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DILIGENCE: Fully applying yourself towards fulfilling your
responsibilities
Vs. Unreliability
- SUGGESTED READING:
Responsibility
Any Sherlock Holmes Story
The Little Engine That Could
I Claudius
- SUGGESTED SONG:
Stepping Stones
FAMILY ACTIVITIES:
- Make sure that your children meet their household responsibilities
as they come up and don't procrastinate until unfulfilled
responsibilities pile up.
- Reward your children for being dependable and working diligently
in school and in their household responsibilities.
- Be a good example for your children by always keeping up with your
responsibilities, if you put off meeting your responsibilities you
are teaching them to do the same.
- Make sure your children are brushing and flossing their teeth.
Taking care of one's teeth requires great diligence in order to
obtain oral health.
CLASS ACTIVITIES:
- Make a special effort to keep an eye on what students are doing
during work periods, make sure that they are working when they are
supposed to. Take the time to praise students for working
diligently.
- Talk to your students about how much easier it is to keep up with
an on going task than it is to fall behind and have to catch up.
Create clear standards for classroom cleanliness, randomly check
student's desks and reward students whose desks are clean.
HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Have juniors create a schedule for completing their Senior
Projects. Pass these schedules on to their advisors.
- Talk to your students about your grading practices and explain to
them that the way to succeed is to work steadily over the entire
term.
"The first and greatest gift we can bestow on others is a
good example" -Thomas Morell
"Nothing will come of nothing" -William Shakespeare
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