Sixth Meeting:
Excellence is a process, a commitment and a challenge.
“Excellence is the gradual results of always striving to do better.” -Coach Pat Riley
Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams and an assistant coach to another. He recently won the 2006 NBA Championship with the Miami Heat. Prior to his tenure in Miami, he served as head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks. He also played for the Los Angeles Lakers' championship team in 1972, which brings his personal total to seven NBA titles. He is also known for leading LA Lakers into back to back championship (1987-1988), the first team in 20 years to repeat as champions. Pat is widely regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time. (Wikipedia.org)“I do the very best I know – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.” -US President Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States of America. As a child, he has to struggle for living and for learning. His family moved to Indiana when he was eight. He described their place as a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. But even so, he still managed to read, write and decipher. He made extraordinary effort to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. Later he found work as village postmaster and as a surveyor. In 1834 he won election to the state legislature, and after coming across the Commentaries on the Laws of England, he taught himself law. Lincoln became one of the most respected and successful lawyers in Illinois and grew steadily more prosperous. Lincoln served four successive terms in the Illinois House of Representatives, as a representative from Sangamon County, and became a leader of the Whig party in Illinois. In 1858, he ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator, however he lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860. He was re-elected President in 1864. (Wikipedia.org)
“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” - John W. Gardner
John William Gardner was the former President of Carnegie Corporation, and US Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson. He founded two influential national U.S. organizations, the Common Cause and Independent Sector. He also authored numerous books on improving leadership in American society and other subjects. Gardner received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964, (it is one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States and is bestowed by the US President). Gardner’s term as secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, was the height of Johnson’s Great Society domestic agenda. During this tenure, the Department undertook both the huge task of Launching Medicare, which brought quality health care for senior citizens, and oversaw a massive investment in education with the passage of federal role in education and targeted funding to poor students. Gardner also presided the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (source: Wikipedia.org)Excellence is a process, a commitment and a challenge.
Pat Riley, Abraham Lincoln and John Gardner have proven us that achieving excellence is not impossible. To be one of NBA greatest coaches of all time is a process. He sees every game like the “Game Seven of the NBA Finals” and he takes every lost as a learning experience to improve his team’s weaknesses. Abraham Lincoln commits himself to deliver the best he knows and the best he can. This makes him one the excellent US Presidents. For John Gardner, excellence can be achieved by doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. It’s not impossible but it’s not easy either. Gardner is able to win this challenge by finding new meaning and reasons in doing every task at hand.To do good is innate among us. To do better, let’s explore our possibilities. Achieving excellence is a life time commitment to do the best we can.Challenge Yourself1. For one week, challenge yourself to:a. Get high score in a quiz or seatwork,b. To recite in class at least once in any courses;c. To submit a quality assignment or requirementOn your journal, process your experience with the aid of the following guide questions:a. What challenge did you take?
b. Were you able to beat the challenge? How do you feel about it?c. What have you realized/learned from your experience?2. Assignment for next meetinga. Read about the effects of smoking.b. Watch the film “An Inconvenient Truth”, starring Al Gore and directed by Davis Guggenheim.
On the journal, write your reaction to the movie:- The most striking scene in the movie- Your feelings and emotions while watching the movie- Your realization after watching the movie- The specific actions you can commit to take care of the environmentCenter for Student Development
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Fifth Meeting Questions:
Focus Values: Punctuality/Task Completion
Punctuality is the characteristic of being able to complete a required task or fulfil an obligation before or at a previously-designated time।
There is often an understanding that a small amount of lateness is acceptable; commonly ten or fifteen minutes in Western cultures.[original research?] In some cultures, such as Japanese society, or in the military there basically is no allowance.[citation needed]
Some cultures have an unspoken understanding that actual deadlines are different from stated deadlines; for example, it may be understood in a particular culture that people will turn up an hour later than advertised. In this case, since everyone understands that a 9:00am meeting will actually start around 10am, no-one is inconvenienced when everyone turns up at 10am.
In cultures which value punctuality, being late is tantamount to showing disrespect for another's time and may be considered insulting। In such cases, punctuality may be enforced by social penalties, for example by excluding low-status latecomers from meetings entirely।
In many situations the requirement for punctuality is asymmetric. For example, in a doctor's clinic or airport, customers are expected to turn up on time for their appointment or lose it, yet may be kept waiting for an unspecified time before they can see the doctor or board the plane. This can be regarded as an assessment of the relative value of the provider's time and that of the customer, the exact value of which can be determined by a combination of queueing theory and game theory.
If the relative value was different, it would be easy to reduce waiting times by providing extra planes or doctors, and under-utilizing them, at the cost of increasing the price of travel or medical treatment proportionately. This can be seen in the behavior of the wealthy, who can afford to hire private planes and have doctors who visit them, rather than vice versa, and in the extreme case of the ultra-rich, to have their own personal physicians and dedicated private planes and flight crews who wait on their needs exclusively.
This expression of punctuality as a relative valuation of personal time value may be the reason for the description, often attributed to Louis XVIII, of punctuality as "the politeness of kings".
