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A presentation I did for over 400 teachers on March 17, 2012, at ROOT's International Teacher's Symposium in Islamabad.

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¡ NarejoHR,    § Established  2002  

§ Service  Offerings  

¡ Rahila  Narejo  § Chief  Executive  &  Lead  HR  Consultant,  NarejoHR  (Pvt.)  Ltd.    § Psychobiologist,  Univ.  California,  Los  Angeles    § Psychometrician,  British  Psychological  Society  § Certified  Balanced  Scorecard  Professional,  Palladium  Group  

§ Columnist,  Workplace  Sanity,  DAWN  Newspaper  

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Subject   Grade  English   A  

Social  Studies   A+  

Math   D  

Science   B  

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¡ What  do  you  think  will  help  you  to  be  more  successful?  

A. Building  on  Strengths  B. Fixing  Weaknesses  

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1.  Survival  of  the  fittest  

2.   Deficit-­‐based  remediation  

3.   Strengths-­‐based  development  and  application  

-­‐  Parker  Palmer,  The  Courage  to  Teach  

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¡ Diagnose  the  problem  

¡ Discover  the  cause  

¡ Address  the  weakness/problem  

¡ Describe  what’s  wanted  

¡ Discover  what’s  already  working  

¡ Find  strengths/solutions  

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¡  Spending  most  of  your  time  in  your  area  of  weakness—while  it  will  improve  your  skills,  perhaps  to  a  level  of  “average”—will  NOT  produce  excellence    

¡   This  approach  does  NOT  tap  into  student  motivation  or  lead  to  student  engagement  

¡   The  biggest  challenge  facing  us  as  educators:  how  to  engage  the  hearts,  minds,  and  souls  of  our  students  

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¡   “Individuals  gain  more  when  they  build  on  their  talents,  than  when  they  make  comparable  efforts  to  improve  their  areas  of  weakness.”  

   ¡  Clifton  &  Harter,  2003,  p.  112  

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“The best teachers tended to look for and appreciate the individual value of each student….they looked for the abilities that any person brought to the table.”

Bain  (2005)  

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¡  Problems  

¡  Attendance  

¡  Compliance  

¡  Putting  into  the  student  

¡  Average  

¡  Possibilities  

¡  Engagement  

¡  Motivation  

¡  Drawing  out  from  student  

¡  Excellence  

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¡ Connects  to  what  students  already  have  inside  them  

¡ Builds  on  their  prior  experiences  and  successes  

¡ Generates  positive  emotions  

¡ Fosters  a  sense  of  competence  and  confidence  

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What  is  your  

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¡  Know  their  own  strengths  and  how  they  combine  to  produce  excellence  in  teaching  

¡   Apply  their  strengths  to  each  aspect  of  the  teaching/  learning  process:  §  Preparation/course  design  

§  interaction  with  students  in  class  

§ Mentoring  and  advising  students  

§  Grading  and  Feedback  to  Students  

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Strength  =  

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Natural  way  of  thinking,  feeling,  behaving  

Time  spent  developing  talent  

Ability  to  consistently  perform  

Clifton  &  Harter,  2003    

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¡  Capitalizes  on  the  instructor’s  strengths  for  maximum  teaching  effectiveness  

¡  Connects  students’  strengths  to  strategies  for  mastering  course  content  

¡  Purpose:  to  motivate  and  engage  students  in  their  own  learning  process,  so  that  they  are  able  to  reach  optimal  levels  of  achievement  

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Fast, Direct

Closed, Task

Calm, Thoughtful

Open, People

Discover  Your  Strengths    

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• Identify  a  ‘challenging’  student’  

• What  is  the  Communication  PACE?  FAST  or  SLOW  

• What  is  the  primary  FOCUS,  in  their  work  and/or  

conversations?  PEOPLE  or  TASK  

• What  is  their  Style?  

• What  is  YOUR  style?  

• How  are  you  similar  or  different  in  your  PACE  and  

FOCUS?  

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¡ Unknowingly,  you  communicate  and  teach  according  to  your  style  

¡ What  is  each  style’s  communication  preference?  

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¡  Know  who  you  are  and  teach  from  your  strengths  

¡  Love  what  you  teach  and  who  you  teach  

¡  Know  your  students  and  how  they  learn  

¡  Focus  on  creating  an  intellectually  vital,  engaging  classroom  for  all  Strengths  

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Rahila  Narejo  Lead  Consultant,  Chief  Executive    

       

Email:    [email protected]  Office:    +92  21-­‐3530-­‐1060/61  

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