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The Choices We Make Determine the Quality of Our Lives

The Choices We Make Determine the Quality of Our Lives. Text nuggets from The First Days of School , by Harry K. and Rosemary T. Wong From the chapter, How to Achieve Happiness and Success as a Teacher. Virginia Player TEED 540.

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The Choices We Make Determine the Quality of Our Lives

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  1. The Choices We Make Determine the Quality of Our Lives Text nuggets from The First Days of School, by Harry K. and Rosemary T. Wong From the chapter, How to Achieve Happiness and Success as a Teacher Virginia Player TEED 540

  2. What a person chooses to do will greatly determine the quality of that person’s life. • Life fulfillment – some people become teacher-workers and some people become educator-leaders.

  3. Teacher Behaviors Teachers tend to exhibit one of three types of behaviors: Preventative Maintenance Enhancement

  4. The surest path to decline is to blame others for your problems. Protective behaviors include: • Rationalizing • Putting others down • Avoiding what is expected of them

  5. The surest path to stagnation is to do nothing or just get by. Maintenance behaviors include: • Coping • Hoping life and work will improve • Surviving • Going with the flow

  6. The surest path to success is with an attitude of enhancement and cooperation. Enhancement behaviors include: • Participating • Learning and growing • Contributing and being helpful • Being active in the school community

  7. Differences in statements • Protective Behavior Statements: “Staff meetings are boring and a total waste of time… I’ll sit in the back, or not come at all… I do my own thing… Do I have to do this?” • Maintenance Behavior Statements: “End this meeting; I have to shop, cook, and go to aerobics class… Where will you sit? I’ll sit with you and knit or read to pass the time… I’ll just go with the flow and do what the group wants to do.” • Enhancement Behavior Statements: “What can I do to contribute?... Tell me about your new idea… Let’s work on this project together… I’ll sit with and work with involved people… I want to learn.”

  8. Choose to own and exhibit enhancement behaviors As a result you’ll: • be more productive • achieve higher status • earn more rewards/money • be more professional • gain greater respect • obtain what you strive for

  9. How? Make this pact with yourself: • I choose to invest in myself so that I may increase my value to others. • I choose to learn and grow as a professional. • I choose to avoid thoughts and people who limit me. • I choose to work cooperatively with colleagues, family, and self-directed work teams. • I choose to stop blaming my circumstances and take initiative to CREATE my circumstances. • I choose to take risks to provide opportunities for growth. • I choose what I want to do with my life and then DO IT. • I chose to CHOOSE.

  10. Teachers who practice enhancement behaviors make an impact not only on the lives of their students but also on their own lives and the life the community. “What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the person who instructs the rising generation.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

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