Values for the Yatra

Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter OCTOBER 2011

Value of Educators: LEGACY LEADERS

The responsibility of developing young minds and hearts is in the hands of their educators. This is a precious and sacred vocation, a gift bestowed on the educator by the Creator. While teaching is only an act of imparting specific information and knowledge, Education is a journey in wisdom. Educators have to make this journey first before they can lead their students to discover their wisdom-path in life. Educators have to be LEGACY LEADERS. In discovering Wisdom ourselves, we lead the young to become wise leaders too. This issue of the Values for the Yatra focuses on the Diamond Value CROWN. The Crown represents Leadership. A Diamond Valued Educator is a CROWNED LEADER. F. W. Robertson rightly said, The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart opinions, but to kindle minds. Legacy Leaders are those, that not only motivate and challenge their followers to excellence, but those that awaken the soul and stretch the mind. Legacy Leaders leave the world a better place and pass on the baton to the younger generations. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a (Legacy) Leader, affirmed John Quincy Adams. As a Teacher, you will one day have to retire! What are you going to leave behind?........ An empty classroom, an unfinished syllabus, a disillusioned student, an angry heart, just a faint footprint on the sands of time?... Remember, your students would have forgotten all your well prepared subject matter no sooner than they have left school. BUT, they will always remember the times when you prepared them to face life; to meet adversity with courage, to build relationships with trust and forgiveness, to gather the broken pieces and to refocus on ones lost vision. They will cherish the times you lead them from fear to hope, from darkness to light, from disillusion to greater purpose, from failure to fruitfulness. Unconsciously, you have been a LEGACY LEADER in their journey in wisdom. Your footprint as a Legacy leader will be hard to erase. Others will follow and continue to cherish the gift of you. Your contribution to the world will be immense because of the many transformed lives you have nurtured along the way. Anna Hazare is one such present day Legacy Leader. He has given birth to a movement with thousands of young and passionate Anna Hazares, who are ready to take his cause to a higher plane of action and make India a better place for all.. As Educators of the young, we are all called to know way,, to show the way, to walk the way and to Live the way. May this DAIMOND VALUE CROWN inspire us as Educator, each day, to become Legacy Leaders and in the long run, our students joining us too, to make this world a better place to live in for all times. Fr. Glenford Lowe SDB

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Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter OCTOBER 2011

Without VISION: We Educators Perish SCHOOL: The Value of VISION

DEFINING YOUR VISION: In Vision Framework, Jim Collins suggests three important questions to determine your Vision. It is good to look at these three questions : a) What would you be WORLD BEST at? b) What are you PASSIONATE about? c) What DRIVES your personal, economic, intellectual, spiritual engine? MEANING QUESTIONS FOR LIVING BY YOUR VISION: a QUIET TIME for Educators to introspect Your Vision statement must be a happy blend of your Institutions purpose and the guiding Values that govern your life and the broader horizon of your educational institution. As an Educator, without a proper Vision, we can end up as the blind leading the blind. Here are a few Important Meaning Questions that could help you to discover your Vision and Purpose as an Educator: 1.What FOOTPRINT do you want to leave behind? ..Temporary or Permanent, Cheap or Valuable 2.What SHAPES YOU as a Person?... Your Words, your Actions, your Feelings, your Opinions, your Values 3.Where are your LESSONS learnt from?.. Your Successes, your Failures, your Opportunities, Experiences 4.What are you PASSIONATE about? Nothing, Everything, Something definite.. 5.What DRIVES you on a PERSONAL level?..Fear or Faith, Ignorance or Wisdom, Convention or Conviction 6.What DRIVES you on an ECONOMIC level?...Security , Scarcity, Success or Abundance and Affluence 7.What DRIVES you on an INTELLECTUAL level? Opinions, Impressions or Influence and Quest for Learning 8.What DRIVES your SPIRITUAL engine? Superstitions and Fear, Love of God, Prayer and God Experience 9.Where is your LIFEs Destiny leading you now? ...Nowhere...Running in circles, Stagnant or Ever-flowing 10.What do you SEE at the end of your Lifes journey? Nothing, Hopelessness or Hope, Joy and Satisfaction WHAT WOULD YOU BE WORLD BEST AT? 1. ... 2. ... 3. 4. WHAT ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT? 1. ... 2. ... 3. 4. WHAT DRIVES YOUR LIFES ENGINE? 1. ... 2. ... 3. 4.