Focus Values: Punctuality/Task Completion
Punctuality is the characteristic of being able to complete a required task or fulfil an obligation before or at a previously-designated time।
There is often an understanding that a small amount of lateness is acceptable; commonly ten or fifteen minutes in Western cultures.[original research?] In some cultures, such as Japanese society, or in the military there basically is no allowance.[citation needed]
Some cultures have an unspoken understanding that actual deadlines are different from stated deadlines; for example, it may be understood in a particular culture that people will turn up an hour later than advertised. In this case, since everyone understands that a 9:00am meeting will actually start around 10am, no-one is inconvenienced when everyone turns up at 10am.
In cultures which value punctuality, being late is tantamount to showing disrespect for another's time and may be considered insulting। In such cases, punctuality may be enforced by social penalties, for example by excluding low-status latecomers from meetings entirely।
In many situations the requirement for punctuality is asymmetric. For example, in a doctor's clinic or airport, customers are expected to turn up on time for their appointment or lose it, yet may be kept waiting for an unspecified time before they can see the doctor or board the plane. This can be regarded as an assessment of the relative value of the provider's time and that of the customer, the exact value of which can be determined by a combination of queueing theory and game theory.
If the relative value was different, it would be easy to reduce waiting times by providing extra planes or doctors, and under-utilizing them, at the cost of increasing the price of travel or medical treatment proportionately. This can be seen in the behavior of the wealthy, who can afford to hire private planes and have doctors who visit them, rather than vice versa, and in the extreme case of the ultra-rich, to have their own personal physicians and dedicated private planes and flight crews who wait on their needs exclusively.
This expression of punctuality as a relative valuation of personal time value may be the reason for the description, often attributed to Louis XVIII, of punctuality as "the politeness of kings".
Fourth Meeting:
1. Looking back at the list of your positive characteristics and qualities, what do you feel and realize about it?
2. The Golden Rule says, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
a. Given the following situations, how would you like to be treated by your teachers and schoolmates:
- when you have given wrong answers to the questions during recitation;
- when you are expressing your opinion during class or group discussion;
- when you are giving suggestions during group work or presentation;
- when you commit mistake;
- when you don't like doing what they ask you to do;
- when they want to give you comments or suggestions?
b. Considering the given ideas on how to treat others with restpect what can you commit to yourself in terms of dealing with the MCL commmunity: teachers, students, employees, security, maintenance/janitors and canteen personnel?
1. Looking back at the list of your positive characteristics and qualities, what do you feel and realize about it?
2. The Golden Rule says, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
a. Given the following situations, how would you like to be treated by your teachers and schoolmates:
- when you have given wrong answers to the questions during recitation;
- when you are expressing your opinion during class or group discussion;
- when you are giving suggestions during group work or presentation;
- when you commit mistake;
- when you don't like doing what they ask you to do;
- when they want to give you comments or suggestions?
b. Considering the given ideas on how to treat others with restpect what can you commit to yourself in terms of dealing with the MCL commmunity: teachers, students, employees, security, maintenance/janitors and canteen personnel?
Third Meeting Questions
Choose ONE and write it in your blog account.
1. Write your thoughts/reflection about the Freshmen Night using the guide questions below:
a. What were the things, scenes and events you have seen during the Freshmen Night?
b. What were your feelings/emotions during the event?
c. What did you like most about the event?
d. What did you dislike during the event?
e. What have you realized/learned from this experience?
f. Any remarks for the MCL administrators.
2. Write a reflection about one of your significant classroom experiences during the past few days at MCL. This could be something positive or negative. Use the outline below:
- the date/time of experience
- details of the story/experience (people, location, event/situation, reactions of the people around.
- your feelings and reactions during this experience
- your learning/realization from the experience
Choose ONE and write it in your blog account.
1. Write your thoughts/reflection about the Freshmen Night using the guide questions below:
a. What were the things, scenes and events you have seen during the Freshmen Night?
b. What were your feelings/emotions during the event?
c. What did you like most about the event?
d. What did you dislike during the event?
e. What have you realized/learned from this experience?
f. Any remarks for the MCL administrators.
2. Write a reflection about one of your significant classroom experiences during the past few days at MCL. This could be something positive or negative. Use the outline below:
- the date/time of experience
- details of the story/experience (people, location, event/situation, reactions of the people around.
- your feelings and reactions during this experience
- your learning/realization from the experience
Sunday, July 01, 2007
d crazy Princess
Name: Princess Mill San Agustin
Birthday: May 21, 1991
Age: 16
Hometown: Canada
Location: Laguna
Martial, the things that do attain
The happy life be these, I find;
The riches left, not got with pain;
The fruithful ground, the quiet mind;
The equal friend; no grudge nor strife;
No charge or rule nor governance;
Without disease the healthful life;
The household of continuance.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
That all men are nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, they enter in a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Of all forms of happiness to be accompanied by some great spectacular upheaval. One can imagine it flowering in the most luxurious setting. Yet happiness is born of a triffle, feeds on nothing.
So what else...Well nothing more. I'ts really nice to have a Princess around.hehe..
So what else...Well nothing more. I'ts really nice to have a Princess around.hehe..
出る釘は打たれる。Deru kugi wa utareru.
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