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From my perspective, our principal    are both a manager and leader.

As a manager, the principal empower the others teacher to focus on their commitment to give our optimum effort and have a clear vision to maintain the credibility of the institute

Based on my observation, one of the characterics of leader that our leader showed is always let the other speak out their mind and consider our opinion regarding to the management of school and improve the strategies of learning. We do have clear communication among each other

Next, he lead by example not only by instructions and waiting for the result.Which mean, he also responsible toward the progress and inspire the others.

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From our point of view, our principal matches a few of the characteristics of educational leadership listed. He always tries to give motivation and inspiration to people. He post long paragraph of islamic content daily at 4am in staffs whtasapp group, give out bookmarks with motivational quotes, and do a lot of Islamic lectures. However, what's missing is probably the effectiveness of the method. It seems too routined, there's no sincerity in it. It's only good for documentation and publicity

We also noticed how he is showing favoritism towards our colleagues that are from a similar religious education background to him and those who are in power. He did try to build relationships with the staff by posting every staffs birthday card on their birthdates, but what's contradictory is he doesn't even recognize us in person and would always have a sour face on when interacting with us. We personally think that's not what's endorsed in Islam. There should be no discrimination and 'holier than thou attitude' from people who are in the position of a leader.

And yes, going to work is personally dreadful for us. The wonderful students and like-minded colleagues are probably the only reasons that keep us sane and grounded.

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In my opinion, I see my principal as a manager. As the head of our institution, he ensures stability by upholding the norms and standards. He admires competency and discipline from his staff. He makes sure that everything runs smoothly, putting out fires when they start to spread. He is more of an overseer than someone who is directly involved with planning. For example, teachers are more involved in planning with our Head of Department and Head of Academic Affairs. We do however need the green light from him in order to execute any decisions.

It’s not to say that he doesn’t have any leadership qualities, but in my opinion he leans towards having more managerial traits.

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Siti Nurul ‘Aqeelah Mohamed & Nur Asma Syafiqah Md Baliya

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Assalamualaikum and hi all 😊

We both teach in the same school, and both of us believe that our principal is definitely as leader. Hence, here are some of the reasons why:

1. Charismatic & inspirational:
This is closely related to the way he delivers his speech and the way he inspires people with his words. He manages to inspire teachers to introduce change and challenge the unbreakable ‘unpleasant culture’ that was once in our school. He motivates teachers to believe that we can be more than just teachers, we can facilitators, coaches and leaders in our own ways.

2. Visionary:
We believe he always looking into the future, by always planning and encourages teachers to see things ahead. Especially in terms of students’ skill development & academic achievements. He has a deep interests in developing leadership skills among students, which is why he aspires each student to at least have one leadership role in the school. We did this thing call ‘Headcount’, which I think other MRSM teachers would be familiar with too - this programme which enables teachers to build relationship with students by communication and looking into their academic goals while they are in the school.

3. Facilitates:
This is something we see a lot from him, where he facilitates us, teachers in making up our decisions about things. Which normally, lots of principal just decides by giving their final word & things get done. Not in his case, he actually coaches us, might not be all the time though, but, whenever us, teachers need it the most.

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Both of us are from different MRSM and we would like to give an opinion on both our principals.

Saiful (AM2107009868):

I see my principal more of a leader.

He always plays the rule by the book and quite stern about it. Every outcome he expects from our meetings and discussions are all analytical and always logical. Although he has just transferred to my school, I can already see some improvement that he made.

The thing that I clearly see is his compassion towards his job. He understands that there are a lot of work to do, and he is handling it well. He leads by example, and also possesses the fatherly trait, that everyone likes about him.

Aisyatul ‘Aqilah (AM2107009869):

I see my principal as both manager and leader.

He will act as manager when it comes to the target of certain programs or policies. For example, for our KPI to have enough hours of training. He has conducted and manages to make sure all teachers reach the minimum target.

He also will act as a leader when he is willing to make changes from what or things that have been a norm in the school which burden the teachers and staff. He is also very humble and friendly, which makes new teachers able to freely share their ideas and concern.

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Based on my experience working with my principal, I think his characteristic shows that he is more of a leader mainly because he always inspire, approachable and has a long-term vision for the benefit of the school. It’s not only apparent to the teachers and staffs but also the students who really respect him. Whenever he wants to remind us for any mistakes or inappropriate actions, he explains it by relating it to stories of the sahabah and make sure that we will get motivated to do our best in any task or responsibilities given.

