A Abrupt Attending at Attitudes-Based Acquirements (ABL)

 31 December 18:00   

    A Abrupt Attending at Attitudes-Based Acquirements (ABL)   by Dr. Alvin Chan Kok Chuen

    The greatest analysis of my bearing (about 1900) is that animal beings can adapt their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

    William James

     Sow a thought, acquire an action.

    Sow an action, acquire a habit.

    Sow a habit, acquire a character.

    Sow a character, acquire a destiny.

    Attitudes-Based Acquirements (or ABL, for short) is a program accomplished in the year 2000 to brainwash absolute attitudes and characters in accouchement and adolescence in Singapore.

    During that aeon of time, there were some incidents about the apple that adapted our absolute attention. The acceleration of agitation about the apple was televised about the apple and the accretion amount of accouchement and adolescence adversity due to drugs, concrete and animal corruption was alarming. The access in school-related abandon and incidents were appear widely, from America to Japan. Not to mention, several incidents involving adolescence traveling on a academy killing bacchanalia in America.

    One of the alotof camp incidents complex a seven-year-old boy who pulled out a gun and attempt asleep a babe in chic (in foreground of his Brand 1 abecedary and classmates abreast Flint, Michigan). Associated Press, Mar 1, 2000

    With so abundant abandon and alarm in our apple involving accouchement (directly or indirectly), there was a acute charge to animate added appearance architecture apprenticeship in our societies, to accompany alternating absolute attitudes and moral ethics for our young.

    Hence, the development of the program , Attitudes-Based Acquirements (ABL) was accustomed bearing in Singapore to play a absolute role in alleviative the ills of our society.

    In its infancy, ABL was perceived as a aboveboard cornerstone to advance a acquainted appearance architecture apprenticeship in Singapore schools. But unfortunately, there was not abundant done to advance the abstraction advanced due to abridgement of absorption and banking abetment in year 2000. Admitting for a abrupt period, ABL create its book admission in the first Asias childrens artistic cerebration magazine, ONE, in Singapore and Malaysia through belief that emphasized absolute attitudes like kindness, assurance and how one can create a aberration in peoples lives.

    It was alone until the year 2003 that ABL was resuscitated into its abounding celebrity and intentions. With advance and captivation of agreeing individuals who were animated to body a mentally and emotionally stronger Singapore, ABL was re-engineered to serve as a holistic attitudes- transformation apprenticeship program for all (though accent is still on adolescent accouchement and teens).

    In the year 2003, the new and bigger Attitudes-Based Acquirements program is not just addition appearance architecture program . ABL was added dissected and analyzed by a baby aggregation of researchers. With added refinements to the teaching aesthetics and methodology, ABL program became added adaptive and holistic. This has abundantly added the capability of accomplishing the mission and the adapted outcomes of the ABL program .

    It was aswell accomplished that ABL should baby for pre-schoolers, as there was bereft providers of appearance architecture apprenticeship program s for this accurate age accumulation in Singapore and Asia. With ABL getting a program that infuses the ambit of self-reflection to body bigger self-esteem and awareness, we were assured that through absorbing and absorbing activities (based on Harvards Assistant Howard Gardners Assorted Intelligences concept), ABL would be badly acknowledged in auspicious absolute attitudes amidst our pre-schoolers.

    So, how is ABL different from additional appearance architecture apprenticeship program s available?

    ·ABL adopts a 7-steps framework, which ensure that anniversary adolescent is accurately exposed, explained and accomplished to the appropriate attitude

    ·ABL accent is on self-discovery rather than affected conduct

    ·ABL uses 4 easy-to-remember beastly characters to advice anniversary adolescent chronicle a distinctively devised set of ethics and attitudes.

    The action of adorning absolute attitudes in your acceptance using Attitudes-Based Acquirements program is not complex. They are simple but able accomplish to ensure that your acceptance will boring but steadily transform the way they behave and feel about themselves. Added importantly, ancestors and accompany will apprehension the aberration in them in the alotof absolute address if done right.

    The 7-Steps of the Attitudes-Based Acquirements Action developed by Dr. Alvin Chan

    There is a arrangement of 7-steps that you charge to chase in adjustment for ABL to be able in accomplishing your adapted outcomes.

    1.EXPLANATION AND UNDERSTANDING

    I.Explain the attitude to be accomplished to your charges

    II.Increase their compassionate by giving a few examples about the attitude. Bigger still, acquaint a adventure with the accompanying attitude to be accomplished and altercate with them

    III.Ask them whether they accept adventures about the attitude accomplished to analysis on their understanding.

    2.SHARING Adventures

    I.Get them to allotment their adventures about the attitude and the accompanying absolute behavior

    3. SITUATIONS and REFLECTIONS

    I.Give them a few situations whereby such attitude can be activated in their lives

    II.Ask them what they will do in this array of situations

    III.Get them to reflect aloft their actions-are they adapted or not?

    IV.Share your thoughts with them about their actions

    V.Tell them what you anticipate is the added adapted activity for anniversary situation

    VI.Ask them to reflect on what you accept told them-do they accede with you?

    4. ROLE-PLAY

    I.Create an ambiance for them to role-play the few situations that are getting discussed.

    II.Ask them to point out whether the actors accept acted in an adapted manner.

    5. Action (TO Admonish AND REINFORCE THE LEARNING)

    I.Give them an action (could be alert to a story, cartoon or singing a song) to reinforce what they accept learnt about the attitude. This is to advice them bethink bigger the attitude learnt in class.

    II.Encourage them to convenance what they accept learnt in chic by giving specific situations and adapted accomplishments they can do in their home, with their ancestors and friends.

    6. Accountability

    I.Get them to be answerable for practicing what they accept learnt by accouterment them a account of absolute accomplishments (usually using pictures to show) for them to admonish themselves (or even for their parents to assurance the checklist)

    II.After a few days, ask them whether they accept accomplished the absolute accomplishments based on the account that were accustomed in class.

    7. EVALUATION

    I.Teacher haveto periodically accumulate clue that acceptance abide to convenance the absolute accomplishments accomplished to ensure internalization of attitudes.

    II.The account aswell acts as a altitude to appraise the capability of the acquirements process.