Junyi Centre for Teaching & Learning: The Leader in Me
Throughout 2015, in partnership with The Alliance Cultural Foundation (ACF), Paradigm Education led a series of The Leader in Me (TLIM) workshops in Taitung and Hualien. TLIM model, inspired by Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People book, aligns directly with ACF’s mission for developing leadership and life skills essential to the 21st century as well as ACF’s goals for Junyi Centre for Teaching and Learning (JCTL) – a centre created for remote education, for its educators to develop professionally, to be facilitated to make change within themselves then to their students. JCTL values and centres its curriculum on Waldorf education, Junyi Academy, innovative teaching, the arts and humanities as well as the development of character where TLIM falls under.
A model designed to be assimilated in schools, TLIM believes every child can lead their own lives, and aims to inspire leadership and life skills to students as young as Grade 1. TLIM aspires to not only transform the child, but the entire school. It believes that changing the paradigm is key; the paradigm that everyone can be a leader, that everyone has genius, that change starts within oneself, that educators should empower students to lead their own learning, and the paradigm of education to develop the whole person.
With over 2000 TLIM schools worldwide in 35 countries, TLIM focuses on instilling responsibility, accountability, problem solving, adaptability, communication, initiative and self-direction, creativity, cross-cultural skills, and teamwork. Its transformation occurs in two stages – the first, to transform the school faculty and its parents through on-site coaching and practice; the second, to transform the students with guidance and ongoing reminder from school faculty and parents in everyday life. With TLIM, ACF hopes to lead schools into its first stage – to a united culture, vision, to build positive peer relationships, communication, teamwork, for its faculty and parents to be able to make positive change in its activities, teaching methods, curriculum, to be able to better identify student talents, and to lead students to TLIM’s second phase – developing responsibility, accountability.
As part of JCTL, Paradigm Education conducted a 3-day workshop in Hualien for principals, teachers, and parent representatives of four schools. ACF hopes for the schools to support, learn, and improve together in their path to school transformation. ACF hopes that through the program, teachers can re-ignite their passion for teaching and have continuous growth to prepare students for their future ahead.
A model designed to be assimilated in schools, TLIM believes every child can lead their own lives, and aims to inspire leadership and life skills to students as young as Grade 1. TLIM aspires to not only transform the child, but the entire school. It believes that changing the paradigm is key; the paradigm that everyone can be a leader, that everyone has genius, that change starts within oneself, that educators should empower students to lead their own learning, and the paradigm of education to develop the whole person.
With over 2000 TLIM schools worldwide in 35 countries, TLIM focuses on instilling responsibility, accountability, problem solving, adaptability, communication, initiative and self-direction, creativity, cross-cultural skills, and teamwork. Its transformation occurs in two stages – the first, to transform the school faculty and its parents through on-site coaching and practice; the second, to transform the students with guidance and ongoing reminder from school faculty and parents in everyday life. With TLIM, ACF hopes to lead schools into its first stage – to a united culture, vision, to build positive peer relationships, communication, teamwork, for its faculty and parents to be able to make positive change in its activities, teaching methods, curriculum, to be able to better identify student talents, and to lead students to TLIM’s second phase – developing responsibility, accountability.
As part of JCTL, Paradigm Education conducted a 3-day workshop in Hualien for principals, teachers, and parent representatives of four schools. ACF hopes for the schools to support, learn, and improve together in their path to school transformation. ACF hopes that through the program, teachers can re-ignite their passion for teaching and have continuous growth to prepare students for their future ahead.