Zabedha Ali
I came on the programme because it is really important for me to keep developing my skills and I wanted to develop my leadership techniques but in a guided and supported way. The ILM accreditation was really important as I would like to look into a Teaching Degree so I thought this was a good place to restart my learning journey.
I have gained so much from it, the course has introduced me to a world of skills and the theory underpinning them. I have enjoyed reading about the subject and the research side of the course. It has made me understand a little better why our colleagues behave in different ways to ourselves and why the reasons behind these behaviours may arise.
It is helping me feel more confident, trying different leadership techniques because I can now understand why they are better suited to the situation. I have also become a much more reflective team member analysing my own behaviours and those of my colleagues. This has been good for my school because I am showing positive leadership skills that I have been able to put into practice developing an intervention for the benefit of the pupils.
One of the highlights has been researching Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, along with meeting like-minded inquisitive practitioners, whose passion and commitment to the job is highly infectious. Our course tutors have felt more like gentle guides who have shown us a path but allowed us to view it as it appears to us, they are knowledgeable but I feel they have encouraged me to look for the answers rather than having them presented to me.
