The Impact of Teaching “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” on Students’ Performance in Academic Activity
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 6
Abstract
Abstract: In his book, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” Stephen R Covey claims that the Seven Habits, based on fundamental principles of effectiveness provide a strong foundation to flourish a person’s full potentials. He outlined the way to become effective and successful in each and every activity of daily life by introducing seven habits. His idea is well accepted and considered highly influential to enhance personal effectiveness. On basis of my 5 years teaching experience at BRAC University, I found some common bad habits of students like reactive behavior, propensity to compete with friends, less cooperative while working in a group, study more before exam instead of study on time, highly oblivious of their own fitness. In university, for effective learning in addition to classroom teaching many methods are being used e.g., assignment, case study, project work, flipping, reflection writing in blog. Moreover, in class group discussion and presentation, pair work, sharing reflection on selective topic are arranged to ensure students active participation. To cope with today’s evolved teaching system students have to be proactive, value driven and self motivated. Hence, Covey’s “seven habits” is being taught to second semester students as a part of Ethics and Culture course at BRAC University to develop a strong foundation of self-efficacy. The focus of this paper is to examine the impact of teaching seven habits on student’s academic activities. By nature this paper is descriptive, emphasized on quantitative and qualitative approaches where the tools are interview, reflection paper, discussion, observation and survey questionnaire. Keywords: Seven Habits, Behavioral Change, Effectiveness, Self Motivation, University Education.
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Md. Sayeedul Islam Khan
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