Week 1: Be ProactiveI am very excited to learn more about “The seven habits of highly effective people” by Dr. Covey. When I taught at Lakeside Union School District 5 years ago, we began to learn these habits as teachers, then started to implement into our teaching, very quickly, the whole school district used it as our characteristic guide for all our students. We also have workshops to connect with parents for students’ home learning. It has been very successful and we use these habits to deal with students’ issues and problem solving. We have involved a lot of activities including social stories, arts and crafts, songs etc. into the teaching. My students can do the gestures and sing/say these habits in Mandarin and we truly believe this as our mentor to form good habits and solve problems. Whenever problem arises, we let them think which habit they need to think of and how to solve it.
My Learning. This week I have learned the first habit of the “The seven habits of highly effective people”: be proactive. The main idea is I’m in control what I do. I have learned that I choose my attitude, I’m on the driver’s seat on my destination. You have control only on 3 things: what you think, what you say, how you behave. I control those three things, I’m not going to give away. Somebody who are consistently confidently do it. As an individual, you see you are responsible to your behavior. As a result, you will have an influence. I see I’m more independent. I’m responsible. You take responsible. You don’t blame, you don’t talk about you can’t. you take power you want. You want them to feel control. You have demonstrated that. You have believed that. You have the ability. I have imagination, I have independent will. I’ll decide what it’s going to be. As a leader, I get bigger influence from my own behaviour. Now I’m in control of my job as a teacher, my graduate studies as a graduate student, and my house work as a mom and a wife. I take responsibility of these roles and in control of these things as well. As a teacher, I’m responsible to my students and their school life. As a graduate student, I’m responsible to my graduate study work. As a wife and mom, I’m co-responsible to my own children and their life with my husband. I think I have been doing very well with these roles and I’m proactive. How Am I Going to Teach. I am going to teach my daughter, a first grader and her girl scout group of 6 girls the 7 learning habits. we meet every Sunday afternoon for 1.5 hours. I have confirmed with all the GS moms that we will use about 15 minutes of time to teach those 6 girls a learning habit. I taught my daughter these 7 habits 2 years ago, but not consistently use it since we moved out of the country. I’m thrilled to teach her and her buddies again so that we can reuse them as a guide for our behaviour. I plan to teach them habit 1 on our meeting this Sunday. I will teach them the hand gesture first about how to express “be proactive” with their body language. I will also read books to them and asking questions about how to be proactive, ask if they have anything to share and how can they be more proactive. I expect them to get a lot from reading the story and realising it’s themselves who are in control and be responsible for their own behavior. References: Covey, S. R. (1989). The seven habits of highly effective people: Restoring the character ethic. New York: Simon and Schuster.
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10/29/2016 01:56:10 pm
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