LEADERSHIP for continuous quality of education development via school leadership: 2010-01-17

KEPIMPINAN dalam Islam.

Uli Al-Amri (Orang-orang yang diberi kuasa) - Merupakan suatu jawatan atau kedudukan dalam kepimpinan yang menjalankan tugas dan amanah untuk mentadbir dan mengendalikan urusan dunia. Oleh sebab itu adalah menjadi kewajipan kepada rakyat (orang-orang bawah tanggungjawabnya) mematuhi apa yang diperintahkan oleh Uli Al Amri sebagaimana firman Allah dalam surah An-Nisa’ ayat 59 yang bermaksud :“Wahai orang-orang yang beriman, taatlah kamu kepada Allah dan taatlah kamu kepada Rasulullah S.A.W dan kepada Uli Al-Amri ( orang-orang yang berkuasa) dari kalangan kamu. Kemudian jika kamu berbantah-bantah ( berselisihan ) dalam sesuatu perkara, maka hendaklah kamu mengembalikannya kepada (Kitab) Allah (Al-Quran) dan (Sunnah) Rasul-Nya jika kamu benar beriman kepada Allah dan hari akhirat. Yang demikian adalah lebih baik (bagi kamu), dan lebih elok pula kesudahannya.”

Para pemimpin atau ketua yang telah dilantik hendaklah melantik pembantu-pembantu yang jujur dan berkebolehan. Tanda-tanda kejujurannya ialah sentiasa bersikap beriman dan tidak mengampu sehingga membenarkan yang salah dan menyalahkan yang benar. Rasulullah S.A.W bersabda yang bermaksud:“Apabila Allah S.W.T menghendaki seseorang ketua itu menjadi ketua yang baik, ia akan jadikan pembantunya itu bersikap benar. Jika ia lupa ( lupa kepada Allah dan menyeleweng dari kebenaran ) ia mengingatkannya. Jika ia tidak lupa, ia memberi pertolongan dan bantuan kepada ketuanya itu. Jika Allah menghendaki ketua itu menjadi ketua yang lain daripada itu, dijadikan pembantunya seorang yang jahat, jika ia lupa tidak diingatkanya dan jika ia ingat tidak dibantunya” ( diriwayatkan oleh Abu Daud ).

Leaders are ALSO Followers;.

Virtually no one leads all of the time. Leaders also function as followers; everyone spends a portion of their day following and another portion leading.
Educating people to help them become productive followers and leaders is an important leadership responsibility. Any thoughtful leader has three top priorities:
*Accomplish the mission.
*Take care of your people.
*Create more leaders.
An article written by Sgt. 1st Class Michael T. Woodward for the U.S. Army's Infantry magazine in mid-1975 suggests the scope of a followership guidelines;
1. Know yourself and seek self-improvement.
2. Be technically and tactically proficient.
3. Comply with orders and initiate appropriate actions in the absence of orders.
4. Develop a sense of responsibility, and take responsibility for your actions.
5. Make sound and timely decisions and recommendations.
6. Set the example for others.
7. Be familiar with your leader and his job, and anticipate his requirements.
8. Keep your leaders informed.
9. Understand the task and ethically accomplish it.
10. Be a team member -- but not a yes man.
[Followership: An Essential Element of Leadership
by Pat Townsend and Joan Gebhardt:2009]

LEADERSHIP in practicing technology in school.

Today’s innovations in technology have provided valuable instructional tools for
education. School leaders/administrators play an essential role in whether these innovations
are being used effectively in their schools. Many state departments of education
have developed technology plans intended to promote the effective use of technology
and to aid administrators in implementing technology strategies that will
improve their school’s efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity. To emphasize the
administrators’ role in implementing technology into the schools, one state’s technology
plan underscores the need for administrators to initiate, promote, and support the
effective use of technology into their educational environments.
(Chien Y. & Vance A.D.-2006)

Sunday, 17 January 2010

NATURE PRESCHOOL PROJECT

Idea projek ini telah dicetuskan oleh Tuan Pengarah Pelajaran Labuan untuk diimplementasikan di pra sekolah. KSJK telah dipertanggungjawabkan untuk pelaksanaannya dan 5 buah sekolah rintis telah dipilih. Projek ini adalah di adaptasi daripada konsep FOREST KINDERGARTEN di Jerman, Scotland, UK, USA dan Taiwan. Di dalam konsep pra-sekolah begini, FOREST atau Hutan atau Alam Semulajadi dijadikan Alat Bantu Mengajar. Murid-murid pra-sekolah di bawa belajar mengenal huruf dan menikmati suasana pembelajaran melalui alam semulajadi dan bukan hanya berada di bilik darjah, walaupun bilik darjah dipenuhi dengan pelbagai informasi pembelajaran.

Sekolah-sekolah rintis terdiri daripada 5 buah pra-sekolah iaitu SK Pekan 1, SK Bukit Kalam, SK Lubok Temiang, SK Patau-Patau dan SK Sg.Bedaun. Maklumat awal berkaitan laman web yang boleh dilayari untuk mendapatkan informasi telah difaks ke sekolah-sekolah berkenaan pada Khamis, 14 Januari 2010.

Antara laman web yang boleh dilayari ialah:

i) http://www.foresteducation.org/
ii) http://www.rainforesteducation.com/
iii) http://www.foresthouse.herts.sch.uk/

iv) http://www.waldkinder-sg.ch/

Satu taklimat berkaitan projek ini akan diadakan pada 11 Februari 2010. Surat akan menyusul nanti.

