Motivating Students Psychologically

Teenage life – We think as a problematic Age or else Deviating age where usually they do not exhibit Clear cut goals.

But, do any one of us know why this is happening and what is the reason behind that???

After critically examining this situation, we find that:

1) Students see little value or interest in the course they study.
2) Students are de-motivated by the way the rewards and may be by the structure (Proceedings)
3) Some students do not perceive the classroom climate as supportive. They find it neither interesting nor creative.
4) Students have other priorities that may compete for their time and attention.
5) Individually, some students may suffer from Physical, health or other personal problems that can affect attention of getting motivated.
6) Some students are deviated by the surroundings and family atmosphere.

The problem with us (the teachers) is that we badly focus on student’s achievement rather than motivation. I strongly believe if the students are motivated, they will naturally achieve.

So, what’s the solution???….

(How we can make them achieve their goals in life…..)
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Enable them to build confidence and identify their strength.
Encourage them in their interests not on ours.
Empower them to utilise their specific strength.
Accelerate them by social integration.
Focus on their Element of Problem solving.
Give them the highest challenge as per their ability so they reach heights.

The life of a student is still maturing but not matured. All the above naturally works to inspire them internally rather than nag them externally.

Balijepalli VS Sri Ramya,
MS Degree College
Tolichowki Branch

Teacher should be the source of construction of students’ future

Becoming a teacher was never my dream. But destiny somehow pushed me here. There were many challenges that came across while teaching. What made me continue my journey are students. They kept on giving me reasons to grow professionally. But I think this profession needs updation more frequently than any other. You cannot remain same all the time. But what does not change is their love towards students. I always enjoyed being a teacher and that is the reason my students enjoy in class. But what makes me sad is those students who are talented but is shy.Designed by Brgfx

We teachers are more interested only in marks of very good students. And in all this we neglect those students who lag behind. For those students we teachers are partial. They don’t want to perform just because they don’t like us. They only need little attention from us, little love from us and little faith on them. Sometimes we make fun of them.

We have to become honest in our profession. We have to develop confidence in every student. Although it’ s not easy, but at least we should not hurt any student so much that he or she closes himself or herself in a box. The best way we should talk them individually. Appreciate such students wherever possible. We should become the source of construction of their future not of destruction.

MS. Fauzia Sultan,
Zakir Nagar, (Delhi)

IMPORTANCE OF TEAMWORK IN ISLAM

Working together is an important aspect in Islam and it has always been emphasized to work as a team. Working in a team makes sense because it is close to impossible to survive on one’s own. A lot of good can come out of hanging on together and helping each other out is times of difficulties. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) also urged Muslims to work together as team. In one of the Hadiths, he said, “Faith Believers are to each other as a brick of a wall, supporting and reinforcing each other“.

MS teachers also believe that the greatest resource that they (teachers) have is other Teachers. Acting on this philosophy, our branch teachers have started sessions for sharing ideas to help students better. In such sessions, each teacher discusses his/her method of teaching and train others to grow professionally.

Mrs. Ruquiya Butul,
VP, MS Creative School
Shahalibanda Branch

Discover Yourself

“I am me, you are you, thank you Allah you made me”.

This is the hymn my daughter would sing every morning when she would go to school. At that moment she did not understand the depth and wonderful meaning of these lines; but often ponder on them.

“I am me “__ a unique creation of Allah with our personality and talent and purpose in life. No one can replace me as Allah’s plan for the world.

What a pity! So many of us even don’t know who we really are and what our purpose is in this life. Oh! How blindly we follow the latest fashion and fads and do the “n” number of things that everyone else is doing. How readily we destroy our beautiful, uniqueness by becoming one of the crowd!

Frustration in people in today’s world is a common phenomenon. This is because there is no realization among us. We have not discovered ourselves. If we spend at least ten minutes a day in silence and look inward, we will soon unearth our precious self.

Only then we will realize that one Abdul Kalam, one Shahrukh Khan, one Ashwariya Rai or even one Mother Teresa are created by Allah as a component of the wonder of jigsaw puzzle which is the world.

Do you want to see Allah’s jigsaw puzzle incomplete, surely not! So find yourself in order to fit perfectly into the place meant for you.

Remember our esteemed chairman’s word:
“I don’t want to be one in the crowd, I want to be above the crowd”.

Mrs. Radha Vedha (Social studies Teacher )
Akbarbagh Boys branch

Classroom Management

Good classroom management doesn’t just happen; we have to work at it. Every teacher faces a challenge when it comes to managing his or her classroom. The decisions and actions a teacher takes in this area can be the difference between peaceful productivity and complete chaos. The actions and attitudes of the teacher during the first few class sessions set the tone for the rest of the term. There are some points that should be considered while it comes to classroom management.

