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. . .
95%
100 Teach
80%
90 Experi-
ence
80 70%
Discuss
70
50%
60 See &
50 Hear
30%
40 20% See
10% Hear
20 Read
0
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 PUBLIC 6
VICTORY
Think win-win
4

Independence

3
1st things 1st
PRIVATE
1 VICTORY 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. ‘That’s 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 that’s 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 Desire
(how to) (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 don’t 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
Proactive Response
Freedom
to Choose

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

Reactive
Stimulus Response
 Internal frame of
reference / self-
referential 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 don’t much care
where," said Alice.
"Then it doesn’t 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
Urgent Not Urgent
•Exam tomorrow Planning, goal setting
Important

•Friend gets injured •Paper due in a week

•Late for work/class •Exercise
•Project due today •Relationships/relaxation

•Unimportant phone •Too much TV

Not Important

calls •Endless phone calls

•Interruptions •Excessive computer
•Other people’s small games
problems •Retail therapy
•Peer pressure •Other time wasters
 The Time Management Matrix
Urgent Not Urgent
I The Procrastinator II The Visionary
Stress Vision, perspective
Burnout Balance
Important

Crisis management Discipline

Always putting out fires Control
Few crises

III The Yes-man IV The Slacker

Not Important

Short-term focus Total irresponsibility

Crisis management Fired from jobs
Reputation-chameleon type Dependent on others or
character institutions for basics
See goals and plans as worthless
Feel victimized, out of control
Shallow or broken relationships
 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 H2. End in mind

You run the program write the program
habit 4, 5 and 6 – Public Victory
 Public Victory – The
art of influencing
H5. Seek 1st to
Understand and
H4. Win/Win then to be understood

H6. 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 Habit 7
Stress Management
PQ
Mental To Live Social/Emotional
Reading, Visualizing Service, Empathy
Planning, Writing Synergy, Intrinsic Security

IQ EQ
To Learn To Love
Spiritual
Value Clarification
& Commitment, Study
& Meditation
To Leave
SQ a Legacy
 Activities to
develop intelligence

Mental Physical
Competitive sport
Action planning
Working out-Gym
Time management
Martial arts- Karate
Strategy games-chess/bridge
Physical tasks/ targets
Reading (non fiction)
Extreme sports
Reviewing
Archery/shooting
Gathering information
Hunting/fishing
Clearing clutter
Mountaineering
Ordering/tidying up
Studying body language
Organising wardrobe/desk
 Activities to
develop intelligence

Spiritual
Social/Emotional
Dhikr / Reading Quran
Artistic: Painting
Relaxation / Meditation
Poetry
Walk in nature
Pottery
Being in or near water
Amateur dramatics
Slow hot both
Playing/ self expression
Proper diet
Spontaneity
Gardening
Doing the unfamiliar
Massage- Aromatherapy
Brainstorming
Tai Chi/ Meditation
Quiet time with family
 Dependence 7 habits - overview

Independence Habits 1, 2 and 3

Habits 4, 5 and 6

Interdependent

Habit 7 The pathway

of the 7habits