values for the yatra june 2011
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In this ISSUE
The Value of Starting Afresh
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Twelve Diamond Values
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12 Diamond Values : Summary
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12 Diamond Values: Project
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12 Diamond Values: Evalua-
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Way Forward 10
Diamond Competitions
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THE VALUE OF STARTING AFRESH “ There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting afresh ” Buddha “ Y our mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot anew, a thousand new roads become clear. ” Rumi
“ Don ’ t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful. ” Mark Victor Hansen The new scholastic year 2011-12 has just begun. Holidays and moments of relaxa-tion have now been relegated to a folder called ‘ memory’ . The race to knowledge has begun again… syllabi to be completed, deadlines for homework and assignments, tests and exams, discipline and demands, competitions and extra curricular activities. From management to teachers to friends… there is no alternative, but to start afresh once more!!! The educative journey ahead can be a joyful or joyless one. Starting afresh with joy and optimism triggers passion, commitment and smarter performance. A joyless person dwells in routine and pessimism that triggers boredom, lack of commitment and account-ability and declines in poor performance. We too, at the Archdiocesan Value Education Centre ( AVEC ) , would like to START AFRESH with new Hope, Vision and Purpose to be a hub of Value Resources for the schools and colleges affiliated to the ABE. To promote Values in a unique way, we propose the 12 DIAMOND VALUES. Through the “ DIAMOND VALUES: DEFINING LIVES ” competitions and our monthly E-letter ‘ Values for the Yatra ’ the AVEC will provide various resources to enable the teachers and students to imbibe the Twelve Diamond Values. We wish you a DIAMOND VALUED YEAR ahead and assure you of our constant support in this endeavor. May God bless you all Fr. Glenford Lowe sdb
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INTRODUCING: 12 DIAMOND VALUES
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12 DIAMOND VALUES: Vision & Purpose
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12 DIAMOND VALUES: A SUMMARY Nurturing Students...Values like Diamonds ‘Adamas’ are Invincible • Every School/College is a Diamond mine. They need to be discovered and valued.
Diamonds glitter when their ‘Interior’ is made manifest. Diamonds are so prized because of the light they absorb is reflected directly back outward.
• The word DIAMOND itself stems from the Greek term adamas which means "invincible", "unconquerable”, "proper", "unalterable", "unbreakable”, “untamed" or "I overpower”.
• Diamonds have the following TWELVE characteristics: Brilliance, Clarity, Color, Cut, Crown, Dispersion, Flawlessness, Inclusions, Shape, Sparkle, Strength and Scintillation.
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• Values are like DIAMONDS, they have the same characteristics…our Educative Environ-ments are Diamond mines...Like diamonds, our students can become INVINCIBLE with a return to Values.
• The Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC) invites every Educative Institution af-filiated to the ABE to join hands in promoting lasting Values. Academic Excellence devoid of Values is no excellence at all. Values, like Diamonds, are Invincible…. It is hoped that the AVEC will be able to motivate schools to become more ‘Educational Living Environ-ments’ in which Values must be seen to lie not only at the heart of the educational content, the “what” of Education, but also at the heart of the educational process, the “how”, the way in which education is conducted.
• Value Education, more than just seen as another subject within the curriculum, must be owned by all as the guiding ethos of education: an ethos that emphasis the importance of creating Educative Living Environments that are characterized by Values that are deeply Personal, Social, Cultural, Moral, Aesthetic, Ethical and Spiritual.
• In order to promote the Twelve Diamond Value Culture in our Educative Institutions, AVEC proposes the following DIAMOND VALUE AWARDS among students in each respective class. A novel way to build a Value based assessment of students!!! Join us and be together on the Diamond Valued Path ...Building a New Valued Humanity
• ~ Lowe Glenford sdb
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~ John Dewey
Education is not the filling of a pail,but the lighting of a fire.~ William Butler Yeats
Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life. ~ Frederick W. Robert
“If you know what your values are – If you know what your standards are – If you know what is important to you –
If you have a point of view – Then you have a sense of direction.
Then you know where you are going.” ~ Mildred Newman
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12 DIAMOND VALUES: The Overall Project
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DIAMOND
DIAMOND VALUE
OBJECTIVE
SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
ROLE OF EDUCATOR
RATIONALE
1 BRILLIANCE
Value of Modeling Good Example and Character
To realize the value of Role Models and the importance of Modeling.
To discover that my life
and example can inspire someone else.
To strive for Mastery
rather than medioc-rity
Encourage Role Models and Peer Energy.
Create space for
Students who inspire others.
Recognize stu-
dent’s overall performance.
Propose Good role models
Being an
Inspiration to students
Promote and reward Character formation
It is not enough to be good; oth-ers must become good because of me.
Living a life of
mediocrity is no guarantee to meaningful
living
2 CLARITY
Value of Accountability, Integrity and Honesty
To be accountable and trustworthy even in small things.
