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Habits of Highly Successful TeachersHabits of Highly Successful Teachersby Abida Mahmood
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)
Habits of Highly Successful TeachersHabits of Highly Successful Teachersby Abida Mahmood
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
Habits of Highly Successful TeachersHabits of Highly Successful Teachersby Abida Mahmood
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
Habits of Highly Successful TeachersHabits of Highly Successful Teachersby Abida Mahmood
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.
Habits of Highly Successful TeachersHabits of Highly Successful Teachersby Abida Mahmood
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.
Habits of Highly Successful TeachersHabits of Highly Successful Teachersby Abida Mahmood
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.
Habits of Highly Successful TeachersHabits of Highly Successful Teachersby Abida Mahmood
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).
Habits of Highly Successful TeachersHabits of Highly Successful Teachersby Abida Mahmood
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!
Habits of Highly Successful TeachersHabits of Highly Successful Teachersby Abida Mahmood
"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."