Believe in them until they believe in themselves.

Our topic for today's discussion is:

Believe in them until they believe in themselves.

💎 Mr. ASHOK KUMAR

Moderator

• AZEEZ: What does it mean and what have we do to?

The meaning: It is to recognise the hidden potentials in them and make them to realise it.

As educators, the most important rewarding part of our work is to recognize the vast potential within our students and to help them see it within themselves, and then support them in reaching that potential.

In other words, we need to help them cultivate hope.

We need to help them cultivate hope on their future.

• How?

Once we start believing others, in return they start believing themselves. Because they start acting to stand up to the believer's expectations. The only way is keep developing hope in them.

• What is hope here?

Hope is about one’s ability to achieve goals. It has been linked to greater academic achievement, creativity, and problem-solving skills, as well as less depression and anxiety.

• Hope requires two components: 

PATHWAYS AND AGENCY.

A “pathway” is a roadmap to reaching a goal, one that is created by the student and that includes alternate routes when obstacles arise. 

An “Agency” is the student’s belief, motivation, and confidence that he or she can achieve the goal.

• Mrs. Ishrat Tabassum: An Educator should be a good listener first,  listening is often the only thing needed to help someone. Students don't always need advise sometimes all they really need a hand to hold, an ear to listen and a heart to understand them. 

Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they possibly be.

Teachers need to understand that students take their words as the truth about each of them. Students think that teachers are the authority in their lives on their ability to learn. 

They need to support students and show that they believe that every one of their students can be learners and become successful. You never know what you might say that could be the thing to turn the tide for the good for a student, or could be the discouragement that leaves a student feeling inadequate.

This is instrumental in bringing out the innate potentials in the children that come our way. 

We as educators need to connect more with the children in our care so that what others are afraid of bringing out which is a desire of greatness in disguise we can reach out in love with extra patience to carefully nurtured and bring out in them INSHAALLAH.

• Mrs. Roma Narang: Either students or our own children always seek a space and person who listen and understand their heart & brain and prove to be torch bearers with positive reflections and suggestions where to move or not to move and why? Such individual mental research can bring out the potentials and confidence of a learner to walk fearlessly and logically. They can easily focus on their goal after getting a sense of belongingness from a true mentor. A true mentor can instigate a spirit of self confidence and they start believing in themselves. To fulfil this very purpose, parents and educators need to collaborate.

• Mr. S. C. Vohra: Thanks for the beautiful topic which emphasises the importance of early education. A child will never believe he possesses infinite potential until his/ her parents, teachers and people around him make him believe so. Abraham Lincoln’s letter to his son’s teacher is very apt to be quoted. 

“My son starts school today. It is all going to be strange and new to him for a while and I wish you would treat him gently. It is an adventure that might take him across continents. All adventures that probably include wars, tragedy and sorrow. To live this life will require faith, love and courage.

So dear Teacher, will you please take him by his hand and teach him things he will have to know, teaching him – but gently, if you can. Teach him that for every enemy, there is a friend. He will have to know that all men are not just, that all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero, that for every crooked politician, there is a dedicated leader.Teach him if you can that 10 cents earned is of far more value than a dollar found. In school, teacher, it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat. Teach him to learn how to gracefully lose, and enjoy winning when he does win.

Teach him to be gentle with people, tough with tough people. Steer him away from envy if you can and teach him the secret of quiet laughter. Teach him if you can – how to laugh when he is sad, teach him there is no shame in tears. Teach him there can be glory in failure and despair in success. Teach him to scoff at cynics.

 Another example of believe in them “At the very end of his life, Edison famously quoted: “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me, and I felt I had someone to live for, someone I must not disappoint.” Edison's mother's courage and constant faith in her son's abilities made him the genius he grew up to be.

• Mrs. Aruna Singh: Students at any age look up to the teachers! So we don’t have to look down on them but look in the same direction together. We as educators have to walk along with out any comments or advise. We have to give them the wings to fly , doesn’t matter even if they fall let them get up and repeat by looking at the mistakes done. Correct them, work with them and propel them. Usually we don’t listen and ridicule them for simple mistakes or stupid questions asked which crashes their self esteem and leaves them a bad learner for life. So encourage, enable and empower the children to be what they want to be. We as teachers and adults have to become the facilitators and stand with the ideas and the out of the box concepts so that we can find solutions to all the problems of the world we have to believe in them as they are our future.