If there is any problems in our organisation, my principal will never leave us behind. He will always ask for any suggestion to improve or to solve any kind of problems. Then, we will discuss it together and come out with the best solution for all.

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From our point of view, our principal is definitely a leader.

Our principal has set a target of excellent results in the academic field that teachers and students need to achieve. For example, setting an A results (60%) for an English subject in SPM. However, our principals do not manage academically related programs. Our principal also changes the strategy to increase the teachers' skills on teaching performance. She gives detailed remarks on what way we can improve ourselves.

In matters related to administration and human resources, she is seen as inspirational as she helps each department understand its roles. She has brilliant communication skills as she is diligent in sharing details with her teams and always keeps us informed on what is happening. When it is time to make changes or decisions, she always question before accepting anything especially the 'what' and 'why'.

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We both believe our principals shares the same traits i.e leadership. In giving an order, they seems like to delegate all the instructions through vice principals instead themselves. It's quite rarely hear an order directly from principals.  But they really care the results. Another things, as a leaders they always being supportive. For example, everyday they will help the warden to wake the students up to perform their subuh prayer. Plus, they identifies every weakness that we have as wardens. Clearly this is leadership character.

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Nur Syamimi binti Ab Rasid & Norizan binti Ramli

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In our opinion, our principal is more like manager type person.

1) As we can see, he likes bureaucratic management style. Everything must do paper works and we have to face lots of bureaucratic procedure before one action can be taken. Sometimes it is quite time consuming for one decision to be taken.

2) Beside, our principle tend to minimize every risk that may come across. He is very careful with managing accountability  to shareholders, for example in muafakat. He like everything around the boundaries that have been set.

Overall, what we can say that our principal is very wise person while making a decision & managing the work.

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We are from different MRSM but after further discussion, we concluded that our both principals at our workplaces are a true leader as they have those similar characteristics. The main characteristics portrayed by them are high vision, good motivation and great teamwork.

1) For vision, it can be seen clearly through their leadership as they focused to be the best among the best. They aim to place the organizations under their management to be at the top ranking school in Malaysia. It can be seen through their approaches on how they managed the organizations.

2) In terms of motivation, they show great motivation and empowerment to challenge the norm. Their motivation is to develop excellent students which give benefits towards the nation for example participate the innovation competition.

3) Next, our principals are also a good leader because they encourage us to have a good teamwork. They always said that any job is better done in team instead of individually so we can share our opinions and delegate tasks equally to produce the best outcomes.

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Hi Assalamualaikum. For your information, me and Ameer we're from different school but we agreed that our Principle is a leader because they share something in common.

1. They do not only give us task and let us find out ourself on how to do it but they also show us and give coaching/guideline on how to manage certain things especially when we have to handle school programs.

2. They always motivate young teachers by giving examples and solutions on how to deal with problematic students based on their past experiences and discuss on how we can adapt it with current Pdpr session .

3. They also open up to any suggestion or discussion in term of duty, workload and any problem that teachers faced.

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NUR ATHIRAH BINTI AHMAD SUBIAN & NURUL HANIS BINTI MAT ZAINI

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NUR ATHIRAH BINTI AHMAD SUBIAN & NURUL HANIS BINTI MAT ZAINI

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Both of us come from different school. In our opinion, our principal are a leader. This is because :

1. She set how things should be but let the teachers do it freely as long as don't breach the guidlines. For example, as the host for one students' programme for all MRSM, she wants the certificate to have our school logo and programme's logo but she allows the teacher to do it based on their creativity.

2. My principal has long term vision. For example, she facilitates our school with a green-screen room (previously a normal classroom) provided with ring light, studio softbox umbrella and other tools for filming for our SMART Team (kind of IT Team). So the teachers can make use of the room to record lesson's video using green screen. The videos can be used as learning aid.

3) He has a clear vision and willing to hear other teachers ideas as well as parents ideas especially regarding to the students academic. For example, if the results of the students are not as expected or we can say that it is not the result that we aimed for, he is willing to hear the ideas on how to improve instead of blaming the teachers.

4) He has the ability to take the right decision at the right time. He thinks hard and long before taking a decision to make sure he can comes up with the best ideas. And he is confidence enough to ensure that other follow his commands.

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Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone !

Based on our point of view,  our principal tend to a leader because she has a objective when she doing something and train the other teachers to do so.

For example, English department must create a goal plan to achieve more straight A's students in  SPM. She might be firm for some certain cases but mostly she can be a listener and giving good opinion to us.

