Summarize:
I prioritize and focus on important things that I need to do first based on my vision or plan. I don’t waste time on small, unimportant things. I get things done to achieve higher levels of success and motivation.
The behavior I want change and my commitment:
I can tie this back to my previous post by noting that I have problems focusing because I get easily distracted. I want to continue my commitment by focusing on the important things first and not confusing the importance each task deserves in accordance to my end in mind. Furthermore, I want to continue growing in the maturity spectrum from dependence to independence.
What will I do for myself?
I will help myself to put first things first by asking myself the simple question: Will this task support my daily/weekly plan? If I answer no, then I will stop and find something that will. I will also allot a certain amount of time for each task I work on, so that I can easily notice if I’m giving too much attention to a simple, or otherwise, unimportant task. I will try to do this every time I felt that I’m taking too long on something. I see these things as simple changes that will help keep me on track and committed to this journey.
How will I teach it someone else?
When my students get to class I will begin by telling everyone that we are going to do an awesome art activity at the end of the day. I will hype it up, by talking about all the cool things that they will be able to use during this activity and ask if they are interested in doing the activity? When all of them, hopefully, answer yes. I will add it to the end of our daily schedule.
Our official start is 8:15 am, but almost all my students get there 5 minutes before. During these five minutes they are allowed to use any app on their iPad before we officially begin class. While this is happening I will ask them if they would like more time doing this before we start our day? I’m assuming that almost all of my students will say yes. Therefore, I will allow them to continue using their iPads. I will, then say, “ Okay, when everyone is ready I would like for everyone to quietly let our classroom helper know you’re done, so that he can ring our rooster bell. This way I know you’re all ready to continue with our schedule.” When they agree, I will wait patiently and observe.
I’m assuming my students will take a long time “playing” on their iPads and ignoring our daily schedule. I’m also assuming that my students will eventually get tired of “playing” and they will want to start our day. We will obviously start our day later than our normal time, which will push everything back. They will eventually figure out that we will not have time to do the last part of our day, which was that super awesome art activity we talked about at the beginning of class. Once I have the class bring this major issue up, I will ask them to go to our schoology discussion board and tell me why they think we did not have time to get to art today.
We will look at the responses and find a common response. I’m assuming they will point to fact that they used a lot of their time “playing” at the beginning of the day. I will then ask them what should we have all done, so that we could have done the fun art activity. This is when I hope they will say that we should have done what was on our schedule first. To which I will respond with an explanation and the importance of putting first things first, or habit 3.
I prioritize and focus on important things that I need to do first based on my vision or plan. I don’t waste time on small, unimportant things. I get things done to achieve higher levels of success and motivation.
The behavior I want change and my commitment:
I can tie this back to my previous post by noting that I have problems focusing because I get easily distracted. I want to continue my commitment by focusing on the important things first and not confusing the importance each task deserves in accordance to my end in mind. Furthermore, I want to continue growing in the maturity spectrum from dependence to independence.
What will I do for myself?
I will help myself to put first things first by asking myself the simple question: Will this task support my daily/weekly plan? If I answer no, then I will stop and find something that will. I will also allot a certain amount of time for each task I work on, so that I can easily notice if I’m giving too much attention to a simple, or otherwise, unimportant task. I will try to do this every time I felt that I’m taking too long on something. I see these things as simple changes that will help keep me on track and committed to this journey.
How will I teach it someone else?
When my students get to class I will begin by telling everyone that we are going to do an awesome art activity at the end of the day. I will hype it up, by talking about all the cool things that they will be able to use during this activity and ask if they are interested in doing the activity? When all of them, hopefully, answer yes. I will add it to the end of our daily schedule.
Our official start is 8:15 am, but almost all my students get there 5 minutes before. During these five minutes they are allowed to use any app on their iPad before we officially begin class. While this is happening I will ask them if they would like more time doing this before we start our day? I’m assuming that almost all of my students will say yes. Therefore, I will allow them to continue using their iPads. I will, then say, “ Okay, when everyone is ready I would like for everyone to quietly let our classroom helper know you’re done, so that he can ring our rooster bell. This way I know you’re all ready to continue with our schedule.” When they agree, I will wait patiently and observe.
I’m assuming my students will take a long time “playing” on their iPads and ignoring our daily schedule. I’m also assuming that my students will eventually get tired of “playing” and they will want to start our day. We will obviously start our day later than our normal time, which will push everything back. They will eventually figure out that we will not have time to do the last part of our day, which was that super awesome art activity we talked about at the beginning of class. Once I have the class bring this major issue up, I will ask them to go to our schoology discussion board and tell me why they think we did not have time to get to art today.
We will look at the responses and find a common response. I’m assuming they will point to fact that they used a lot of their time “playing” at the beginning of the day. I will then ask them what should we have all done, so that we could have done the fun art activity. This is when I hope they will say that we should have done what was on our schedule first. To which I will respond with an explanation and the importance of putting first things first, or habit 3.