'To empower, be empowered' are processes that enable individuals to take on greater responsibility and authority in decision making. The individuals' potential to make decisions can be maximized within an environment that nurtures them through education, training, professional development, commitment, facilitation, resources, mutual trust and emotional support. In the educational context, 'to empower, be empowered' is to provide a 'self-surpassing classroom', that is, a classroom environment with 'self-surpassing teachers' who engage their students in purposeful activities and direct them to be responsible for their own learning. "To Empower, Be Empowered" is suitable and applicable for all those who are in people management. The 14 chapters in the book are interrelated topics, written from the different perspectives of empowerment.
The topics include: stepping up empowerment, understanding learning styles and cognitive profiling to empower teachers in effective teaching and students in active learning, the situational application of strategies in the art and science of motivation in a partnership relationship, the empowering capacity of successful mentoring and coaching, reframing mindsets as an empowering tool to foster forward looking that allows new answers to old questions, empowering the teacher in the 'Teach less, and Learn more' notion, and initiatives to empowerment in the 'Thinking school, Learning nation' vision.
Content About the Authors Introduction: Stepping Up Empowerment Chapter 1: Empowering the Learner Chapter 2: Understanding Learning Styles to Empower Learning Chapter 3: Learning Styles and Educational Issues Chapter 4: Empowerment through Cognitive Profiling Chapter 5: Cognitive Matching to Empower Learning Chapter 6: Implications of Learning Styles in Empowering Learning Chapter 7: Empowering Learning with Cognitive Organizers Chapter 8: Empowering through Motivation: The Theory Chapter 9: Empowering through Motivation: The Practice Chapter 10: Empowering through Mentoring Chapter 11: Empowering through Coaching Chapter 12: Reframe to Empower Learning Chapter 13: Empowering the Teacher: First, Learn More Thyself Chapter 14: Initiatives to Empowerment in a 'Learning Nation' References Index