HABEs
You Habits, Attitude, Expectations, and Beliefs are formed when you are five years old. It is important to recognize this and see how you and the students can be limiting your potential.
Toni,
Painting ones' self as a "similar other" can be very effective.
Jeffrey Schillinger
I have shared some of the challenges I faced when returning to school years after highschool graduation with some of my students, sharing that it was my thoughts of feeling overwhelmed that were the barrier, not the actual tasks to be accomplished. They may feel alone and could benefit from understanding that many others have the same concerns. We have graduates speak to some of our classes to tell their stories of struggles and defeats that they were able to overcome as students. This seems to be a motivating factor that helps to encourage current students to keep moving foreward.
Sadly, one of our fellow instructors creates HABEs for students regarding a certain part of the curriculum. He means it as a joke (sort of), but some students take it seriously. When they get to this class, they're either terrified and they don't try, or they're convinced that it's a waste of time and they don't try. The instructor knows it's a problem and has taken steps to correct the mis-information, but it persists. We are tasked with trying to undo the damage. Sometimes we succeed, sometimes we don't. Our course is the breaking point for many students.
HABE is a great acronym that brings the significance of mission, goals, and vision to staff as well as students. For faculty, it can bring transfomational leadership into the classroom. These are concepts that can carry the entire organization forward.
Ryan,
Many students come to us with some HABEs that are keeping them from being as successful as they could. How do you work to get them to abandon those HABEs and replace them with more goal-directed HABEs?
Jeffrey Schillinger
