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This semester I had a chance to take an NCLC course called NCC 395: Leadership in the 21^st Century The main textbook in which we based our class discussions on was called The Leadership Challenge.by Kouzes and Posner. I really enjoyed this text because it highlights all the attributes of a good leader in which I can apply to my concentration; education. The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership are:

1. Model the Way

2. Inspire a Shared Vision

3. Enable Others to Activities

4. Encourage the Heart.

5. Challenge the process

These five practices will help me become a good teacher that will make a difference in a child's life.

One of the many theorists in education that I respect is Howard Gardner who focused on multiple intelligences in children. He wanted people to not just look at the world but rather contribute to help change it. He believed that our intelligence “was a single entity that was inherited” and it could be trained to learn anything. Our intelligence is the “capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural setting”. Gardner believed there are seven intelligences, in which two are valued in schools, three in arts, and two apply to personal intelligences. These intelligence rarely works independently but rather used at the same time. They complement each other as people develop their skills or solve problems using these intelligences.

1. Linguistic intelligence: The ability to learn written and spoken languages and use it to reach certain goals. We affectively use this intelligence to expressive ourselves “rhetorically or poetically” and also to remember any information we take in.

2. Logical-mathematical intelligence: Analyzing problems logically, using mathematical operations to solve problems, and investigate issues scientifically by detecting patters together with reasonings and logical thinking.

3. Musical intelligence: Being able to perform, compose, and appreciate musical patterns and theories. According to Gardner, musical intelligence is parallel to linguistic intelligence.

4. Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence: Using your mind to coordinate bodily movements to solve problems. Your mind and physical activities work together.

5. Spatial intelligence: be able to recognize patters of wide spaces and more confined areas.

6. Interpersonal intelligence: Be able to empathize and sympathize for others by understanding their desires, intentions, and motivations. Having this intelligence will help people to work effectively with others. Leaders, as well as teachers, need to have this intelligence.

7. Intrapersonal Intelligence: Be able to understand yourself, your intentions, motivations, and desires.

As an educator, ones must acknowledge that each child will have these intelligences differently. Basing on these differences, educators develop new approaches that could meet the needs of their students in their classroom.

Lastly, a great teacher that I respect and admire is Jesus Christ. He sets great examples for his followers of how to be a great teacher and leader. He was on his knees washing other's feet to show that a great leader is not to be served but to serve other in great love. As a teacher, you don't hope for your influenced on your students to benefit you but rather for the society.

“ You, my brothers, were called to be fre. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.” - Galatians 5:13 (NIV)

Works Cited:

1.. Kouzes, James M. and Barry Z. Posner (2002) The Leadership Challenge, San Fransisco: John Wiley & Sons.

2. http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm

3. Bible. NIV.