Vocational Education provision to International students There is a growing number of Non – Native English (NNEs) speakers within the Australian post-compulsory education sector. Figures obtained from Australian Tertiary Institutions shows an overall increase in the number of Non – Native English (NNEs) speakers studying within Australian over the past 10 years with an expectation...
Category: Learning & Leadership
All things learning & leadership related to self and others, formal and informal training and learning & teaching. Meaning-making, self-making, including: learning, developing skills or self image and voice, changing and developing views and perceptions, to become, to overcome, ‘holistic therapy’, communicating, engaging, discussing, expressing, projecting, goal setting, time management, negotiation, conflict resolution, educing, teaching, training, guiding, or scaffolding: either of yourself or others, into something more than who you were, to become who you really are …..To guide, to mentor, to inspire, to educe……
Leadership Part 1
Approaches to organisations The governing body of an organisation, from the initial decision to create an organisation, needs to consider and decide what the motivation to engage in one’s business activities is to be. This motivation usually fits under either a product or process approach. Product versus Process approach A product approach focuses on the outcomes...
Take Time
Take Time Take time to think….. It is the source of all power Take time to read….. It is the foundation of all wisdom Take time to play….. It is the source of perpetual youth Take time to be aware….. It is the opportunity to help others Take time to be quiet….. It is the...
Success
Thinking If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you’d like to win, but you think you can’t, It is almost a cinch that you won’t. If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost; For out of the world we find Success begins with a fellow’s will...
Memory – Age 14
Reflecting, as to how things could have been…. I wonder sometimes how things could have been…. I wonder if I was born into a different family, what could have life been like? I did at different points find sanctuary in other families’ homes – particular neighbours, and a few relatives. I recall when ever I was in these...
Memory – Age 2
My earliest recollection The earliest recollections I have of my life are: I recall darkness and starkness of an empty house I recall the house had little to no natural light….. I recall being alone, and feeling scared most of those days…. I recall there were few if anyone in the house with me….. I have no...
Memory – Age 13
Moving from being a big fish in a little pond…… I had graduated from primary school, and I was now going to high school. The new high school I went to, drew from all the local smaller primary schools from surrounding districts, making the high school population four (4) to five (5) to six (6)...
Memory – Age 9
Another significant event…. I know one of my pet hates in life is the schoolyard pick. Based on my experience on the receiving end, I avoid it like the plague … When I am presented an opportunity in leadership, To split a group, I will use any other method than the schoolyard pick This is...
Memory – Age 7
I have always tried to live straight up and down But it seems that no matter how much I tried, trouble has always followed me, wrong place, wrong time.. dragging me off my feet something always seems to get in my way, and I come unstuck…. That trait seems to have followed me through pretty much all of my life……….....
Memory – Age 14 – 16
This is another in-situated recollection of what I consider to have been a significant period in my life, when I was Age 14 to Age 16. Looking for something (other than where I was..) Looking for something (other than where I was)©David L Page 2016 The house was a lot quieter now, even if only...