I hope everyone had a productive week. This week truly was a marathon week for me PTA meetings, Principal learning meetings, Early Release Teacher Training meeting and PLC meetings with teachers. As I began to read Five Minds For The Future by Howard Gardner. I started to think about how much information we are being bombarded with minute by minute; hour by hour; day by day. Howard Gardner suggest that if we are truly prepared for what is expected in the future we will have to operate in new ways of learning and thinking. He makes the same augment that our past authors have made during the course of our readings, simply that as the world gets smaller and smaller we must be willing to welcome the differences between individuals, as well as between human groups. We must be willing to except these differences and discover ways to effectively work with all groups of people.
As I began to read this book last week and I attended my various meetings I started to ponder in my mind the "five minds". Were these ways of cognitive being evident to me as I went about my daily work and how could I cultivate these "five minds". As a principal I can see how each of these mindsets would benefit me as both a learner and leader. Flowing back and forth through these mindset would allow me to take the large amounts of information and data that I must process, would allow me deeper understanding and insight.
I also was doing quite a bit of self-analysis! Interesting read, and very thought provoking. I tried to read the book from a teacher's perspective, but found myself continually self assessing.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of flowing back and forth through the mindsets appeals to me. How fascinating to be able to process information in so many ways. Does that make us the proverbial "Renaissance Man"? I hope so.
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