Rules

For most teachers, the foundation of a managed classroom is a clear set of rules and consequences. Teachers need to establish general rules of conduct to ensure the classroom runs smoothly. The strategy for creating rules could also be used to determine routines for each class.

Learning Environment

The learning environment is the way the classroom works and feels. It includes the physical environment as well as the social or emotional environment within the classroom. Teachers want all students to feel motivated, challenged, supported and physically comfortable. The right management strategies lead to a positive learning environment, which promotes productivity and respect.

Student Engagement

One of the greatest challenges of managing the classroom is to keep students motivated and involved. In order to make students to actively learn, they must be fully engaged and participated during the entire learning process. If teacher successfully engage her students, it means that they are invested in learning.

Praise is a powerful tool

Praise can be used to transform a student’s image, uplift the entire class, and reinforce the values teacher seek to promote in her classroom or school community. When praising students, it’s important to be specific.

Involve the Parents

Parental involvement can help teachers understand their students, and manage them accordingly. Try to win over the confidence of the parents, and they would help teacher a lot in instilling values and good behavior in her students.

Mamaeen Siddiqui (Principal)
MS Creative School, Yamuna Vihar, Delhi.

Technology Addiction OR Times of Life:
The choice is yours

Technology has given us what we inherently crave for Socialization, Instant Communication, Knowledge, Entertainment and more. But it snatched our those tiny experiences that shaped our life. A few minutes of silence in lift, staircase, while driving, walking, before sleeping, after waking up to connect with Almighty or a few minutes of talk while eating, relaxing, shopping, playing, sightseeing to connect with family or a few minutes of thinking while cooking, lazying on couch, in bathroom, during breaks, at work desk to connect with ourselves and our lives. I call these breathers as the TIME FOR LIFE. These times of life are the oxygen for our relations, our mind, body, heart and souls.
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These times of life have been replaced by the gadgets for calling, texting, socializing, exploring and what not. According to Locket Mobile App, average users check their phone 110 times a day and addicted users sometimes check up to 900 times a day or once in 6 seconds. That’s is beyond addiction.

The world is getting engulfed with this addiction and its dangerous especially for the digital natives who can’t even move without the help of a gadget. Almighty ordained modesty for us and a balanced life. Extremism in any action is forbidden and we should be watchful of our own actions. Doing anything that doesn’t serve a purpose is like burning your hard earned money with your own hands.

In an experiments on WhatsApp addicts to shape their habits, he introduced a small task of reading Quran at least once in the day before checking any social messages. With a strong spiritual reason, they read Quran in the morning for a few minutes. This slowly became a progressive habit. In the beginning they could read only 1 para but gradually mastered half a chapter every day. And those days when hey didn’t read, they couldn’t touch Social Messages. To control the urge, they started reciting in silent times, talking with family/relatives and thinking in those times of life. Within 3 months their life changed for good and they felt more such energy, positivity, belief and intellect.

To reclaim our times of life for a life time we need to adopt the following golden rules:

1) Start your day with something productive for your body, mind, heart or soul like reading, praying, chatting with family, writing your thoughts, etc. Make sure you plan your day.

2) Divide your day for Self, Family, Work and Worship. Fix number of hours per day or week and be your own big brother to push yourself. You can also have a buddy who does the same and reminds each other.

3) Identify the times of life in your life and pursue them proactively as if you found a lost treasure. Don’t worry! You might look fake in the beginning but you and people around you will get used to it and it’ll become natural.

4) People around you might not respond as you are changing the mindset and going against the norm. It’s OK! Every great person becomes great because of the struggles they face. Go ahead! Be persistent! Remember, It’s all being recorded.

5) Fix time for your urge to check Social Messages including eMails. This world won’t stop if you don’t respond within few minutes. No official calls once you reach home. STOP and make the most of the times for life. For emergency, use SMS and communicate the same to your important contacts.

6) Finally, introspect your day before sleeping. Appreciate yourself by writing the words of praise in a notebook/Digi book for all the achievements and resolve to complete the pending ones. Don’t forget to forgive everyone before sleeping ahead of 11PM.

May Allah SWT forgive us for our mistakes, accept our efforts and bestow upon us all the abilities, skills and whatever needed to earn HIS pleasure.

Dr. Syed Misbahuddin
(Director)

Optimistic language can change the way the children learn

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. (Nelson Mandela)

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Communication, especially the effective communication is a vital life skill. It helps people to transact his day to day activity. To be a successful communicator one needs to have the ability to use language judiciously to communicate the message accurately, clearly as intended.

