Hi all, its my turn now... i would try to summarize all the points and make it short and sweet. Basically today we did some gender and cultural narrative lecture. I didn't quite understand this lecture but i could see that the when the speakers ask a question, there is always people answering those question. But to my disappointment, I didn't see any Singaporean answering the questions and mostly were Australian and Indian. They participated actively in this program whereas Singaporean were stoning down there. I think it is because some of us do not understand the topic or they have no opinion or shy.
Second activity was a talk about trinity academic programs. It briefly say about trinity college and the curriculum. I think that the Australian could ask question and answer back the speaker from the previous lecture so fast was because of what they had learned in their English. In their English there is drama which teaches people to be more confident and ask questions if they don't know instead of just keeping the questions to themselves.
Third activity was the leadership project planning which we are to be in our groups and discuss what we are going to do if we are the UN general secretary for one day. At first, we chose increase of population as most of the members(3 boys 7 girls) agree with it and there is many things to talk about. The girls, stand a majority, was discussing and about the effects of increase in population. Boys was kind of left out in that discussion. One of my friend(male), was trying to tell the girls that it was impossible to do this topic in detailed in 5 -7 minutes, however everyone ignored him and staying in their conversation. He repeated again but he raised his voice and one girl was unhappy with him saying that there is no need to raise his voice. After that, he was getting more and more stress as maybe he is aiming for perfect, i guess. This discussing continues and we cut down to two sub topic of it and it cant get to any where. My friend get pissed and left the place. After he left, i tried to get the group to listen to me and cut it down to one specific topic. From my view, as a good leader, you might not need to participate everything actively but you must participate when it is time to to control the group and make it continues on. Mainly, a leader should not get their emotion to control us as it would bring us to the wrong track. A quote from Solon, "learn to obey before you command" how i interpret this quote was that everyone had to be a follower at first before becoming a leader and when we are leader we must also learn to listen to others instead of insisting your way and commanding through the followers.
The forth activity was to watch a movie called zoolander. It was a entertaining show and thats all for tonight. Good night friends...
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I agree with Yan Yang that too many cooks spoil the broth. In an event there must be leaders yes, however there must also be followers at the same time. If too many people takes the initiative to lead, it causes conflict and disrupts the programme from being running successfully.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand with many followers and no leaders, there would also be confusion as the majority won't know what to do and people become lost.
Hence in my opinion, i think that communication is important and there must be a balance in leadership. A good leader is one who follows by example and also leads by example at the same time, forming an atmosphere where other people feel comfortable to participate in.
Thats all i wish to say. Night nights everyone~
It takes 2 hands to clap. A good classs is one where there is active participation from the audience. Many good universities in Australia and the US Ivy League universities like Princeton, Yale and Harvard are like that. When a question is asked by the lecturer, you will see many hands up waiting to contribute to the discussion. That means we have to be quick to think on our feet at a split second. That is the trademark of a leader.
ReplyDeleteAlways good to remind ourselves also to be quick to listen too and contribute relevantly to add to the richness of the discussion. Do not feel intimidated that your ideas are not good enough. You are already amongst the best that Ngee Ann has as the school sends you for this summer programme. Have the guts to step up and deliver.
Good exposure for you guys/gals in the classes in Trinity College. I believe if you work hard, many of you will get the chance to earn a scholarship to study in a prestigious overseas university in the future and be active participants in the class.
Well hi guys, i also feel that we have to learn to participate more or we will miss out in a lot and end up learning nothing when we reach.
ReplyDeleteI know this as i did not participate in a lot of stuff when we first reached here and when i think of the things i missed, i feel regretful that at that time i did not have the courage to join in.
Well to be a good leader, sometimes you also need to be a good follower. This way you can learn from the person you are following and if the person did something that made you feel bad, you can learn from their mistakes and remind yourself not to do the same thing to your followers next time.
Well this is the end of my comment and our activities are starting soon and i hope that everyone will have a great time today!
Hi guys, as a good leaders we must speak out our suggestions when a question is given. And i agree with Dun Kai. I know that we might be shy but lets all try to as at least one question for the next few days here.
ReplyDeleteI taken away the most was the Leadership Project as my group was settled down quickly and we got into your different groups to do our research. As a leader, we must use every minute and seconds preciously so as to complete the given task as soon as possible and with a good outcome.
That's all from me today. Hope everyone is still coping with the weather, time and activities here. Let's enjoy ourselves. :)
hey all. i thought that ytd's first lecture was interesting as i did not fall asleep! it was about gender stuff, that we cannot despise ppl with two gender's nature. we should learn to accept them.
ReplyDeletenext up, was the trinity academic programme. singapore's education system's core curriculum is social studies while the core curriculum here is english which includes drama. i think its good as it teaches students to express their thoughts and feelings better. thats something that singaporeans are not very good at.
lastly, the movie we watched was really funny!! but when the show ended, i found that it was really dumb. so yeah, only for entertainment purpose.
thats all. bye!
Hey all, as a leader i think that we should not have too much conflicts between ourselves as it may ruin the whole plan for the group. And i agree with jingyi as too mnay cooks spoil the broth. If everyone takes the initiative to lead, then no one will want to give in to one another which would definitely result in a conflict.
ReplyDeleteAlso, i got an insight of how the education system in trinity works. It is a totally different system from Singapore and it really allows students to build confidence during normal lessons. That's all for me.
Hellos!
ReplyDeleteI agree that during the lecture that the Australians had much more participation. I think that it's due to their culture and they were brought up to speak up and be confident of themselves. I noticed that in summer school the australians rarely have low self-esteem.
Maybe we can learn from them.
Yup, that's all. So good night!!! :D
hey everyone :)
ReplyDeletei agree with yan yang that one must become a follower first before becoming a leader. I feel that it is extremely important for a leader to listen to suggestions and ideas apart from their own.
Also, surprisingly, i was actually intrigued by the talk about the academic programs in trinity college. i got to understand more about the education system in Australia.
that's all i guess. :) (sorry for the late comment)