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Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter OCTOBER 2011

CROWN: The POWER of PURPOSE

"What is most important to me in my life? What are my deepest values and beliefs?" In stormy waters, what guides me to reach the safe harbour? As your life purpose and intentions become clearer, your life is bound to move more powerfully in the direction you want it to go
" It is not the length of life, but the depth of life" Ralph Waldo Emerson As Educators, we are often caught in the web of routine we teach the same syllabus, we tell the same stories, we enact the same dramas, we dream the same dreams, we give the same answers because we ask the same old questions! In the bargain, we live more in the yester-world than in the present times. The world we live in is moving rapidly and the solutions we thought were our guiding force for yesterday are so irrelevant and outdated for today. Ten of the worlds fastest growing careers, didnt even exist ten years ago. Were entering an age where every object, every place, is surrounded by digital data. Massive amounts of data will be streaming in every direction. The only way were going to be able to live in this world of massive information is to be able to access it in ways that are more sensory rich. They have to appeal to our senses, quotes Marina Gorbis, executive director the Institute for the Future. Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley based technology forecaster, said lifelong learning will be the key to unlocking the future. People should expect to change careers six or seven times in their lifetime. This is a brain race, said Saffo. Its no longer warm and fuzzy. Lifelong learning will be a forced march. If you stop learning, you will become unemployed and unemployable very quickly. Without a proper personal and passionate Purpose, as educators, we run the risk of giving very little direction and push to our students. Rather than becoming the wind behind their wings, we become road blocks and barriers. WHAT is my PURPOSE in LIFE as an EDUCATOR? .. .. WHAT can I DO to instill the VALUE OF PURPOSE in the life of my students? .. . .

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Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter OCTOBER 2011

ENABLING STUDENT LEADERS

1. Lead

Yourself First - The Student Leader's Hardest Task

Student Leaders start with themselves. Character, Values, self-discipline, and personal organization skills determine what kind of leader a person will be. Student Leaders must serve as an example to those who put their trust and loyalty in them. Student Leadership starts off as an inside job.
2. Develop

Your Influence With Others - The Student

Leader's Biggest Asset Influence allows a student leader to lead. A student leader knows how to move people in a certain direction through mission, vision, and values. The quality of the school depends on the influence potential of the leader 3. Make

A Difference Mindset - The Student Leader's

Noblest Cause The student leader understands that there is a moment between a person's need and their ideal future and helps them achieve that. A student leader knows that participating in this moment is the opportunity to be the difference that people are looking for. How is your school different because of you? 4. Clear

Communication - The Student Leader's Strongest

Skill The ability to communicate is often overlooked in student leadership. But clear communication is what motivates and moves people. A student leader must be able to keep people informed and focused on what's most important for the organization. A successful student leader will provide clarity and not confusion. How you say it is as important as what you say. 5. Get

Others Involved - The Student Leader's Highest Investment

By definition, a student leader is one who has people following him or her. If all a student does is accomplish tasks, he or she is a student worker. But if a student focuses on getting others involved and spends time equipping them, he or she is a student leader. Remember, the world cannot be saved by you alone...get your team to be involved. Are you a Team player?

'You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.' Peter Senge Following the sun we left the Old World.' Christopher Columbus

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Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter OCTOBER 2011

October 2, 2011 International Day of Non-Violence

The International Day of Non-Violence is marked on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence According to General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/271 of 15 June 2007, which established the commemoration, the International Day is an occasion to "disseminate the message of non-violence, including through education and public awareness". The resolution reaffirms "the universal relevance of the principle of non-violence" and the desire "to secure a culture of peace, tolerance, understanding and non-violence". Introducing the resolution in the General Assembly on behalf of 140 co-sponsors, Indias Minister of State for External Affairs, Mr. Anand Sharma, said that the wide and diverse sponsorship of the resolution was a reflection of the universal respect for Mahatma Gandhi and of the enduring relevance of his philosophy. Quoting the late leaders own words, he said: "Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man".

Violence, Abuse and Corporal Punishment: Where Schools can make a change?
The recent Government of India, Ministry of Women and Child Development report on Child Abuse in India (WCD, GOI, 2007) based on interviews with 3,163 school-going children released startling figures: Two out of every three school-going children were physically abused Out of 69 per cent physically abused in 13 sample states, 54.68 per cent were boys; Out of children physically abused in family situations, 88.6 per cent were physically abused by parents; Two out of three school-going children reported facing corporal punishment; 62 per cent of the corporal punishment was in government and municipal schools; Most children did not report the matter to anyone; 50.2 per cent children worked seven days a week; The ratio of girls physically abused was higher in Kerala (55.61 per cent) and Gujarat (54.61 per cent); The highest percentage of abuse among boys was reported from Delhi (62.2 per cent) followed by Madhya Pradesh (59.75 per cent) and Maharashtra (55.75 per cent).

