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Habits of Highly Successful TeachersHabits of Highly Successful Teachersby Abida Mahmood

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Habits of Highly Successful Teachers

ByMrs Abida Mahmood

Qurban & Surraya Educational TrustWalton Rd

Lahore Cantt

Inspired by the idea of Stephen Covey

They Lead



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They Train

They teach



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They Inspire

They Motivate



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They Touch Lives

And they Change Lives ……Forever



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TEACHERS

Making a difference as a teacher

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit and you reap a character;Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Teachers sow good habits in children…..



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What is a habit?Habit is a principle that we

internalise. It is the overlapping of knowledge, skill and attitude. Skill

Attitude Knowledge

Habit

“. . .[teachers] come to trust their insights and judgements at the same time as they begin to decrease their dependence on decontextualizedprinciples and techniques of good practice” (Brookfield, 1990)



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Effective habits of Teachers

• Be Proactive • Begin with the End in Mind • Put First Things First • Think Win/Win • Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

• Synergize • Sharpen the Saw • Find your voice and inspire others

Be ProactiveBegin with an end in mind

Put first things first

Think win win

Seek first to understand then to be understood

Synergize

Sharpen the saw

Private Victory

Public Victory

Renewal Find your voice



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1. Be ProactiveStop worrying about the things you

can’t control, like the weather, the illiterate parents of your pupils and what your colleagues are going to wear.

Focus on what you can control, your attitude, your decisions and your response to whatever happens to you.

Gain control over your moods.

Circumstances beyond controlToo much to cover Students ill prepared or not interested Not enough time Teaching not rewarded



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Work within circle of influence

Choices Responses

Circle of Control Ourselves Attitudes

2.Begin with the End in Mind

A goal not written is only a wish. Write down your goals. Why are you in the

teaching profession? What is the aim of your life?

• essence precedes existence • intention (mental representation)

then action • central role of mission statement • learning objectives of the lesson



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Begin with the end in mind

“Teaching is about making some kind of dent in the world so that the world is different than it was before you practiced your craft”

Brookfield, S.D. (1990).

Covey writes,

“How many really buy into it and use it as your frame of reference for making decisions?

Without involvement there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.

NO INVOLVEMENT, NO COMMITMENT”



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Begin with an end in mindPERSONAL MISSION STATEMENTIf you don’t have a personal mission

statement it’s time for you to have one now. Your Nabul- aein.

You have been created to do something, as now you are in teaching you are influencing the lives of many.

What do you intend to do with your life as a teacher?

Mission statement of a teacher…Enable me to teach with

WISDOMFor I help to shape the mind

Equip me to teach with TRUTHFor I help to shape a conscience

Encourage me to teach withVISIONFor I help to shape the future

Empower me to teach with LOVEFor I help to shape the world



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3.Put First Things First

Take fifteen minutes at the beginning of each week to plan your week. Teaching needs a lot of planning- long term planning, term planning, day to day planning, lesson planning- obviously the school will have policies on planning but it’s up to you to prioritise your tasks.

Identifying missions and values

Identify missions and values

Set Goals

Plan weekly

Plan Daily



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Strategies for teaching1.Moderate classroom incivilities with pro social

immediacies 2. Wait 3. Begin before feeling ready 4. Work and teach in brief, regular sessions 5. Stop 6. Moderate over attachment to content and

overreaction to criticism 7. Moderate negative thinking and strong emotions 8. Let others do some of the work 9. Welcome learning and change 10. Build resilience by limiting wasted efforts

The magical matrix

Crisis Relationship building Fighting fires New opportunitiesDeadlines Creativity, Planning

Busy Work Some mail,True Procastination reports

meetings, etc.Know how to say no



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4. Think Win - WinWhen Regan was president, he had a sign in his

office that read, ‘We’ll accomplish more if we don’t care who gets the credit.’

Get into the habit of sharing recognition and praise whenever you get it. People will love you for it.

You are not the only best teacher around, learn from other great teachers, be the first one to ask to learn. It would help you to grow.

Take pleasure in sharing.Two brains are always better than one.

Win-win Interdependence

Emotional Bank Accounts- making people trust you • Understanding the individual- especially

pupils • Attending to the little things • Keeping commitments • Clarifying expectations with pupils and

administration • Showing Personal Integrity • Apologizing sincerely for “withdrawals”



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5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood

Learn to use these words, ‘What do you think?’

We think that we as teachers are supposed to give advice if someone comes to us for help.

If we learn to understand by listening to everybody especially our pupils, life will be much happier. (spelt conference)

Listening leads to Vulnerability

The Adjunct Professor's Guide to Success: Surviving and Thriving in the College Classroom

One of the greatest rewards of teaching is allowing yourself to be sufficiently vulnerable that you empower students to share more of themselves with you and their peers than might at times be comfortable.



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6. SynergySynergy is achieved when two people work

together to create a better solution than either person could alone. It’s not your way or my way but a better way, a higher way.

Learn to appreciate differences. The next time you run into someone and feel yourself judging that person because they dress, talk, think, speak, or look different, stop yourself and think about what you do have in common instead. Remember they might be judging you the same way you judge them.

SynergyWe as teachers need to learn with

open mindedness and teach pupils to do the same, to share, to celebrate differences, to achieve as team members and to find new and better ways of teaching and learning.



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Diversity = Creative Sparks =

Opportunity

Synergy is more than compromise or cooperation. Compromise is 1+1=1½. Cooperation is 1+1=2, Synergy is 1+1=11, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.



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7. Sharpen Your Saw

Social/Emotional: Meet people and see the positive side in them.

Spiritual: Pray regularlyMental: Learn, readPhysical: Exercise

Sharpen your sawAbraham Lincoln was once

asked, ‘What would you do if you had eight hours to cut down a tree?’

He replied, ‘I’d spend the first four hours sharpening my saw.’



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8. Find your voice and Inspire Others to find theirs

• Your talent (natural gifts and strengths)• Your passion (those things that naturally

energize, excite, motivate and inspire you)

• Your need (what the world needs to pay to you)

• Your conscience (small voice within you that assures you about what is right and prompts you to actually do it.)

Concluding Remarks"There are no formulas for good teaching,

and the advice of experts has but marginal utility. If we want to grow in our practice, we have two primary places to go: to the inner ground from which good teaching comes and to the community of fellow teachers from whom we can learn more about ourselves and our craft”

( Palmer, 1998).



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Dependence

Public

Victory

Private

Victory

Independence

Interdependence

Be Proactive

Begin with

an end in mind

1st things 1st

Think win win

SynergizeSeek 1st to understand

Find

your

voice

Being a teacher you are destined for great things. Always remember, you were born with everything you need to succeed. You don’t have to look anywhere else. The power and light are in you!



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"I've come to the frightening conclusion That I am the decisive element in the classroom.

It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous.

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.

I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides

Whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated And a child humanized or de-humanized."

Thank you

Let’s work together for a better Pakistan!

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