Communication is the interchange of ideas, thoughts and concept from one mind to another. Teachers use it in the classroom to share and develop understanding in the classroom. While delivering lecture in class many of us are unaware that we are addressing the minds and hearts with this powerful tool and hence are not very mindful of the choice of words.

Our language, as teachers, reflects and shapes not only how we see others but also how they ultimately see themselves. Our words must convey faith and optimism.

Using optimistic language in the classroom can change the way the children learn and respect themselves and the others.

A simple reframing of the words in our sentence, the way we address the students, can bring about a leap of change in their understanding.

As for example if we replace the words “problem student” with “student whose behavior I find challenging,” “low-performing students” to “students currently underperforming,” will bring change in student’s attitude and he will work to improve his behaviour.

The kind of language that the students use also can reflect the thoughts that they have about themselves and help the teacher to moving them away from negativity to positivity.

For example, if a child is struggling with a new concept he may say, “I’m never going to be able to understand this.” Here the teacher can help the child by correcting his sentence as such “you are having trouble with this today”

“We lost the game because we did not play well” To “We lost because the other team were better on the day.”

Teachers have the opportunity to reframe students’ pessimistic statements into more optimistic ones.
The power of optimism cannot be underestimated and the long-term benefits for students and teachers alike are significant.

Hence reframe pessimistic words with powerful optimistic words for a fruitful engagement of learning and understanding.

Tasneem Khan
(Content Developer)
MSRF, Corporate Office

Failure can be the key to success

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- Failure must be taken as a stepping stone to win again.
- Each failure takes you one step closer to success.
- One must not give up, but continue to persist, even if one fails.
- One must learn from one’s mistake.
- The same mistakes must not be committed.
- It must motivate you further to take necessary action to rectify the situation and thus be a winner.
- Failure is also necessary, In order to know what success is.
- You can enjoy the fruits of success, if you have experienced the hardships of failure.
- Failure paves the road to success.
- Life is full of failure this fact will never change.
- Successful people have failed on their way forward.
- Don’t let failure force you to quit.
- Failure will help you applicable success letter and learn more and discover new things.

Ayesha Zaheer Mam
(Vice Principal)
Mallepally Branch

TEACHER’S PLEDGE

Being in teaching profession, we need to regularly remind ourselves the purpose of our work, commitment, focus and to update our knowledge in the ever changing educational scenario.

I would like the teachers to sincerely take the pledge for building and moulding the future of the students with strong enthusiasm and dedication towards the goal.

I love teaching, teaching is my soul.
All my actions with my students should be with kindness and affection.
I will treat my students equally and will not support any differentiation on grounds of religion and language.
I will continue to build the capacities in teaching, so that I can impart quality education to my students.
I will encourage my students to ask questions and thus develop the spirit of Inquiry.
I will organize and conduct my life in such a way, that my life should act as a message for my student.
I should be clear about why I want to teach and should have a deep sense of commitment to fulfill that purpose.
I have to uplift the morale and enthusiasm of students who have low esteem and confidence.
I need to be flexible and approachable for the students to clarify their problems and doubts.
My motto of teaching will be “for the students, by the students and to the students.” To make education accountable and accessible to all, irrespective of caste and creed.

“ASPIRE TO INSPIRE, BEFORE YOU EXPIRE”

Afreen Almas
MS Creatie High School
Murad Nagar Branch

INTENTION – The first step to success

Everything we do in a day, in fact lifetime; begins with intention. We intend to get up, dress ourselves and go to school. We intend to take stairs instead of lift. Have salad for lunch and enjoy with friends. But the fact is we begin with intentions. We make choices every day.

As far as I believe, the result of the intention is sometimes positive and sometimes help us to improve something we’re not good at. Every day is a new chance to begin with the intent of having a great and a happy day.

We should start our day with the mindset that we will be successful today with a good attitude. “Our intention creates our reality – Wayne Dyer. Every morning you have two choices either to continue to sleep with your dreams or to wake up, make intention to chase the dreams because intention leads to behavior which leads to habits which leads to personality development which leads to DESTINY.

So wake up every morning and remind yourself – ‘I can do this’ with positive intentions to better yourself and the lives of those around you because incredible things can happen as long as you keep your mind open and your intentions pure. Just try to make intention for 28 days, which consumes 1 minute each day. It will turn into your habit and surely this habit can make your destiny beautiful!!!

Kahekashan Firdous (VIII F)
(Malakpet Girls block)

Motivating Students Psychologically

Motivating Students Psychologically