Positive Living Positive Teaching

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Positive Living Positive Teaching

• Presented by Kim Sherwood

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• Be aware of your thoughts,
• for your thoughts become
• your words.
• Be aware of your words,
• for your words become
• your actions.
• Be aware of your actions,
• for your actions become
• your habits.
• Be aware of our habits,
• for your habits become
• your character.
• Be aware of your character,
• for your character becomes
• your destiny.
• Author Unknown

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Whats Your Self Talk ? ?

• Self talk is happening all of the time
• It is either positive or negative
• Must identify your talk and control it or it will
  control you
• Worrying is negative self talk and leads to
  negative goal setting

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Attitude

• Attitude can be defined as your reaction to your
  environment
• Your attitude is created by your self talk
• Your attitude is contagious to all around
  you----Positive or Negative
• Your attitude is directly related to your
  self-esteem (your estimate of your worth)
• There is a direct relationship between
  self-esteem and performance

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Its Not The Journey Its The Destination

• Its all right to start intimidated, but dont
  stay there
• You must have a vision of where you want to be
  and what you expect to be like when you are there

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Have The Vision

• You must have the vision of what you
  want-----This is your tool for change
• Whats your ideal workplace?
• You have to PICTURE it,
• FEEL it
• READ it
• Once you have the vision, get the goal
  

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Setting The Goal

• Goal Setting
• Causes a problem for your mind
• A good problem, that your subconscious will try
  to solve
• Goals must be reset----(if Fri 3pm
• 
  is your goal....)
• Its only when you continually reset your goals
  that you will cause change and grow

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Prepare your Mind For The Interview

• You have to believe it
• You have to visualize it
• You have to see it as Your Reality

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Children may forget what you say, but they will
never forget how you make them feel.
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• Be Sure That
• Your School Is A Positive Talk
• Zone
• Feel IT-Hear It- Be Part Of It

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What will my classroom be?

• Let your classroom be the one that makes that kid
  get out of bed in the morning to see whats
  happening next
• Envision how you want your classroom to be and
  then set your plan in place to make it happen.

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• Success in teaching depends partly on what you
  know and partly on what methods you use, but most
  of all it depends on who you are.
• A teachers belief about students as persons of
  worth who can learn and profit from an education
  are more important than any combination of
  content and education courses.
• Lounsburys Points to Ponder