Lesson – 8 POSITIVE THINKONG &RATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Objectives 1. To
promote happiness in the minds of students.
2. To enable students
to adopt logical/positive attitude.
3. To develop rational
and scientific approach in students.
If our life is bed of roses, the
roses should emanate from positive thinking and rational behaviour. The key to
success is to do the most difficult work with positive approach. To shun negativity
and to adopt positivity is the way to happy living.
Activity-1
How will you react,
when you are in the following different situations?
S.
No. |
Situation |
Reaction-1 |
Reaction-2 |
Reaction-3 |
1.
|
You
see an accident on the road. |
You
will get confused. |
You
will help. |
Call
someone to help. |
2. |
Someone
tries to allure you through superstitious tales. |
You
will trust him at once. |
Think
logically. |
You
will avoid the situation. |
3. |
You
fall ill before the exam. |
You
will avoid the exam. |
You
will take the exam with full determination. |
You
will indulge yourself in copying/ cheating. |
4. |
You
have missed the envisaged goal. |
You
will lose heart. |
You
will work hard to achieve the goal. |
Adopt
unfair means. |
5. |
Your
friend is in trouble. |
You
will ignore him. |
Help
him readily. |
Make
flimsy excuses. |
6. |
Your
classmate is weak in a subject. |
You
will ignore him. |
You
will help him to improve. |
Make
a fool of him. |
7. |
Your
class-fellow excels you. |
You
will feel jealous of him. |
You
will try to excel like him. |
You
will not react at all. |
Amid the above situations, students
with Reaction-2 pertain to positive thinking
and those with Reaction-1 are eclipsed with
negativity.
Activity-2
A student has much interest in
studies. He has no money or other source of income to pursue his study. He
finds that all the kids in his surroundings are engaged in studies and this
motivates him. He gathers courage and determination to go ahead with his
studies like others. He is hard working and honest. How will you help him in
the given situation?
1. Seek
help/co-operation from the teacher.
2. Help him yourself.
3. Seek funds from
classmates for his fees.
4. You will encourage
him to raise funds by doing some labour himself.
Which
of the above-mentioned options will you adopt and why?
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The teacher will ask
all the students to choose one of the above actions and discuss it with the
fellow students and get their help to improve/finalise their choice/option.
S.
No. |
Mistakes |
Steps
for improvement in future |
1. |
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2. |
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3. |
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Activity-3
Just imagine that your friend is watching
T.V. at his home and gets upset with the news coming from different channels.
You try to bring him to the point that news is sometimes misleading or
exaggerated and that he should drive away all the negative thoughts from his
mind but all in vain. What will you do vis-a-vis the current situation?
Put a tick (√) or cross (X) against the statement that suggest what you
will do.
1. You will console
him.
2. Suggest positive
thinking.
3. Suggest distancing
from social media.
4. You will inculcate
positive thoughts in him.
5. You will abandon him
in his gloomy state.
Regarding the subject, the teacher
will divide the students into four groups to assess their level of positive
thinking and rational attitude by allowing them 10 minutes to interact and exchange
views. Then the teacher will select two students from each group and ask them
to put forth their view points. During this session, the teacher will put forth
his/her own views or logics if needed. The objective of the whole activity is
to enable the students to control their inner mind and adopt positive attitude
based on logic.
All the students will
give their views with logic about importance of positive thinking in their
life.
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