To live in wholeness
and truth always. To cultivate honesty as
an antidote to cor-ruption.
Provide opportune sys-tems for ac-countability.
Facilitate Integral
development. School as
‘Corruption Free’ Zone.
Transparency in action
An integral
personality Honest and sincere
Being accountable and responsible in small things there will be one less dishonest person and to believe that cor-ruption can stop with me.
3 COLOUR
Value of Social Harmony and National Integration
To enable students to live in harmony and be Peacemakers.
To actively involve
students to active citizenship
Classroom as a second home.
School as a
microcosm of culture
Educator as Second Parent
Educator as a
Peacemaker
No one is an island. Peace is our birthright and the Nation our motherland.
4 CUT
Value of Discipline and Right Choices
To recognize the power of Training in Disci-pline
To responsibly make
right choices with no regrets.
Proper awareness of school rules
An illumining
ethical environ-ment
Benevolent disciplinarian Counsellor and
Guide
Discipline liberates. Choices are never
consequence free.
~ Fr. Glenford Lowe sdb
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5 CROWN
Value of Leadership and Purposefulness
To develop effective Leadership styles.
To promote tomor-
row’s Leaders to-day.
To create clarity of
Vision and purpose in one’s live.
Establishing Student Councils
Effective Teacher-
Student Teams See the big
picture
Discover Leader-ship potential
Nurture seeds of
leadership to-day
Visionary Leader
Lead you life or someone else will lead it for you. Be the mas-ter of your own destiny. Think big to live big.
6 DISPER-SION
Value of Selfless Service and Making a Difference
To love being a person for others.
To start daily acts of
service. To leave a legacy for
others.
Each one reach one
Voluntary clubs
for social and political action
School beyond boundaries
Walk the extra mile
Catalyst for reach
out programs Be a Difference
maker
It is better to light a candle than to curse the dark-ness. Dare to be differ-ent and reach out to make this world a better place.
7 FLAWLESS
Value of Conscience, Renewal and Appreciation
To listen to one’s heart and make daily principled choices
To work on self for
daily renewal To focus on Apprecia-
tion of self and others
Defender of ethical values
Celebrate
student’s daily progress
Foster a culture of Appreciation
Example ‘Right Action’
Believe in change
of heart Language of Appreciation
We are all a ‘person-in-progress’. There is no such thing as a bad student.
Discover the good in the other and the vice will soon disappear.
8 INCLUSION
Value of Equality, Respect and Human Rights
To believe that we are all equal.
To understand that all
are worthy of esteem
To know and defend
the human rights of all
Zero tolerance on favoritism
Promote healthy
esteem for all Teach and defend
human rights
As one among equals
Give respect to
gain respect Defender of Hu-
man rights
The time is always right to do what is right. All life is worthy of es-teem.
Defend every hu-
man right and celebrate it. eave no person out.
9 SHAPE
Value of Health, Care for Life and Environment
To care for a healthy ‘body-mind-heart-soul’
To celebrate a ‘culture
of life’ To be actively involved
in Care for Creation
‘Junk food free’ canteens
Drug free Zone
Go Green cam-
paigns
Wholesome per-sonality
Guide and help to
break bad hab-its
Think Green…
Live green
All life is connected. All life is sacred. We need to nour-ish our whole self.
Our world is bigger
than my world. Think Global
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10 SPARKLE
Value of Silence, Peace and God Experience
To seek silence as a path to discover self and God
To find peace within
and without To be aware of the
Presence of God in one’s life and world
Moments for ‘Active Silence’
Non-violent Zones
Inter-faith prayer
celebrations and dialogue
Reflective and deep
Calm and serene Spiritual Guru
Noise defrag-ments, silence unites. Silence is the mother of reflec-tion and God ex-perience. Silence nurtures inner peace and leads to harmony
11 STRENGHT
Value of Love, Pardon and Reconciliation
To promote a Civiliza-tion of sincere love
To be the first to be
agents of recon-ciliation
To build communion
of lives and hearts ‘
Feel loved and wanted
Celebrate
forgiveness Peace making
Loving Presence Purity of heart Reconciler
Love endures all things. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is to live the law of the jungle. Forgive-ness is never a weakness.
12 SCINTILLA-TION
Value of Trust, Chastity and Friendship
To make oneself trust worthy
To grow in affective
maturity. To construct lasting
friendships
Gifting students with greater trust.
Education to love
Friendship clubs
Mentor and Guide Soul Friend Friendly presence
You friends are only an advertise-ment of who you are. Let your friends know the principles you stand for. Let your friendship be sin-cere and lasting.
I am going to be a DIAMOND VALUED student
Is there more to just studying…??? BOOKS & MORE BOOKS ...
School is so booooring…. Can I become a Diamond Valued Student too?
