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INNOVATION IN PROCESS FELLOWSHIP 2009/10

A STUDYBY

Mrs. RENU VASHISTHAACADEMIC COORDINATOR

CHILDREN’S ACADMEYBANI PARK, JAIPUR

MAKING CHILDREN MORE AWARE AND DISCIPLINED BY

MAKING A BALANCE BETWEEN INNER AND OUTER

WORLD

ABSTRACTIt illustrates that :-• How the awareness of the basic nature of the soul

and its knowledge helps in improving the undesirable behavior of the students and makes them more disciplined.

• How exemplary teachers use the technique of self actualization in the classroom to reach students’ heart.

• How do teachers learn to transform their knowledge into representation that make sense to the students

“Don’t just invest on child, also invest in the child, “Investment on” gives outer prosperity, “Investment in” ensures inner enfoldment and lasting prosperity. True education is “investment on” the child complimented with “investment in” the child.”

Swami Chinmayananda

Scheme of education prevailing today

Develop competencies needed for material success in life

Nurturing of the basic nature is missing element in today’s education

We ignore that life and education are synonyms

• Violence is first born inside us and later on manifests externally

• Mind can be controlled by living in the basic nature of the soul.

Inner and outer world is always in a constant flux

How much to be grown inward?

What is undesirable behavior

• The matter of expression.• The foul smell of the manure can be

transformed into the fragrance of flowers.• Method of transformation /elimination

Because their decision making brain does not support them to discriminate between good and bad but their basic nature is moral and upright so they can be improved by taking

care of their basic nature.

WHY DO SOME CHILDREN NOT BEHAVE PROPERLY?

THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

• To examine how awareness of the inner world helps in making a balance with the outer world and helps in modifying the undesirable behavior of the students to make them disciplined.

• How does the calm and centeredness of the teacher helps in aligning the distracted energies of the children in a positive manner.

Strategy

Strategy instructions

Discussion, explanation, workshops, instructional

meditation

Modeled practices

Feed back to the subjects

Includes

Includes

Includes

An awareness program – Innovation WHAT, WHY, HOW An awareness program – Innovation WHAT, WHY, HOW Workshop- Self ManagementWorkshop- Self Management

Meditation Session for Calm and Centered EnergiesMeditation Session for Calm and Centered Energies

Tu pyaar Ka Sagar HaiTu pyaar Ka Sagar Hai

We are not punishedWe are not punished

We are exercising to balance both the hemispheres of our brainWe are exercising to balance both the hemispheres of our brain

Target population

(Teachers of Pre and Lower Primary)

Target population

(Teachers of Pre and Lower Primary)

Lower Primary sectionLower Primary section

Pre Primary sectionPre Primary section

“Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted,”

Albert Einstein

FINDINGS

• Various levels of calm and centeredness • Positive moral sprang up • Behavioral improvement of the students.• Positive moral became highly contagious• Teachers used to share their personal growth• They developed skills and implemented in the

class.

• Created a strong emotional bond for the children • Minimum amount of grumbling could be seen..• A change was felt in the appearance of the

teachers• Blaming to the students got over• Teachers started looking for the causes of

undesirable behavior.• Problems became challenges. • Reaction was replaced by response• Enhanced work efficiency • Corporal punishment was reduced to zero.

A gradual improvement can be seen in this bar graph. The undesirable behavior reduced from 31 to 7 students from November to March, a raise in the month of April and a fall can be seen in the month of May again. There is a reason for the raise in the undesirable behavior, that the school was closed for twenty two days after the examination. The students’ behavior could not be monitored by the teachers during this period.

• The teacher is the key in this study• Aggressive children need more help at that

particular moment• Teacher’s tried to look the situation through the

child’s eyes.• The child got fundamental guarantee that his

feelings are important

DISCUSSIONWhat makes this different from the other innovations

LIMITATIONS AND THE DELIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

• To make people understand the importance of inner world

• The parent body has not been involved

CONCLUSION

• We need to work persistently• Every child is born with the basic nature

teacher's need to ignite it• Students’ need to be enabled to explore their

inner world

Thank You