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Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter OCTOBER 2011

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily. A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. John Maxwell Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude

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Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter OCTOBER 2011

DIAMOND VALUES: LESSON PLAN COMPETITION for TEACHERS

Together on the Valued Path

AVEC is organizing a Competition for all Teachers of Value Education affiliated to the ABE schools. The Competition will require teachers to send in LESSON PLANS (a Teachers and Students copy) on any significant Diamond Value relevant to the student of a particular class. For the 12 Diamond Values , please refer to Values for the Yatra, June 2011. The LESSON PLAN should keep to the following structure: Title: (The Value that needs to be focused on for a PARTICULAR CLASS) Objectives: (The main purpose of the session, the Why to of the session) Duration: 40 minute session Materials required: (use of audio visual aids, posters, etc.) Starter Activities: (Through creative ways to capture the attention of the students) Development Stage: (Deepening of the Value through various Inputs) Reflective Stage: (Creating a conducing atmosphere to help the student to absorb the Value) Commitment Stage: (Inviting the students to Own the Value and practice it beyond classroom) STUDENTS WORKSHEET (interactive session to deepen, reflect, own and practice the Value) The RULES: All Lessons plans must be Original Works, Creative and Practical according to the Childs level of thinking and capacity. Please indicate the Class to be facilitated. Participants are free to send in as many Lesson plans as they wish. All Lesson Plans will have to be endorsed by the relevant School Authority. All Lesson Plans will have to be TYPED and submitted to the AVEC Office by e-mail and through surface mail latest by JANUARY 30, 2012.. Please ensure that the above mentioned structure is followed thoroughly. All Entries submitted will remain and be used as part of the AVEC Resources. The AWARDS: A Total Cash Prize of R 35,000/Three AWARDS per class (std I X) : TOTAL 30 Awards to be WON!!! First Prize: R 1500 /Second Prize: R 1200 /Third Prize: R 1000 /The Rules and Decisions made by AVEC are final and binding. For further details please contact the AVEC office. Organized by: AVEC, Matunga - MUMBAI

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Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter OCTOBER 2011 NAME
SENIORS

SCHOOL St. Charles High School, Vakola Don Bosco Senior Secondary Nerul St. Annes Girls High School, Dabul St. Xaviers Boys Academy, Churchgate

CLASS IX A X XB X2

POSITION First Second Third Third

Rutuja S. Khanvilkar Aroona Jojo Manali Vadhan Aditya J. Shah INTERS Servesha Rubji Rucha Ghadge Hetvi Shah JUNIORS Manav Ashok Panchal Hritvik Hitesh Patel Subiksha Rajagopalam Anaida Pereira

Holy Family High School, Chembur Holy Cross Convent School, Kalyan Carmel of St. Joseph, Malad

VIII - B VIII - B VIII - D

First Second Third

St. Xavier s High School, Vile Parle St. Xaviers Boys Academy, Churchgate Don Bosco Senior Secondary, Nerul Carmel of St. Joseph, Malad

VI -C VI - 2 VI - B VC

First Second Third Third

RULES: The script for the skit must be original and written by the students themselves. The skit could be enacted in the class/school itself. The DURATION: 1215 minutes NUMBER of Actors/Actresses: 1215 max THEME: Any of the 12 DIAMOND VALUES
Best Three in each category to reach the AVEC Office before 26th October 2011. Winners will be declared in the November issue.

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Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter OCTOBER 2011

The Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) will be organizing a Value Education Seminar for ALL VALUE EDUCATION COORDINATORS affiliated to the ABE (Mumbai) VENUE: DON BOSCO MATUNGA, Primary School Hall DATE: November 17, 2011

TIME: 8.30 am4.00 pm Registration Fee: R 250 /- per participant (includes Registration, Refreshments, Lunch,
DVD with Value Resources, and Certificate of Participation)

Invitation is also open to Managers and Principals of Schools.

Lets Come Together on the Valued Path

AVEC E-Letter Values for the Yatra is an initiative to provide Animation Resources for Teachers involved in Value Education in the ABE schools/ Jr. Colleges . Values for the Yatra is published every month and is for private circulation. Your valuable suggestions are most welcome to assist us in making Values for the Yatra a useful tool of animation and bonding among the Management, teachers and students of the ABE schools in Mumbai. CONTACT: Fr. Glenford Lowe, SDB / Michelle DSouza / Rochwyn Fernandes / Margaret Dubey / Sr. Vera Almeida AVECDon Bosco Youth Services, Matunga 400019 , MUMBAI Ph: 24154477 e-mail: avecmatunga@gmail.com blog: avecmumbaidbys.blogspot.com