This document summarizes a study on improving student behavior and discipline through increasing awareness of students' inner nature and balancing their inner and outer worlds. The study found that as teachers developed their own inner calm and centeredness, they were able to align students' energies in a positive way. It reduced undesirable student behavior and corporal punishment to zero. The study highlights the importance of nurturing students' inner nature through meditation and workshops in addition to developing their outer competencies. While limitations included lack of parent involvement, the study concluded every child has a basic good nature that teachers can help ignite to improve behavior.

1. HAPPINESS
PEACE
LOVE
INNOVATION IN PROCESS FELLOWSHIP 2009/10

2. A STUDY
BY
Mrs. RENU VASHISTHA
ACADEMIC COORDINATOR
CHILDREN’S ACADMEY
BANI PARK, JAIPUR
MAKING CHILDREN MORE
AWARE AND DISCIPLINED BY
MAKING A BALANCE BETWEEN
INNER AND OUTER WORLD

3. ABSTRACT
It illustrates that :-
• How the awareness of the basic nature of the
soul and its knowledge helps in improving the
undesirable behavior of the students and makes
them more disciplined.
• How exemplary teachers use the technique of
self actualization in the classroom to reach
students’ heart.
• How do teachers learn to transform their
knowledge into representation that make sense
to the students

4. “Don’t just invest on child, also invest in the
child, “Investment on” gives outer prosperity,
“Investment in” ensures inner enfoldment and
lasting prosperity. True education is
“investment on” the child complimented with
“investment in” the child.”
Swami Chinmayananda

5. Scheme of education prevailing today
Develop competencies needed for material
success in life
Nurturing of the basic nature is missing element
in today’s education
We ignore that life and education are synonyms

6. • Violence is first born inside us and later on
manifests externally
• Mind can be controlled by living in the basic
nature of the soul.

7. Inner and outer world is always in a
constant flux

9. How much to be grown inward?

10. What is undesirable behavior
• The matter of expression.
• The foul smell of the manure can be
transformed into the fragrance of flowers.
• Method of transformation /elimination

11. Because their decision making brain does not
support them to discriminate between good
and bad but their basic nature is moral and
upright so they can be improved by taking
care of their basic nature.
WHY DO SOME CHILDREN NOT
BEHAVE PROPERLY?

12. THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
• To examine how awareness of the inner world
helps in making a balance with the outer
world and helps in modifying the undesirable
behavior of the students to make them
disciplined.
• How does the calm and centeredness of the
teacher helps in aligning the distracted
energies of the children in a positive manner.

13. Strategy
Strategy instructions
Discussion, explanation,
workshops, instructional
meditation
Modeled practices
Feed back to the
subjects
Includes
Includes
Includes

14. An awareness program – Innovation WHAT, WHY, HOW Workshop- Self Management

16. Meditation Session for Calm and Centered Energies

17. Tu pyaar Ka Sagar Hai

20. We are not punished

21. We are exercising to balance both the hemispheres of our brain

22. Target population
(Teachers of Pre and Lower Primary)

23. Lower Primary section

24. Pre Primary section

25. “Not everything that can be counted counts
and not everything that counts can be
counted,”
Albert Einstein
FINDINGS

26. • Various levels of calm and centeredness
• Positive moral sprang up
• Behavioral improvement of the students.
• Positive moral became highly contagious
• Teachers used to share their personal growth
• They developed skills and implemented in the
class.

27. • Created a strong emotional bond for the children
• Minimum amount of grumbling could be seen..
• A change was felt in the appearance of the
teachers
• Blaming to the students got over
• Teachers started looking for the causes of
undesirable behavior.
• Problems became challenges.
• Reaction was replaced by response
• Enhanced work efficiency
• Corporal punishment was reduced to zero.

28. A gradual improvement can be seen in this bar graph. The undesirable behavior reduced
from 31 to 7 students from November to March, a raise in the month of April and a fall can
be seen in the month of May again. There is a reason for the raise in the undesirable
behavior, that the school was closed for twenty two days after the examination. The
students’ behavior could not be monitored by the teachers during this period.

30. • The teacher is the key in this study
• Aggressive children need more help at that
particular moment
• Teacher’s tried to look the situation through the
child’s eyes.
• The child got fundamental guarantee that his
feelings are important
DISCUSSION
What makes this different from the other innovations

31. LIMITATIONS AND THE
DELIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
• To make people understand the importance of
inner world
• The parent body has not been involved

32. CONCLUSION
• We need to work persistently
• Every child is born with the basic nature
teacher's need to ignite it
• Students’ need to be enabled to explore their
inner world

33. Thank You