In addition, she also showing and remind  us that integrity is very important in your work. She also an approachable person when she used open door concept. We can meet her anytime at office when we have a problem or a discussion.

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Muhamad Amzar Asyraf bin Sarikal Anuar & Nelson Pady Tumit

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Muhamad Amzar Asyraf bin Sarikal Anuar & Nelson Pady Tumit

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First of all, our current principal just transferred to our school a few months ago. So, we will give our opinion based on our previous principal. In our opinion, in general our previous principal had both of the characteristics which were as a leader and manager. But we saw our previous principal was more on a leader based on the following:

1)      When we made mistakes, he will invited us to meet him personally and told us what went wrong. He will not criticize us in public as it will discourage us.

2)      When executing something our previous principal like to propose a new change.

3)      Apart from that, he was also a considerate person as when implementing rules and regulation he will tried to  consider the availability of the teacher to cope with the rules and regulation.

4)      Furthermore, for the sake of the student’s welfare our previous principal willing to break certain rules.
5)    He likes to promote teamwork when organized an activity.

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Nur' Aeleef Nirwan & Zarifahanis - Pair Work discussion

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Nur' Aeleef Nirwan & Zarifahanis - Pair Work discussion

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For both of us, our principal (Tuan Haji Mohd. Nizar) is definitely a leader. This is because:

1. He is a good listener due to his widsom. He doesn't justlisten to the teachers' problems in school, he also comes up with proper solutions and guidance to assist us when in trouble. Plus, he is a great mentor as well. He uses his wisdom and teaching experience to guide new teachers the best way to teach in a classroom, as well as giving freedom to them (and to us) about the best way to teach. This make the new teachers to be fully inspired to be a prolific teacher as him someday.

2. He is a facilitator and willing to take risks to bend certain rules for the benefits of his subordinates. Instead of paying attention to unnecessary protocols and regulations that has little to no effect in certain works / events / activities, he scrap them off and implement easier methods & rules so that both the teachers and students can give a better commitment with higher effectiveness and outcomes at the end. For him, certain protocols, rules and regulations are more like "cosmetics" that serves little to no purposes & sometimes make things more complicated than it should be. For instance, a more casual style of work environment, flexible hours in the evening session, only focusing the main flow and itinerary in school events, etc..

3. He is a caring leader and loves to build relationships with people. Not just being a family figure with his subordinates (like a big brother towards teachers and staff; father figure towards the students), he also cares about other people in the surrounding community. Since his arrival to our college, he likes to be engaged with the people here, as well as organizing charity fund and distribute basic needs to the community that lives around the school as well as to those who in need. He also always ensure that people in our organization are in good conditions in terms of basic needs like food supply. This action shows that he is very attentive towards the well-being of the people around him. So, not just people in the organization, but people in the surrounding community also get benefits from his leadership. He always believes that engaging with the society is beneficial for the spiritual self-learning as a better form of a human being.

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Based on ours opinions, ours principle
has both manager and leader charecteristics.

1) In term of decision making. Most of discussions that involved with our principle he attend makes an decision based on their own although there were so many ideas comes out during brainstorming session. This was reflect to educational  management.

2) Ours principle was proactive person, by its own, he will find an activities or tournament and then he will encourage the students to participate on that particular activities. At the end, he will look  up at the students achievements rather than their results. This characteristics  reflect to a leader.

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NORIZAN BINTI MOHD RASHID (AM2107009829) & NUR ALIAH BINTI AZMAN (AM2107009833)

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NORIZAN BINTI MOHD RASHID (AM2107009829) & NUR ALIAH BINTI AZMAN (AM2107009833)

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Our newly appointed principal who came in early April 2021 gave a big impact. In our opinion, our principal is a leader for several reasons;

1) As we joined our school in 2019, most of the staff and teachers usually park their motorcycles and cars around the foyer as they are easy to reach but it looks unorganized. The first task he asked us to do is to demolish this culture by asking us to park our vehicles at the parking lots.

2) We still remember our first assembly held, where all the students and teachers were listening to his first speech where he used the word "Ayahanda" to address himself and gave a warm speech that every student will remember. As time goes, we firmly said that our principal has his charm and appeals to the heart of every student.

3) In the first principal teacher's meeting, the principal showed himself as an example of how teacher should dress and he cannot tolerate those who are always late. As before, minority teachers is not dressed properly and came late. Nowadays, there are improvements in teachers' attire and attendance even to attend an online meeting. No more latecomers!

