Values for the Yatra SEPT 2010

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In this ISSUE

Teacher: Coach orReferee

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Wind Beneathmy Wings

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School as Home 3

Call to be Humane 4

What is Essential 5

News & Views 7

AVEC Seminars 8

Teacher: Referee or CoachOur metaphors in life often give a direction to the way we perceive, behaveand live. As were draw closer to Teachers Day, many a student will take thetime to express ways of appreciation. Appreciation would come on variouslevels: a few students may show no signs of appreciation at all, others only bydefault since it is Teachers Day, Some may go a step furtherexpress thanks

because they experienced sporadic moments of assistance. Only a few, honestly speak-ing, will be eternally grateful for every moment they encountered in school. Why is theresuch a difference in the level of our gratitude? All sat in the same class, listened to the

same teacher and studied the same syllabus. It isnt the content or the methodology of theteacher that matters it is the style of personal relationships that counts. Students dontabhor discipline. They know that rules are necessary for fair play. Students look up toteachers who, in their quest for excellence, drew out the best in every student. Students loveteachers who are coaches rather than referees in the field of education.

Referees are those who to whom something is referred, especially for settlement, decision,or an opinion as to the thing's quality or an official who enforces the rules in certain sportscontests. Sitting in a stadium or watching a football match on TV is very interesting.Everyone seems to be enjoying the game...except the referee. Poor guy! He is paid to keepthe rules, to catch the mistakes. No one is more tense than the referee. While the spectatorsare hoping for extra time, the referee is just waiting to blow the final whistle. Fouls have

been caught, players have been warned, suspension cards have been dished out. The refereeleaves the ground tired, exhausted, angry with everything around this wonderful celebra-tion. Abused by players, booed by spectators and hunted by the press the life of a refereeis painful . There is very little appreciation for a referee!!!

Coaches, on the other hand, have a deep desire to draw out the best in each player. Mis-takes are opportunities to rediscover ones strengths. A coach is someone who is involvedwith others in a commitment of making the other person value-based on their individualstrengths and goals. Coaches help others find their opportunities and show unwaveringfaith that every person they touch has the ability to be their best. Coaches possesses anability to manage the physical and the psychological environment in a way that createschange with clear standards of performance and measurable progress. Coaches are loved!!!

Teachers who spend their energy and lives as coaches rather than referees among theirstudents are the ones who really make the difference in the lives of their students. As Ilook back my own school days, I too can vouch for the factthat the teachers who influenced me were not those whopossessed knowledge but those who had a heart to drawout the best in me. And to them I would be ever grateful.It is time to throw out the whistle and get back todiscovering the wonder in every student Be a Coach.

Fr. Glenford Lowe sdb

Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC )E-Letter September 2010

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Top 10 Tips for making your classroom a HOMEClassrooms become easier prisons than palaces, agony more than ecstasy, and above all institu-

tions for conformity rather than a home for growth. A third of a students day is desk-bound. Edu-

cation is more a matter of the heart than an intellectual quest to satisfy.

Here are ten tips that can lead to successful classroom management and discipline.

1. It's Easier to Get Easier : Manage with the Mind but Lead with the Heart. Know that the sacred lives

of the students have been entrusted into your care. Know them by name rather than by a number on

the roll call. Students don't care how much you know. They want to know how much you care!!!

2. Fairness Vs Favorites : I am my teachers pet. Students have a distinct sense of what is and what is

not fair. You must act fairly for all students if you expect to be respected. Remember you are a Teacher

for all. No favorites.

3. Deal with Disruptions lovingly : The Word in the Ear Students will always be students. They will

disrupt and distract your class. Remember a rebellious student in an insecure student. Find time after

class to give attention to them by building confidence in them by giving a word in the ear. Correct

them with love. A small word can transform the climate of your class and school.

4. Panic control: Save Face The Classroom must be a second home not a battle ground for winners and

losers. Order and discipline is necessary in your class. Be human and deal with discipline issues pri-

vately than cause a student to 'lose face' in front of their friends.

5. Add Humor not Sarcasm: : Poor teachers confuse good humor with sarcasm. While humor can

quickly diffuse a situation, sarcasm may harm your relationship with the students involved. Use your

best judgment but realize that what some people think as funny others find to be offensive.

6. Motivate for Excellence : Students are not stupid. They are only sleeping giants. Trigger the need for

excellence and draw out the best in each student. Be a coach not a referee!!!

7. Creative Use of Time: Let your classroom be a learning laboratory. Have plenty of creative use of

space and syllabus. Remember your kindergarten days. Learning is maximum in an atmosphere of

fun and creativity.

8. Build Family Spirit: Develop collaborate learning than competitive learning. Invite the bright stu-

dents to adopt a weaker student. To go higher, students need to learn to pick up the other.

