Changing habits:
One terrible habit that I practice is: waiting to organize. I love having things organized, having things be in their place at all times and having them be neat. It may stem from childhood, not sure, but it is how I function. Despite this inherent desire to see the world organized, I myself tend to let things gets fairly disorganized before I spring into action and organize everything. But, because I have let things become so disorganized, I end up spending quite a bit of time organizing everything again. Sometimes resulting in hours spent trying to get everything in order.
Instead of letting things get overly disorganized, I would like to be more proactive about daily organizing. I will be setting aside a few minutes each day (about 5-10 minutes per area) to organize things. From my classroom to my home office, I will focus for just a few minutes on organization. Hopefully this will result in fewer entire days spent cleaning and organizing. Also, things should look cleaner and neater for longer.
Teaching to others:
I will be attempting to teach this habit to a few of my students: the ones that blame others when they get in trouble for talking. Hopefully, by teaching them to be more proactive when doing independent work, they will cause less noise disturbances to others and be able to complete the work fully.
I will pull aside the group of 4-5 students twice a week for 10 minutes to have a little discussion on the importance of doing things correctly. Such as when someone talks to you, you have a few options: ignore, move away, or tell an adult. All of those options do not include continuing the conversation! By providing them the options and having them practice with each other how to carry out proactive behaviors, they should slowly start changing their habits to more positive ones.
One terrible habit that I practice is: waiting to organize. I love having things organized, having things be in their place at all times and having them be neat. It may stem from childhood, not sure, but it is how I function. Despite this inherent desire to see the world organized, I myself tend to let things gets fairly disorganized before I spring into action and organize everything. But, because I have let things become so disorganized, I end up spending quite a bit of time organizing everything again. Sometimes resulting in hours spent trying to get everything in order.
Instead of letting things get overly disorganized, I would like to be more proactive about daily organizing. I will be setting aside a few minutes each day (about 5-10 minutes per area) to organize things. From my classroom to my home office, I will focus for just a few minutes on organization. Hopefully this will result in fewer entire days spent cleaning and organizing. Also, things should look cleaner and neater for longer.
Teaching to others:
I will be attempting to teach this habit to a few of my students: the ones that blame others when they get in trouble for talking. Hopefully, by teaching them to be more proactive when doing independent work, they will cause less noise disturbances to others and be able to complete the work fully.
I will pull aside the group of 4-5 students twice a week for 10 minutes to have a little discussion on the importance of doing things correctly. Such as when someone talks to you, you have a few options: ignore, move away, or tell an adult. All of those options do not include continuing the conversation! By providing them the options and having them practice with each other how to carry out proactive behaviors, they should slowly start changing their habits to more positive ones.