Kepler, my other home!”. One could wonder on how a University could be considered as a family, but most surprising, compared to a home. Mostly, in the available institutions here in Rwanda, grades are the only measurement of success. In fact, in those institutions, tutees are expected to only complete exams and tests successfully, after having attended sessions in a lecture style. However, Kepler is an institution different from those ones. In addition to learning through an activity style, students are there evaluated based on the demonstration of the learned skills, and also on the way they behave in the Kepler community. Hence, that is the similarity with real homes where children acquire their character not by memorizing their parents’
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All Kepler community members are suggested to always arrive at a place where an event is going to take place before the starting time. For instance, there is a rule called “Five Minutes Before” at Kepler. Either students or staff members have to always arrive five minutes before the starting time of sessions. In addition to that, everyone at Kepler is required to accomplish tasks before the deadline. For example, students are asked to always submit works, either pre-classes or assignments, before their due time. They then make the habit of meeting deadlines. Considering all those facts together, improvements can be seen in Kepler students’ …show more content…
Kepler encourages its students to become effective communicators, by using all methods of communicating with others. For example, through communication class, concerning writing, they learn how to write professional emails. In addition to that, they learn how to write good essays. Concerning speaking, they are all urged to develop public speaking skills by developing a loud and confident voice, and by developing their fluency in speaking. Furthermore, they develop habits of effective networkers, which allow them to build good and useful relationships. To do so, they are always told to strengthen their active listening skills since those skills are the foundation of each relationship with others. For example, every student is always told to track the speaker, and sometimes, students are asked to teach back to see if they were really listening. Becoming an effective networker also includes knowing how to give, seek and receive feedbacks, which are things they learn in Professional Competencies; it also includes team-work skills, one of the types of effective networkers’ traits that Kepler students acquire. Additionally, professional skills require effective tech-savvy managers’ skills, and also those skills are learned at Kepler. This can be seen in the way Kepler students use the Microsoft Suite, Social Media, and how fast they are while typing texts.
All Kepler community members are suggested to always arrive at a place where an event is going to take place before the starting time. For instance, there is a rule called “Five Minutes Before” at Kepler. Either students or staff members have to always arrive five minutes before the starting time of sessions. In addition to that, everyone at Kepler is required to accomplish tasks before the deadline. For example, students are asked to always submit works, either pre-classes or assignments, before their due time. They then make the habit of meeting deadlines. Considering all those facts together, improvements can be seen in Kepler students’ …show more content…
Kepler encourages its students to become effective communicators, by using all methods of communicating with others. For example, through communication class, concerning writing, they learn how to write professional emails. In addition to that, they learn how to write good essays. Concerning speaking, they are all urged to develop public speaking skills by developing a loud and confident voice, and by developing their fluency in speaking. Furthermore, they develop habits of effective networkers, which allow them to build good and useful relationships. To do so, they are always told to strengthen their active listening skills since those skills are the foundation of each relationship with others. For example, every student is always told to track the speaker, and sometimes, students are asked to teach back to see if they were really listening. Becoming an effective networker also includes knowing how to give, seek and receive feedbacks, which are things they learn in Professional Competencies; it also includes team-work skills, one of the types of effective networkers’ traits that Kepler students acquire. Additionally, professional skills require effective tech-savvy managers’ skills, and also those skills are learned at Kepler. This can be seen in the way Kepler students use the Microsoft Suite, Social Media, and how fast they are while typing texts.