal factors that combined with capacity to adapt to the situation will lead or not into success