Body III

Required skills for educators; Educational leadership

As students develop their leadership skills through education, “educators” must possess leadership as educators. Educators are not merely teachers. They might be the adults around children since all adults can be teachers for children. Educators must be careful of their behavior and action. This leadership for educators are called educational leadership. Some skill should be taught to students for leadership development. Main three skills of educational leadership are

I, Self-management and self-understanding

Self-management involves self-development. In order to achieve it, the following abilities are required.

A, Knowledge to judge everything and have an insight of it

B, Skills to balance the internal power such as communication skills of clear massage and listening, facilitation skill to equip necessity for the best performance, and management skill to make attunement

C, Attitude which means commitment to purpose and value.

D, Creativity to develop insight and make connection instead of old one.

E, Consciousness which is the concept to develop the capacity to understand different individuals.

What is more required is self-acceptance which accepts yourself as your identity. Since self-development is developing your strength and modifying your weakness, the acceptance of yourself is necessary. This process of accepting identity will be self- development. What the self-management means is understanding you and developing yourself. By understanding yourself, you will be able to “manage yourself” to the purpose. This is connected to self-understanding of your personality, sensing, feelings, thinking and judging (Tamlinson 1-2).

II, Emotional intelligence

Emotional intelligence is the ability to sense, understand and manage individuals' “feeling” including you. Then, what required for emotional intelligence?

A,“Emotional literacy” to be truly honest yourself. Sense your and others' inner mind and understand them.

B, “Emotional fitness” to get along with human relationship from the aspect of emotion.

C, “Emotional depth” to build your core personality and raise your potential.

D, “Emotional alchemy” to get opportunities and compete for the future.

What is the most important is communication because it is directly connected to all of four essentials (Tamlinson 22-23, Sergiovanni 40-41).

III, Managing stress

These all are connected to your management of stress. The causes of stress are unsatisfied needs of yourself. That can be emotional-physical needs; needs for secure, psycho-social needs; needs for connection to the outside, personal-intellectual needs; needs for new finding or creative strategy.  To satisfy your needs, firstly identify and clarify your needs. Then, understand your needs and find a solution. It is not difficult to find solution because stress is caused because you can solve it if you did as what you want. The effective solution is doing the conceptual approach to the needs, or psychological approach to alternative activities. This psychological approach is to do something fun for you to satisfy yourself instead of unsatisfied your needs (Tamlinson 78-80).