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As a future community leader, the document discusses several key responsibilities and challenges. Some responsibilities of a community leader include possessing empathy, strong communication skills, and the ability to inspire others to work toward common goals. They must also address a variety of opinions and personalities to mobilize groups. As a future teacher, the document lists several potential problems that may be encountered in the community, including lack of teamwork among students, teachers taking on too many roles, not having enough time for planning and paperwork. Possible solutions offered to address these problems include promoting empathy among students, which can lead to benefits like higher academic achievement and better communication skills. Providing educators with tools to build empathy and tailor lessons to individual students'

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As a future community leader, the document discusses several key responsibilities and challenges. Some responsibilities of a community leader include possessing empathy, strong communication skills, and the ability to inspire others to work toward common goals. They must also address a variety of opinions and personalities to mobilize groups. As a future teacher, the document lists several potential problems that may be encountered in the community, including lack of teamwork among students, teachers taking on too many roles, not having enough time for planning and paperwork. Possible solutions offered to address these problems include promoting empathy among students, which can lead to benefits like higher academic achievement and better communication skills. Providing educators with tools to build empathy and tailor lessons to individual students'

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JIMENEZ, ANGELINE T.

BSBIO-4A

ACTIVITY 2
Answer the following questions briefly:

1. What is your role as community leader?

Answer: Community leaders have many different temperaments and styles. Some
leaders are more demonstrative while others lead quietly but command respect. Yet
there are a few common threads among successful leaders.
They must possess empathy, the ability to inspire, strong communication skills and
pride in their community. Effective leaders are problem solvers who involve all
members of their teams. They get people to work together toward a common goal.
They focus on building effectiveness – the ability to get things done.1
Mobilizing a group to develop community support for, say, a neighborhood clean-up
or a school improvement campaign can be a complex undertaking. Leaders must often
persuade others to work with them and address a range of opinions and personalities.
Organizational models are evolving. Administrators are streamlining traditionally
rigid bureaucracies as they’ve come to understand that such systems often serve not
constituents but the bureaucracies themselves. Effective community leaders are a key
to success in this new environment.
“New Public Management”
The one-size-fits-all solutions of entrenched organizational structures are giving way
to the more goal-oriented models of the “new public management.” Performance
goals are taking the place of blindly adhering to rules and regulations.
Additionally, public systems are adapting to the new ethos and becoming more
decentralized, with more outsourcing to private contractors for goods and services.
Public entities are increasingly using market mechanisms to improve performance.
These changes have had an impact on the job of the public administrator: Community
leaders now have more discretion to manage. At the same time, leaders must still
learn and adhere to the old core values, like transparency, accountability, and
professionalism. Community leaders must be models of rectitude, without cutting
ethical corners, and they must set an example of confident leadership.2
A New Transparency
The public has learned to expect openness and honesty from their public leaders; the
old secret ways, typified by smoke-filled-room decision making, are widely
condemned nowadays (to say nothing of being in violation of open meetings laws). At
the same time, public leaders are openly acknowledging that their salaries are paid for
by the citizenry, which has placed its faith in accountable leadership.
Professionalism means doing a job respectfully, competently, and straightforwardly. It
also means showing proven leadership capabilities

2. As a future teacher, what are some possible problems that you will
encounter in the community?

Answer:
1. Lack of teamwork, empathy, and support between students
With a stronger focus on individual student performance, many teachers feel that
teamwork doesn’t play an important enough role in classrooms. If students spend the
majority of their time working individually, they don’t get the opportunity to better
their social and teamwork skills. These are especially important to develop in
elementary and middle school.
2. Teachers working too many roles at the same time
Social worker, psychoeducator, and counselor represent only a few of the hats that
teachers are expected to wear throughout the day. In order to help their students, they
feel compelled to adopt these roles themselves even though they don’t have the proper
training. They still do it, though, because they care.
3. No time to deal with bodily functions!
All throughout the day, teachers must jump from one task to the next and are often
forced to neglect their own bodies. There are no bathroom or water breaks for
teachers; sometimes they don’t have a lunch break at all.
4. Teachers being made accountable for more than they should
Teachers don’t feel the accountability is shared equally between them, students, and
parents. This can create a tense atmosphere. It’s also difficult to express this feeling to
parents with diplomacy. But when parent night comes, ready or not, teachers put their
game face on.
5. Not enough time to plan
Teachers often decry the lack of time they are given to prepare, plan and execute all
the tasks that are demanded of them. Updating content presentations and documents,
correcting older material, and adapting subjects to a new cohort of students are some
of the tasks that teachers would like more time for.
6. Excessive paperwork for data collection
In order to build reliable statistics, school and district administrations ask that teachers
compile large amounts of data, such as grades and student growth indicators like SEL
and collaboration. Teachers have difficulty with this because of the additional time it
requires and the fact that, once again, it takes precious time away from preparing
quality content for their students.
7. Keeping up with the expectations of school admins
A lot of teachers feel that more and more is expected of them from their school’s (or
district’s) administration: offer constant support to the students, keep a line of
communication open with parents, give more personalized help to students who need
more attention to succeed, and so on. While teachers do want to provide the best
support to their students, they maintain that they don’t receive enough paid time to do
so. Access to specialized personnel and more time outside of class are some of the
suggested ways to improve support and meet those increasing expectations.
8. Applying a prescribed curriculum to all types of students
Ask any teacher, and they will tell you: Every student is different. They learn at
different speeds, and they each have their own way of taking in content and
remembering it. Problems arise when teachers are expected to apply a fixed
curriculum to students with vastly different needs. Adapting lessons to students and
tailoring content to their needs takes time, which is in short supply.
If we distill these challenges to the major areas of school life that cause teachers the
most difficulty, a common theme emerges: Teachers want better tools to communicate
with students and parents, help with classroom management, and resources that will
save them time in tailoring content to their students. 

3. What possible solution can you offer to solve the problem?


Lots of people are talking about empathy these days, and it’s not hard to see why.
Empathy is a key part of being a responsible and helpful community member at
school and elsewhere. For example, young people who show empathy are less likely
to bully. Empathy can also be a route to academic and career success, because it helps
people understand and work with others. They are peaceful, productive, and positive
places where all teachers can teach and all students can learn.
Although it doesn’t necessarily take a lot of work to build empathy, it does take
attention and commitment — but it’s worth it for students, educators, and the school
community. Studies show that when young people have empathy, they display:

*More classroom engagement


*Higher academic achievement
*Better communication skills
*Lower likelihood of bullying
*Less aggressive behaviors and emotional disorders
*More positive relationships

To help educators learn how to build empathy among their school communities, the
Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
reviewed existing research on empathy and the strategies of evidence-based programs
that promote it. Our work shows that there’s more to developing empathy than simply
asking students to “walk in someone else’s shoes.”
In this resource, you’ll find steps you can take to build real empathy in your students
and your community.

6 Ways to Get More Educators into the Classroom


1. Allow for different approach styles
2. Give realistic timescales for feedback
3. Offer allocated “office time”
4. Add some remedial classes
5. Re-look at how homework is managed
6. Think about adding external markers

4. As a future teacher, are you willing to work with the community? Why?
Why not?

Answer:
Yes because I want children to learn how to read, write and also to share my
knowledge that can help them in the fuuture and I also want theme to learn good
manners.

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