Session 6 - The Person in the Process
Activity 6.3.4 - Being Professionally Inviting with Others
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“The primary purpose of education is to summon people cordially to realize their potential … best accomplished by building on the three areas already considered. When these three are functioning at an optimal level, the stage is set for being professionally inviting with others.” Purkey & Novak (1996), p. 110 |
- Purkey suggests that success or failure in the education system depends on “situation-specific self-concept”. What are the four aspects identified as being the most useful for indicating the ways in which we as teachers can be more professionally inviting with others?
- What are the characteristics of successful students who score highly with the first factor?
- What are the characteristics of students who do not score highly with this factor?
- What are the things teachers can do to encourage student’s sense of relating?
- The second key factor identified by Purkey is ‘asserting’. What does this mean?
- What are the behaviours of assertive students?
- Why is ‘asserting’ so important for learning?
- What can teachers do to encourage students to be more assertive?
- What is ‘investing’?
- What are the behaviours of students who rate highly for ‘investing’?
- What are some of the things teachers can do to help students to feel as though they have more investment in their learning?
- “Coping is another name for school success.” (p. 117) What are the behaviours of students who are ‘coping’?
- “The feeling of competence gained through doing something that works … helps students discover that they can cope with life’s expectations.” (p. 117)
What are the activities that occur in your programmes that contribute towards this for your students? - Why is it important to point out student errors? How can these errors be pointed out in an inviting manner?