4) In terms of teachers' welfare, our principal works together with the school's staff to settle down some renovation issues and wifi issues as he delegates the school resource (money) wisely. He also works on our school's new image as more paints coming in.

For all the reasons, we believe our principal is a leader!

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Nadia Aqila Roseland & Nur Arifah Daud (Directors of KPM)

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Nadia Aqila Roseland & Nur Arifah Daud (Directors of KPM)

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My teammate and I come from 2 different colleges but we did discuss the similarities that both our directors have (leadership qualities), and the similarities are as follows:

1) Both of our directors are actually new to our colleges (recently transferred) and just within a few months, they have managed to introduce new approaches to all the staff in the college, specifically in relation to being involved in conveying latest updates or external information that might benefit the students or staff (e.g. financial aid for struggling students, PSAs on health). We saw a change where the new directors would always forwarding us emails of necessary information related to us.

2) In regards ro taking a new direction, both our directors are also value our opinions and thoughts even though we are still new teachers. There were several instances where our directors would personally ask our viewpoints regarding our teaching experiences. This also makes our directors seem more approachable since they are open to hearing our perspectives, regardless of our level of teaching experiences.

3) Both directors are proactive, where they get really involved in staff activities and when they see things that need change, the change is implemented without delay. Our directors valua achievements hence all achievements are rewarded no matter how small.

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Both of us agree to say that our principal have both manager and leader behaviour.

MANAGER
1. When we talk about manager behaviour, she have the characteristics of manager like always make a decison for my school. Her decision will be the final one for any program or project. For example, she made a decision on the gift that we are giving to the students for good achievement in academics.

LEADER
1. We both also think our principal is the leader because she well known as a visionary person. She always set something for a long term period. As an example, she aim to make my school become the best school in state by 2023. She sets the plan and leads direction for teachers to make it.
2. Approachable with open door concept where we can simply meet, having a discussion in her room if we are facing any problems.

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Mohd Fahmi Mohd Shukor & Norsyahidah binti Md Saleh

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Mohd Fahmi Mohd Shukor & Norsyahidah binti Md Saleh

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We think my principle is the manager type of person. For some reason he is the one who is making a lot of decision by his own judgement and he has the tendency to make everybody
follow his order. Thus it fits the appeals to head criteria.

In terms of risk, we can see that he is likely to try and minimize risk. For an example, he avoid making different approach when the head quarters provide a guideline. Recently, he orders us to come to school even though pandemic is getting worrying as the number of cases rises so quickly. When we discuss in the Whatsapp group about our concern, he said that this is the rule and guideline that was provided by the Majlis Keselamatan Negara.

His vision also is a short term vision. As I was in the meeting, he said he wants the details of every activity that was plan this year and the plan is to accommodate for the each form. It was not a planned for future situation.

He required to follow the rules to be at our station even though there is nobody there in the school. He would like us to be 33 km within the school range too.

In a nutshell, we conclude that our principal is a manager type of person because he fits all the criteria that was mention in your slide. His not change things but he keeps thing stable.

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In our opinion, my school principal is a leader because

1. He is a considerate person. He willingly change our certain rules and regulation in order to reduce the burden of teacher. For example, he decide to loosen the teaching schedule for all teachers.

2. He is not a biased person. He treat all teachers (senior/junior) as one. He accept proposal from everyone and will decide which one is the best.

3. He always gives a counselling to teacher who has a personal or working problem. He gives advice or solutions for their problem.

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In our opinion , our principle is a leader because he show us good example and support by taking care of our welfare and help us solve whenever problems by giving ideas and solution.Throughout his acquaintance as a school principal and administrator, he was a dedicated, committed and courageous person to make changes. each problem raised will be given an accurate solution answer even if it contradicts the system.

He is also welcoming new ideas and opinions from all teachers in decision making by listening and discussing all issues happened at schools. By that, he makes us trust and influence us with good environment.

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Hafiz Muzahid and Noor Fahmi Zaharuddin

In our opinions, we do think our principal as a manager because:

1. He follows and endorse the old norm.
2. he keeps the status quo intact and does not bring changes to ensure stability and standards imposed by the predecessor.
3. He follows the circular provided by the HQ to the tee without making any appropriate adjustments suitable to the surrounding working environment.