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LEADERSHIP QUOTES for highly effective leaders

Strong Leaders use memorable leadership quotes as tools to support their mission, vision, strategy and expectations for quality performance .. some of those below;

”Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”- Conrad Hilton, Hilton Hotels

”The right man is the one who seizes the moment.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

”Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can’t light a fire with a wet match.”- Unknown

”Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”- John Maxwell

”A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”- Rosalynn Carter

”There comes a moment when you have to stop reviving up the car and shove it into gear.”- David Mahoney

”I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not.”- Lucille Ball

”Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”- John F. Kennedy

”Big thinking precedes great achievement”- Wilfred Peterson

”Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.”- Ronald Reagan

”Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of succes; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”- Stephen R. Covey

”A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”- John Le Care’

”I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”- Charles Schwab

”The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.”- General Colin Powell

”You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.”- Lee Iacocca ”Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”- Sam Walton ”

The price of greatness is responsibility.”- Winston Churchill ”The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”- John Maxwell

”Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”- Peter Drucker

”There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.”- Robert Half

”All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common; it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”- John Kenneth Galbraith ”The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”- Henry Kissinger

”Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”- General Colin Powell

”All leadership is influence.”- John C. Maxwell

”Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”- Dwight Eisenhower ”Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable.”- Ordway Tead ”There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”- Anthony Robbins

”Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”- Zig Ziglar

”Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”- Henry Ford

”If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Succesful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by disadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They are people who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be a matter of personality and character.”- John Viney ”Eagles don’t flock.”- Ross Perot

”Things may come to those who wait, but only what’s left behind by those that hustle.”- Abraham Lincoln

”Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.”- Unknown

”Anything worth doing, is worth doing now!”- Ralph Stayer ”Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who believed that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”- Bruce Barton

”There is no passion to be found in playing small – in settling for a life that is less than what you are capable of living”- Nelson Mandela

”It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”- Anthony Robbins

”The life which is unexamined is not worth living.”- Plato

”Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”- Anais Nin

”Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”- Robert Francis Kennedy

”It’s never crowded along the extra mile.”- Wayne Dyer ”Clear your mind of can’t.”- Samuel Johnson

”The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”- Dwight D. Eisenhower

”Beginning is half done.”- Unknown

Pemilihan KEPIMPINAN dalam Islam.

Rasulullah S.A.W sangat berhati-hati supaya pemimpin itu berada di tangan orang yang kuat dari segi ketaatan kepada Allah, kekuatan peribadi dan jasmani, kepintaran akal dan dihormati oleh rakyat. Baginda berhati-hati supaya jangan pemimpin itu jatuh ke tangan orang yang lemah sahsiahnya sehingga ia lemah melawan nafsunya. Jika ia seorang yang lemah melawan nafsunya sendiri, maka ia tidak dapat mematuhi Allah dan tidak terselamat dari ciri-ciri kehancuran seperti rasuah, maksiat dan lain-lain.

Abu Zar Al-Ghaffari meriwayatkan, saya berkata kepada Rasulullah S.A.W Tidakkah Tuan hendak melantik saya untuk mengetuai sesuatu urusan? Rasulullah S.A.W menepuk bahu saya dan berkata,” wahai Abu Zar, engkau adalah lemah, sedangkan pemimpin itu suatu amanah. Di hari kiamat ia adalah kehinaan dan penyesalan melainkan mereka yang mengambilnya dengan hak dan menunaikan kewajipan yang ditentukan di dalamnya”.

Abu Zar bukanlah seorang yang tidak taat kepada Allah dan dikuasai nafsu tetapi dia adalah seorang manusia yang lemah dalam mengambil tindakan, dia adalah seorang yang lurus hati dan mempunyai kelemahan yang menghalangnya bersikap tegas kepada kawan dan lawan. Itu pun dianggap oleh Rasulullah S.A.W apatah lagi orang yang kalah di hadapan nafsu, jahil dan tidak beramal.

Rasulullah S.A.W juga menetapkan dasar bahawa pemimpin itu tidak diberikan kepada orang tidak berkelayakan, yang meminta atau berusaha dengan tipu daya supaya dia dijadikan pemimpin, kerana sikap seperti itu akan menjadikan pemimpin itu satu rebutan dan lahir kegiatan serta pengaruh-mempengaruhi yang menyebabkan pertimbangan yang betul untuk lantikan menjadi kacau bilau dan menyeleweng. Oleh itu lantikan itu hendaklah dijalankan dengan pertimbangan yang objektif dan dengan hasrat yang bersih dan suci.

Kecemerlangan murid INDIKATOR Prestasi Ketua Sekolah

Kualiti kecemerlangan MURID kerana peningkatan prestasi Pengetua/Guru Besar - Kajian EPRD, KPM (2009)

Pemimpin sekolah mempunyai impak yang signifikan ke atas kecemerlangan murid…

Kepimpinan Instruksional
Memainkan peranan yang aktif dalam membentuk guru, merancang, mengkoordinasi dan menilai guru serta aktiviti P&P di sekolah

Agen Perubahan Utama
Menterjemahkan visi dan misi kepada seluruh warga sekolah bagi memastikan impak kemenjadian murid tercapai

Mewujudkan persekitaran yang kondusif
Menyediakan persekitaran sekolah yang kondusif dan menyokong proses Pengajaran & Pembelajaran (P&P) di dalam dan di luar bilik darjah

Berdasarkan analisis daripada 70 kajian awal yang melibatkan 2,194 sekolah; Peningkatan satu (1) standard deviation dalam kualiti kepimpinan akan memberi kesan kepada pencapaian murid sebanyak 10 percentile points (~ 0.25 standard deviation).