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Referees are those who to whom something is referred, especially for settlement, decision,
or an opinion as to the thing's quality or an official who enforces the rules in certain sports
contests. Sitting in a stadium or watching a football match on TV is very interesting.
Everyone seems to be enjoying the game...except the referee. Poor guy! He is paid to keep
the rules, to catch the mistakes. No one is more tense than the referee. While the spectators
are hoping for extra time, the referee is just waiting to blow the final whistle. Fouls have
been caught, players have been warned, suspension cards have been dished out. The referee
leaves the ground tired, exhausted, angry with everything around this wonderful celebra-
tion. Abused by players, booed by spectators and hunted by the press… the life of a referee
In this ISSUE is painful . There is very little appreciation for a referee!!!
Teacher: Coach or 1 Coaches, on the other hand, have a deep desire to draw out the best in each player. Mis-
Referee takes are opportunities to rediscover one’s strengths. A coach is someone who is involved
with others in a commitment of making the other person value-based on their individual
Wind Beneath 2 strengths and goals. Coaches help others find their opportunities and show unwavering
my Wings faith that every person they touch has the ability to be their best. Coaches possesses an
ability to manage the physical and the psychological environment in a way that creates
School as Home 3
change with clear standards of performance and measurable progress. Coaches are loved!!!
Teachers who spend their energy and lives as ‘coaches’ rather than ‘referees’ among their
Call to be Humane 4
students are the ones who really make the ‘difference’ in the lives of their students. As I
look back my own school days, I too can vouch for the fact
What is Essential 5 that the teachers who influenced me were not those who
possessed knowledge but those who had a heart to draw
out the best in me. And to them I would be ever grateful.
News & Views 7 It is time to throw out the ‘whistle’ and get back to
‘discovering the wonder in every student’… Be a Coach.
AVEC Seminars 8
Fr. Glenford Lowe sdb
Values for the Yatra
Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter September 2010
Here are ten tips that can lead to successful classroom management and discipline.
1. It's Easier to Get Easier : Manage with the Mind but Lead with the Heart. Know that the sacred lives
of the students have been entrusted into your care. Know them by name rather than by a number on
the roll call. Students don't care how much you know. They want to know how much you care!!!
2. Fairness Vs Favorites : I am my teacher’s pet. Students have a distinct sense of what is and what is
not fair. You must act fairly for all students if you expect to be respected. Remember you are a Teacher
for all. No favorites.
3. Deal with Disruptions lovingly : The Word in the Ear Students will always be students. They will
disrupt and distract your class. Remember a rebellious student in an insecure student. Find time after
class to give attention to them by building confidence in them by ‘giving a word in the ear’. Correct
them with love. A small word can transform the climate of your class and school.
4. Panic control: Save Face The Classroom must be a second home not a battle ground for winners and
losers. Order and discipline is necessary in your class. Be human and deal with discipline issues pri-
vately than cause a student to 'lose face' in front of their friends.
5. Add Humor not Sarcasm: : Poor teachers confuse good humor with sarcasm. While humor can
quickly diffuse a situation, sarcasm may harm your relationship with the students involved. Use your
best judgment but realize that what some people think as funny others find to be offensive.
6. Motivate for Excellence : Students are not stupid. They are only sleeping giants. Trigger the need for
excellence and draw out the best in each student. Be a coach not a referee!!!
7. Creative Use of Time: Let your classroom be a learning laboratory. Have plenty of creative use of
space and syllabus. Remember your kindergarten days…. Learning is maximum in an atmosphere of
fun and creativity.
8. Build Family Spirit: Develop collaborate learning than competitive learning. Invite the bright stu-
dents to adopt a weaker student. To go higher, students need to learn to pick up the other.
9. Make Rules Understandable : Every rule defends a value. Let students know why a rule is set in
place. Purposeful students are open to learn better. You play the parent figure. Help the student to
know that discipline is not the enemy of freedom.
10. Attuned to the Master Guru: All learning is futile if, at the end of the day, we do not become more
loving human beings. While we feed the intellect, we need to nourish the heart and the soul. Education
is largely a matter of faith. Have a primacy for God in your life and your students too will become
more god-loving. Your classroom must create a sense for the sacred and a respect for people of all
faiths and religious traditions. Fr. Glenford Lowe, sdb
Values for the Yatra
Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter September 2010
Education:
Call to be Humane
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and
come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in
schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
We teach everything in the world to people, except the most essential thing. And
that is life. Nobody teaches you how to be a human being and what it means to be a
human being. Everyone assumes this is something you have, or you should have
gotten by osmosis. Well, it’s not working by osmosis.
Probably the most exciting thing in the world is the realization that I have the po-
tential of being fully human. You must become the most beautiful, sensitive, won-
drous, magical, unique, fantastic person in the world to be able to have all of these
things in order to give them away and share them. Think about it.
WHAT IS ESSENTIAL ?
Leo Buscaglia
Right Knowledge,
to supply you with the tools necessary for your voyage.
Wisdom,
to assure you that your are using the accumulated knowledge of the past
in a manner that will best serve the discovery of your presence, your “now”.
Compassion,
to help you accept others whose ways may be different from yours, with gentle-
ness and understanding, as you move with them or through them or around
them on your own way.
Harmony,
to be able to accept the natural flow of life.
Creativity,
to help you realize and recognize new alternatives and
uncharted paths along the way.
Strength,
to stand up against fear and move forward in spite of uncertainly,
without guarantee of payment.
Peace,
to keep you songful, and laughing and dancing all along the way.
Joy,
to keep your continual guide towards the highest level of consciousness
of which man is capable.
Love,
to be your continual guide towards the highest level of consciousness of which
man is capable.
Unity,
which brings us back to where we started-the place where we are at one with
ourselves and with all things.
Values for the Yatra
Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter September 2010
Second Place Yuvraj Singh Bawa Holy Cross Convent, MIRA RD X—A
INTERS
First Place Manasi Devidas Paradkar St. Jude’s High School, Kalyan VIII—B
Third Place Adele Arianne Albuquerque St. Anne’s High School, Orlem VII
JUNIORS
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boards of the classroom but to inspire, motivate and lead the students to live Value-
centered lives.
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Values for the Yatra
Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter September 2010
BORIVILI & BHYANDAR Deanery: Aug 11, 2010 CENTRAL Deanery: Aug 13, 2010
SOUTH MUMBAI Deanery: Aug 25, 2010 KURLA—NAVI MUMBAI Deanery: Aug 27, 2010
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