Friday, 18 October 2013

New insights from guest speakers

For the unit 'Leaders', our guest speaker was Mr. Aaron Jacob. He is the Dean of students and head of the dormitory teachers. He spoke about his role and responsibilities as a leader, what kind of challenges he faces and how he tries to overcome them. Students were very involved and asked their curious questions like: "Who is your role model?"
"What did you like and admire in your role model?"
Through the discussions, some essential qualities of a leader became evident like: honesty, caring, confidence etc
 
 
Ms Ally had come to grade4 to introduce students to Socratic seminars. She showed videos of different types of Socratic seminars and told the rules of having an environment where everyone listens when some one speaks and does not interrupt the speaker. Students had a Socratic seminar on the life of leaders. Through this exercise, students practiced being good listeners, thinkers and speakers. They also learnt to co-operate with each other, even while they disagree with each other.
 
 

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