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Course Goals
The emphasis of this course is on practical techniques that will help your students increase their self-responsible behaviors and assume increasing amounts of control over their school lives. The main goal of this course is to help you become proficient in using those skills with your students and teaching students to use them too.
This course will help you:
- Create a learning environment that models, invites, and teaches self-responsible behaviors.
- Assist your students to grow in their appreciation and use of
self-responsibility.
- Learn strategies for defining, teaching, and debriefing responsibility.
- Cope with irresponsible behaviors in respectful, helpful ways.
- Prevent power struggles and “power failures” in your classroom.
- Reduce educational enabling and stamp out “learned helplessness.”
- Help students create an inner sense of personal power.
- Encourage students to give up their “victim stance” and assume increasing responsibility for their school experience.
- Show students how to develop an “I Can” stance toward life through the use of mind skills and self-responsible language.
The course will also help you professionally by helping you:
- Develop personal energy and take actions that show self-determination.
- Take responsibility for your relationships with students, parents, colleagues, and administrators.
- Bring independent thinking, innovation, and creativity to your professional practice.
- Become proactive rather than reactive with problems.
- Become clear on “what is” and “what is not” within your power and take appropriate steps to use the power you have.
- Develop a high level of purpose and choose behaviors congruent with that purpose.
- Experience yourself as the source of your actions.
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