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DISCUSSION 1: HOW WE SEE OUR PRINCIPLE AS?(NORFARADHIAH RUSLAN AND NAQIUDDIN NORZAIN)

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DISCUSSION 1: HOW WE SEE OUR PRINCIPLE AS?(NORFARADHIAH RUSLAN AND NAQIUDDIN NORZAIN)

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Hi Assalamualaikum everyone.
So, both of us see our principal as a leader more than as a manager. We believe our principal, Mr Amir, fulfilled most of the characteristics of education leadership. First of all, he loves to motivate the teachers and staffs in every speech and meeting he attended to. He always give us advice and positive remarks to boost our confidence and performances, and at the same time he inspires us to do better in work diligently. In addition, he also a good listener. He listen to the teachers suggestion and presentation well and give feedback on them during meeting. He also able to build good relationship with all the staff and teachers, although he new here, we are pleasantly welcomed him as a leader.

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In our opinion, our principal is a leader as he is visionary. He always listens to teachers' and students' ideas in order to make teachers and students gets comfortable and also feel motivated to come and stay in schools. He also suggests to plant durians for future benefits to school as we are in Balik Pulau, so it would be a loss if we did not make full of it.

Next, he has an exemplary leadership qualities for others to follow, including staff and students alike. He also is being fair and consistent in handling situations.

He is an effective principal by being a bridge builder. He able to deal with difficult situations by effectively connecting to many groups of people, which includes teachers, students, parents and also proffering solutions to those situations and find ways to earn their trust.

Our school principal is an excellent listener too. He always be prepared to deal with whatever situations may arise. He can disarm most difficult situations simply by showing care and willingness to hear them out.

Last but not least, our school principal is like to empower others. He sees the greatness in others and do what they can to bring that greatness out of them.

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Based on our point of view, we see our principle as a leader more than a manager. He is a full of motivation. He able to motivate his coworker or his teachers by landing his ears. Sometimes when the teacher has problems, we try to discuss the problem, then he tries to come out with the solution that he thinks suitable for the situation as he is a counsellor at past. Besides he also able to build a good relationship with his staff by being nice with us. He just like friends to us. There is no like boundary boss- worker at our school. It’s make us comfortable to work under his guidance. He such an inspiration to us. he always gives us opportunities to work with our own way as long as we can achieve the objective. We hope that we can be like him in the future.

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Assalamualaikum, Its me Hadi and Ramadhan. It’s been our third year work as a teacher in MRSM. From our perspective, we have worked with a very good leader over the years. It is because he can influenced people under his leadership and show a good example for others. Besides that, he is willing to guide us as a new teacher and put his trust on us.

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We have different Principles (a he and a she), but both of them have something in common... and based on this common thing, they are managers because..

1) He & she are firm with decision making. They make sure that things are done right, so opinions are second to what has been set as guidelines. For example, they are really firm in terms of making decisions, i.e. managing the financial part and expenses for the school fund.

2) The principles are firm because they always refer to the guidelines and 'pekeliling' when its comes to approving any activities for the student and also for the facilities upgrade.

In the nutshell, the principals are managers as they are particular in controlling and managing as to follow the rules/guidelines that have been given by the authorities/HQ.

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Siti Aishah binti Mohd Arsad -AM2107009852
Nurliyana binti Md Mokhtar- AM2107009883

In our opinion, we see that our Principal is more a leader type. It is because he motivates us to make changes for the better achievement by giving the guideline. For example, he gives better solutions in handling student attendents in pdpR lesson such as visiting their home to make sure what is the exact problem of the students. He also likes to mention about the importance of having a strong bond in a team. He will make sure in every week, there will be at least one time meeting between staff members and teachers for the better team relationship.

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In our opinion, our principal, Mr Zeidi is indeed a LEADER. He is very welcoming. He is ready to listen to any new ideas from teachers, he facilitates the ideas into a decision and makes us feel we are a part of the decision making process. When previous batch SPM result was out, he highlighted all the achievements and appreciate the hardworks of the teachers. Due to his credibility and warm heart, he inspire us to be a better version of ourselves and move forward in our career.

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Jazilah and Atiqah - Pair Work Discussion

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In our opinion, our principal is a leader because
1) He gives room to his teachers to execute the tasks given freely as long as they follow the assigned guidelines.
2) He's willing to make changes to the school policy in hopes for better results.
3) He listens to the teachers' needs (approving a day off due to personal reasons, etc) and try his best to cater them as long as the reasons are logical.

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How do you see your Principal? Is he a manager or a leader? Explain your answer.