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Diamond Values and Characteristics Living the Diamond Values 5 4 3 2 1
1. Brilliance: Value of Modeling Good example
and Character
Progress from Mediocrity to Mastery
Capacity to ‘Model’/influence others for Good
Overall Character that Radiates and Attracts
2. Clarity: Value of Accountability,
Integrity and Honesty
Sense of Accountability and Transparency
Truthfulness in Lifestyle
Honesty in Word and Sincerity of Action
3. Color: Value of Social Harmony and National Integration
Lives in Harmony with Others
Free from prejudice of Caste, Creed, Religion
National Integration and Active Citizenship
4. Cut: Value of Discipline and
Right Choices
Appreciates the Value behind every Rule
Capacity to Align with Self -Discipline
Ability to weigh Consequences and Choices
5. Crown: Values of Leadership and Purposefulness
Courage to stand out and Lead effectively
Ability to handle Decision Making
Sense of Leading one’s life with Purpose
6. Dispersion: Value of Selfless Service and Making a Difference
Sense of Generosity and Volunteerism
Ability to Sacrifice to Serve Others
Ready to Make a Difference in Society
7. Flawless: Value of Conscience, Renewal
and Appreciation
Attuned to listen to One’s Conscience
Open to Self-Renewal and Positive Change
Appreciates the Good in the Other
8. Inclusion: Value of Equality, Respect
and Human Rights
Treats all Classmates and Fellow Beings Equally
Gives Respect and shows Dignity to all
Defends Human Rights of Self and Others
9. Shape: Value of Health, Care for
Life and Creation
Cares for Personal Health and Cleanliness
Lives a Balanced Life in ‘Body-Mind-Heart-Soul’
Promotes Care for Creation and Environment
10. Sparkle: Value of Silence, Inner Peace
and God Experience
Takes Time for Personal Silence and Reflection
Shows an Inner Disposition of Calm and Peace
Prayerful and God-fearing
11. Strength: Value of Love, Pardon
and Reconciliation
A Person of Heart and Loving Compassion
Eager to Pardon and Seek Forgiveness in return
Ready to be a Peacemaker and Reconciler
12. Scintillation: Value of Trust, Chastity
and Friendship
Is Trustworthy and Reliable
Responsible and Virtuous in Character
Fosters True and Sincere Friendships
Evaluating Diamond Value Students
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12 DIAMOND VALUES: The Way Forward
The AVEC proposes the following way forward in order to promote the 12 Diamond Values in your institution this year.
Link up with the AVEC for all the activities and FORMATION
programs that promote the 12 Diamond Value Program
through the Values for the Yatra, the Lesson Plans, the Train-
ing Programs for Value Education Teachers and Students, etc
Look beyond Academic Excellence….Start a whole new
Value Revolution. Make your Educational Institution a Value
Based Environment… Decorate your walls with Value Post-
ers, schedule Value based extra curricular activities, etc
Award students on academic days for LIVING VALUE
BASED LIVES. Use the 12 Diamond Value Evaluation Form
to maintain progress. Award 12 Diamond Value Certificates
to students who make a ‘ Difference ’ in and out of school.
Recognize VALUE EDUCATION though meaningful VALUE
EDUCATION DAYS in your institution. Focus on Personal,
Social, Cultural, Moral, Aesthetic, Ethical, Spiritual Values
during the school assemblies and extra curricular activities.
AVEC is a ‘ H UB of Resources ’ . We invite you to share
your Value resources ( skits, prayer services, etc ) with
AVEC. Our monthly ‘ V alues for the Yatra ’ is full of
valuable resources for your use.
Invite the AVEC to animate your Teachers / students during
the course of the year…. We are here for you!!!!
12 DIAMOND VALUES: AVEC AWARDS
AVEC will award 24 DIAMOND VALUE TROPHIES for 24 best Schools under the ABE that promote the
12 DIAMOND VALUE PROJECT during the scholastic year 2011-12 and participate in the various
“ D IAMOND VALUES: DEFINING LIVES ” Competitions.
CASH PRIZES will be awarded to Teachers who join the DIAMOND VALUE LESSON PLAN COMPETITIONS. Look out for details soon….
AVEC E-Letter ‘Values for the Yatra’ is an initiative to provide Animation Resources for Teachers involved in Value Education in the ABE schools/ Jr. Colleges .Values for the Yatra is published every month and is for private circulation. Your valuable suggestions are most welcome to as-sist us in making Values for the Yatra a useful tool of animation and bonding among the Management, teachers and students of the ABE schools in Mumbai. CONTACT: Fr. Glenford Lowe, SDB / Michelle D’Souza / Rochwyn Fernandes / Margaret Dubey / Sr. Vera AVEC—Don Bosco Youth Services, Matunga 400019 , MUMBAI Ph: 24154477 e-mail: [email protected] blog: avecmumbaidbys.blogspot.com
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Mr. Rochwyn Fernandes
Sr. Vera D’Almeida
Ms. Michelle D’Souza
Mrs. Margaret Dubey
Fr. Glenford Lowe