STUDY GROUP – 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEENS/ALEXANDER POND CURRICULUM
3/25/09 Meeting
· Debbie & Jill brought copies of the Introduction pages that we would include with copies of habit#1 from the book and disperse to the incoming 8th graders prior to going to Alexander Pond. This includes the riddle poem “What am I?”, followed by What Exactly Are Habits? and then a brief description of the habits of highly effective teens and the habits of highly ineffective teens (we changed the word from defective to ineffective). We also changed some of the names of the ineffective habits because we want to include an activity that would have the students identify each habit as effective or ineffective.
o Habit 2: Begin with No End in Mind becomes - Just Start
o Habit 3: Put First Things Last becomes - Procrastination
o Habit 5: Seek First to Talk Then Pretend to Listen becomes – Talk First Then Pretend to Listen
o Habit 6: Don’t Cooperate becomes – Be Your Own Island
o Habit 7: Wear Yourself Out becomes - Off Balance
The introduction concludes with a page on How the 7 Habits can help you…
· We agreed that we should purchase copies of The 7 Habits… for each teacher who facilitates at the pond: Frank M., Julie H., Roxanne M., Scott S., Maritza P., Heather S., Katie B.?, AJ R.? because as facilitators, it will be important for them to have the 7 Habits background.
· We started to look at the format of the days. We would keep the first 3 activities on day 1: Find Your Facilitator, Hike to the Pond & Name Toss involvement activity.
o 9:10 – 9:55 Intro to the Habits (all groups)
o Read the poem “What Am I?” - discuss
o Review – What Exactly Are Habits
§ Include Activity where a variety of habits are drawn from a hat ie. Brush your teeth every morning; play video games all night, etc. and have group determine which are good (effective) habits and bad (ineffective) habits
Covey Habit Match – Up
§ Draw the Covey Habits from a hat and have group determine which are effective & which ineffective and match them together.
o 9:55 – 10:30 Rotations – each group will be assigned a rotation from:
§ Fishing, Hike, Remote Control (we need to develop a remote control activity) – this would be based on Covey’s Habit #1: Be Proactive, What I know/H.S. Activity options
o 10:30 – 10:45 Break
o 10:45 – 11:20 Rotations – each group assigned to one from:
Fishing, Hike, Remote Control, What I Know
o 11:20 – 11:40 History of the Pond with Ross McGraw
o 11:40 – 12:10 Lunch
o 12:10 – 12:45 Rotations
o 12:45 – 1:10 Rotations
o 1:10 – 1:20 Break
o 1:20 – 2:00 Large Group Role play with processing?
This is a sketchy draft of the first day…
· For Day 2 we would develop a Circle of Control Activity to replace the sculpture activity. Each group would get colored poster board with a round circle and white circle center along with materials they could use to decorate. These would be presented by each group. “Who Control’s Who” poem could also be incorporated.
· Next meeting is Monday, March 30th - we will break up and start to work on developing activities… I will also invite Diane Arbes to talk about funding & training.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
STUDY GROUP – 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEENS/ALEXANDER POND CURRICULUM
3/12/09 Meeting
We reviewed the notes from our last meeting. We have some concerns about funding since we will need to train our Alex. Pond facilitators. I will invite Diane Arbes to one of our next meetings to talk about training options, supplies and funding. We brainstormed an idea regarding the issue of homework completion which seems to be a big issue for our at-risk 8th graders (and an issue with many students currently in 7th grade). We liked the idea of creating a homework club that would meet 3 – 4 days/week (Tuesdays would probably have to be left open due to faculty/dept meetings) after school for 8th grade only - Ideally manned by 8th grade teachers that might rotate through on different days. We would like to “mandate” the club for students on the freeze list and possibly train some upperclassmen as Homework Club tutors for community service credit. Teachers would need to be paid for their time = 1 teacher/day.
Brief Review of
· Habit #6: Synergize – presented by Matt Cicchetti
o Habit 6 is about working together and celebrating our differences, working as a team, being open-minded, and finding new and better ways to do things. We saw some benefit in working with the fruit activity which is similar to the true colors activity that the faculty and 9th grade summer survivor kids have participated in; however, we believe that as far as 8th grade and Alexander Pond are concerned, we need to focus on the first 3 habits – with possible introduction of the other habits later in upper level classes.
· Introduction – We thought we might be able to separately provide copies of the first three habits from the book with a brief introduction. The introduction and Habit #1 would be given to the 8th graders at August orientation so that they could read it prior to Alexander Pond. Deb & Jill agreed to work on fine tuning the introduction. We would distribute the copies during the “homeroom” period at orientation with Bonnie, Jill, Matt, Scott S., and maybe Julie & Roxanne distributing and introducing the info.
· Up next, we need to re-visit the Alex Pond curriculum along with the ideas we’ve brainstormed so far, and begin the nitty-gritty of modifying the curriculum to include some of the 7 Habits work. We will most likely divide up and work in small teams to develop new activities.
Next Meetings:
March 25 (after Right to Know)
March 30
3/12/09 Meeting
We reviewed the notes from our last meeting. We have some concerns about funding since we will need to train our Alex. Pond facilitators. I will invite Diane Arbes to one of our next meetings to talk about training options, supplies and funding. We brainstormed an idea regarding the issue of homework completion which seems to be a big issue for our at-risk 8th graders (and an issue with many students currently in 7th grade). We liked the idea of creating a homework club that would meet 3 – 4 days/week (Tuesdays would probably have to be left open due to faculty/dept meetings) after school for 8th grade only - Ideally manned by 8th grade teachers that might rotate through on different days. We would like to “mandate” the club for students on the freeze list and possibly train some upperclassmen as Homework Club tutors for community service credit. Teachers would need to be paid for their time = 1 teacher/day.
Brief Review of
· Habit #6: Synergize – presented by Matt Cicchetti
o Habit 6 is about working together and celebrating our differences, working as a team, being open-minded, and finding new and better ways to do things. We saw some benefit in working with the fruit activity which is similar to the true colors activity that the faculty and 9th grade summer survivor kids have participated in; however, we believe that as far as 8th grade and Alexander Pond are concerned, we need to focus on the first 3 habits – with possible introduction of the other habits later in upper level classes.
· Introduction – We thought we might be able to separately provide copies of the first three habits from the book with a brief introduction. The introduction and Habit #1 would be given to the 8th graders at August orientation so that they could read it prior to Alexander Pond. Deb & Jill agreed to work on fine tuning the introduction. We would distribute the copies during the “homeroom” period at orientation with Bonnie, Jill, Matt, Scott S., and maybe Julie & Roxanne distributing and introducing the info.
· Up next, we need to re-visit the Alex Pond curriculum along with the ideas we’ve brainstormed so far, and begin the nitty-gritty of modifying the curriculum to include some of the 7 Habits work. We will most likely divide up and work in small teams to develop new activities.
Next Meetings:
March 25 (after Right to Know)
March 30
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