9. Make Rules Understandable : Every rule defends a value. Let students know why a rule is set in

place. Purposeful students are open to learn better. You play the parent figure. Help the student to

know that discipline is not the enemy of freedom.

10. Attuned to the Master Guru: All learning is futile if, at the end of the day, we do not become more

loving human beings. While we feed the intellect, we need to nourish the heart and the soul. Education

is largely a matter of faith. Have a primacy for God in your life and your students too will become

more god-loving. Your classroom must create a sense for the sacred and a respect for people of all

faiths and religious traditions. Fr. Glenford Lowe, sdb




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Education:Call to be Humane

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and

come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in

schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no person should ever

witness. Gas chambers built by learned surgeons. Children poisoned by educated

physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot and killed by

high school and college graduates. So, I am suspicious of education. My request is:

help your students to be human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters,

skilled psychopaths, or educated Eichmans. Reading and writing and spelling and

history and arithmetic are only important if they serve to make our students hu-

man.

We teach everything in the world to people, except the most essential thing. And

that is life. Nobody teaches you how to be a human being and what it means to be a

human being. Everyone assumes this is something you have, or you should have

gotten by osmosis. Well, its not working by osmosis.

Probably the most exciting thing in the world is the realization that I have the po-

tential of being fully human. You must become the most beautiful, sensitive, won-

drous, magical, unique, fantastic person in the world to be able to have all of these

things in order to give them away and share them. Think about it.

If I dont have wisdom I can only teach you my ignorance.

If I dont have joy I can only teach you despair.

If I dont have freedom I can only put you in cages.

But everything I have I can give away.

Thats the only reason for having it.


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WHAT IS ESSENTIAL ?Leo Buscaglia

Right Knowledge,to supply you with the tools necessary for your voyage.

Wisdom,to assure you that your are using the accumulated knowledge of the pastin a manner that will best serve the discovery of your presence, your now.

Compassion,to help you accept others whose ways may be different from yours, with gentle-

ness and understanding, as you move with them or through them or aroundthem on your own way.

Harmony,to be able to accept the natural flow of life.

Creativity,to help you realize and recognize new alternatives and

uncharted paths along the way.

Strength,to stand up against fear and move forward in spite of uncertainly,

without guarantee of payment.

Peace,to keep you songful, and laughing and dancing all along the way.

Joy,to keep your continual guide towards the highest level of consciousnessof which man is capable.

Love,to be your continual guide towards the highest level of consciousness of which

man is capable.

Unity,which brings us back to where we started-the place where we are at one with

ourselves and with all things.


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Essay Competition:Congratulations

36 Motivational Posters have been designed by AVEC not just to color the walls andboards of the classroom but to inspire, motivate and lead the students to live Value-

centered lives.

3 Dozen Posters will be available for sale at Rs 350/ at the coming seminars.Limited Stock Please Hurry .. Order from the AVEC Office



SENIORS Name of Student Name of School Class

First Place Saif Ali Nakhwa St. Josephs , UMERKHADI XB

Second Place Yuvraj Singh Bawa Holy Cross Convent, MIRA RD XA

Third Place Errol Fernandes Campion School, FORT XA

INTERS

First Place Manasi Devidas Paradkar St. Judes High School, Kalyan VIIIB

Second Place Alakh Naik St. Xaviers Boys Academy VIII 1

Third Place Adele Arianne Albuquerque St. Annes High School, Orlem VII

JUNIORS

First Place Priyam P St. Pauls Convent, Dadar VI

Second Place Priyanshi Pardeshi Auxilium Convent, Wadala, VIC

Third Place Rebecca DSouza Mary Immaculate, Borivli IV D


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10 Deanery Level Meetings for 219Value Education Coordinators

from 120 Schools affiliated to the ABE



ANDHERI Deanery: Aug 4, 2010 BANDRA Deanery: Aug 6, 2010

BORIVILI & BHYANDAR Deanery: Aug 11, 2010 CENTRAL Deanery: Aug 13, 2010

NORTH MUMBAI Deanery: Aug 18, 2010THANE Deanery: Aug 20, 2010

SOUTH MUMBAI Deanery: Aug 25, 2010 KURLANAVI MUMBAI Deanery: Aug 27, 2010


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Archdiocese of Bombay .

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CONTACT:Fr. Glenford Lowe SDB / Rochwyn Fernandes / Michelle D SouzaArchdiocesan Value Education Centre ( AVEC ) Don Bosco Youth Services,Matunga 400019 , MUMBAI Ph: 24154477 e-mail: [email protected]: avecmumbaidbys.blogspot.com



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POSTER COMPETITION

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