The Magic Stick

What happened first ?

Then what did you all do?

Then what you changed to accomplish the task?

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My Development

Beliefs

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Habits of Mind?
Lets have a experience of
How do HOM operate? How do we develop HOM?

The objective of this exercise is to:

Understand the others point of view
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The objective of this exercise is to:

Understand others point of view

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Habits of Mind
1.Aware
2.Understand

What
Why

Punctuality is coming on time

I (want to) come on time because I like to respect others I will plan to start early I come on time

3.Strategize
4.Become Habit
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How
My Habit

Success Characteristics

Think of three characteristics which you would like to see in a child, characteristics that would help the child be successful in life
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Success Characteristics
How important are these characteristics for success in life: More imp than academics or equally imp or less imp?
If more or equally important then how are we ensuring that these get developed in the child
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Success Characteristics

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit."
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- Aristotle

Success Characteristics Assignment

Top Five HOMs Why are they important Which of these are beliefs?

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The Habits of Mind

D velo e p C onscio usly Affirm & C elebrate
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h a bi t s of mi n d

Usere al or set up E rience xpe s

Re ct fle

Aware Understand S trategy

Giving Experience Assignment

Take your top Five HOMs Think how will you give experiences to your child on each of them Give these experiences? Observe

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Lets do this
1. Stand up and rotate your RIGHT leg in CLOCKWISE direction 2. While rotating, write a large 6 (top to bottom) in air with your RIGHT hand.
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Rotation
1. How are you feeling aboutExcited Frustrated yourself? Amused Choose any one word that Embarrassed comes closest to what you Irritated Funny are feeling.

2. How much did you persevere? Rate your perseverance out of 10.
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10

 Did you persevere in being able to do this? Why? How much? In what ways did persevering help you?
Did you at times gave up or felt like not persevering? Why? In what ways did this help you ? How did your feeling effect your perseverance?
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Exploring HOM Assignment

Research and understand (your) HOM.
Read about it Talk to others* (remember how much we can learn from others

Make 50 questions
Explore HOM in many different ways

Think of activities that can help you give experience of this to the child
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What do you say or do?

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Why do you praise ?

Does any 10 months old child looks for praise ? We have taught them - why we have taught them? I do something to get praise. I try to live up to the praise.

I AM BECOMIMG DEPENEDENT
So what you want - INNER SELF or If you do not praise will sun stop rising or flower will stop blooming in the jungle ? www.geniekids.com

Four levels of praise

Level 1: Judgment (Excellent) Level 2: Specific (I like the way you have
used blue colour)

Level 3: Childs evaluation (What do

you like / not like about your work) Level 4: Strength & Ability (This shows that you have been observant & used creativity)

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