The 7 Habits of Highly

Effective Teachers

Delivered by: Razwan Faraz

Adopted from: Book by Stephen R Covey

Discussion
1. If you could be anything, what would you be?
What is stopping you?

2. If you could do anything, what would you do?

What is stopping you?

3. If you could have any strength/quality in your

character, which ones would you have?
What is stopping you?

We Learn. . .

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Experience

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Discuss

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Read

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William Glasser

When all you own is a hammer, every

problem starts looking like a nail
Abraham Maslow
I say:

When you see everything as a nail, you beat

yourself for not owning a hammer!

Discussion
What is neotony?

The state resulting when juvenile characteristics

are retained by the adults of a species
(Dictionary.com)

The 7 Habits
7
Sharpen saw

Interdependence
Understand
Synergize
5
6
PUBLIC
VICTORY
Think win-win
4

Independence
3
1 things 1st
st

PRIVATE
VICTORY
1
2
Be Proactive
End in mind
Dependence

Discussion
What significance does our paradigm have
on our behaviour?
How does the prior knowledge we have of a
child effect the way we behave with that child
and the way they behave with us?

Thoughts become
actions
A man found an eagles egg and put it in the nest of a
barnyard hen. The eagle hatched with the brute of chicks
and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the
barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken.
He scratched the earth for worms and insects, he clucked
and cackled and thrashed his wings and would fly a few
feet into the air. Years passed by and the eagle grew very
old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the
cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the
powerful wind currents. The old eagle looked up in awe
who is that? he asked. Thats the eagle, the king of the
birds said his neighbour, he belongs to the sky we belong
to the earth, because we are chickens. So the eagle lived
and died a chicken, for thats what he thought he was.

Every great
breakthrough is a
break WITH.
If you want to make minor improvements, work
on behavior and attitudes. If you want to make
quantum improvements, work on paradigms. A
paradigm is like a mental model, an assumption,
or a map.
All people see the world, not as it is, but as
they are - Covey

What is the profession of these

people?

Circle of
Influence

Circle of
Concern

What do we not see?

Excellence is an art won by training and

habituation. We are what we repeatedly
do. Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit

Aristotle

Knowledge
(what to, why to)

Habits
Skills
(how to)

Desire
(want to)

Habits

Internalized principles
& patterns of behavior

Anonymous
Be careful of your thoughts
For your thoughts become your words
Be careful of your words
For your words become your actions
Be careful of your actions
For your actions become your habits
Be careful of your habits
For your habits become your character
Be careful of your character
For your character becomes your destiny.

Habit 1

Habit 1 Be proactive

Raise your hand if you have said 3 or more of the following:

I cant
I have to go
I dont know how
He makes me so mad!
There is nothing I can do
She thinks I am not good at.
I cant control that class!
I hate Mondays

Food for thought

Between stimulus and response there is a
space. In that space is our power to choose
our response. In our response lies our
growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl

Responsibility

Response

Ability

Stimulus and Response

Stimulus
Stimulus

Proactive
Freedom
to Choose

Response
Response

Self-Awareness..Heart
Imagination.Mind
Conscience..Spirit
Independent Will.Body

Reactive

Stimulus
Stimulus

Response
Response

Internal frame of
reference / selfreferential person:
Uses themselves as the context or reference
frame. Considers their model of the world as the
standard by which others are judged. Compares
progress made to their own standards and works
to improve against their own past results as
opposed to that of others

Discussion
List 3 areas where you react negatively on a
regular basis to a stimulus outside of you
What proactive actions will you now take to
ensure you are in control of the response to
these actions
What mental attitude must you adopt in order
to fulfil these actions?

habit 2 begin with the end in mind

Habit 2: Begin With

The End In Mind
Would you tell me, please,
which way I ought to go
from here?
"That depends a good
deal on where you want to
get to," said the Cat.
"I dont much care
where," said Alice.
"Then it doesnt matter
which way you go," said the
Cat.

Mission Statement
Example
"My mission is to champion others to grow
personally, professionally, emotionally and
spiritually by using my compassion, my unique
perspective, and my belief in others' inherent
goodness, integrity, and enormous potential."

Discussion End in
Mind
What vision do you have for yourself?
What vision do you have for the children you
teach?
List 5 actions you have taken that have
brought you closer to these visions.

habit 3 put first things first

Habit 3 ... a
demonstration.

What is the lesson?

The Time Management Matrix

Not Important

Important

Urgent

Not Urgent

Exam tomorrow
Friend gets injured
Late for work/class
Project due today

Planning, goal setting

Paper due in a week
Exercise
Relationships/relaxation

Unimportant phone
calls
Interruptions
Other peoples small
problems
Peer pressure

Too much TV
Endless phone calls
Excessive computer
games
Retail therapy
Other time wasters

The Time Management Matrix

Urgent

Not Important

Important

I The Procrastinator
Stress
Burnout
Crisis management
Always putting out fires

III The Yes-man

Short-term focus
Crisis management
Reputation-chameleon type
character
See goals and plans as worthless
Feel victimized, out of control
Shallow or broken relationships

Not Urgent
II The Visionary
Vision, perspective
Balance
Discipline
Control
Few crises

IV The Slacker

Total irresponsibility
Fired from jobs
Dependent on others or
institutions for basics

Short term & Long

term goals
What is the most productive thing that you can be
doing with your time right now?
What can you do in the next 10 minutes?
What can you do today?
What can you do this week?
What can you do this month?
What can you do this term?
What can you do this year?
What can you do in the next 10 years?

Private Victory
H1. Be proactive you are the programmer

H3. First things first

You run the program

H2. End in mind

write the program

habit 4, 5 and 6 Public Victory

Public Victory The

art of influencing
H5.
H5.Seek
Seek1st
1stto
to
Understand
Understandand
and
then
to
be
understood
then to be understood

H4.
H4.Win/Win
Win/Win

H6.
H6.Synergy
Synergy

Role Play H4, 5 & 6

Groups of 3: Parent, teacher and observer.

Parent teacher confrontation. Refer to notes.

habit 7 Sharpen the saw

Physical
Exercise, Nutrition
Stress Management

PQ

To Live Social/Emotional

Mental
Reading, Visualizing
Planning, Writing

IQ

To Learn

Habit 7

Service, Empathy
Synergy, Intrinsic Security

Spiritual
Value Clarification
& Commitment, Study
& Meditation

SQ

To Leave
a Legacy

EQ

To Love

Activities to
develop intelligence
Mental
Action planning
Time management
Strategy games-chess/bridge
Reading (non fiction)
Reviewing
Gathering information
Clearing clutter
Ordering/tidying up
Organising wardrobe/desk

Physical
Competitive sport
Working out-Gym
Martial arts- Karate
Physical tasks/ targets
Extreme sports
Archery/shooting
Hunting/fishing
Mountaineering
Studying body language

Activities to
develop intelligence
Spiritual
Dhikr / Reading Quran
Relaxation / Meditation
Walk in nature
Being in or near water
Slow hot both
Proper diet
Gardening
Massage- Aromatherapy
Tai Chi/ Meditation
Quiet time with family

Social/Emotional
Artistic: Painting
Poetry
Pottery
Amateur dramatics
Playing/ self expression
Spontaneity
Doing the unfamiliar
Brainstorming

Dependence

Independence

7 habits - overview
Habits 1, 2 and 3

Habits 4, 5 and 6

Interdependent

Habit 7

The pathway
of the 7habits