Headline Jan 02, 2018/ ''' EMPATHIZE -STUDENTS- EMPERORS '''

''' EMPATHIZE -STUDENTS- 

EMPERORS '''

*MALAYSIA* : IN This very beautiful country, and its most gracious and peace loving citizens, the students, I sense are somewhat ready-

Ready : to go forth to new challenges, taking along with  them, the very best of what they have learnt on the World Students Society, and one of that is to take the lead in holding elections on the World Students Society..

Now,  If that be operationally so, and the students of Malaysia increase their engagement, and we need their leadership, to make it all happen, then the other countries of Asia will join up and follow suit in no time whatsoever.

The Students of Malaysia to the one last student, has requested me to express to the students of Proud Pakistan, and the students of the entire world,  their honor and their gratitude. And that I do so, Now.

To accomplish this formidable undertaking in a 100% transparent, authentic, verifiable way, I have set into a motion the legalities, the cells, the methods, the procedures and the honors. 

All will get published in due course.

But lest I get on with this research publication. I get to state that- 

*ALLOW me the honor to state right at the beginning that The World Students Society welcomes all. so called, ''bad seed students''.  

No student will ever be shown the door*.  

And having said that, I must also bring to your notice that...................

OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS - The World Students Society will *CO- CREATE* over 100 new ideas and- with a- conservative multiplier of 3, [placed along the way], over 300,000 jobs the world over. And for that the World Students Society honors and welcomes-

Mr. Wadud Mughal, CEO : *BETTER WORLD MAKERS NETWORK*, SINGAPORE. 

Mr. Wadud is highly skilled, IN FINANCIAL ENGINEERING as a Chartered Accountant, just as he is highly skilled both as a manager and as a leader, with a sterling background from SHELL. 

In due time, and in due course, you will be hearing more and more from him and about him, on global basis.

In the meantime, I stop to thank him for all his brilliant tutorials, his gracious hospitality and his total commitment to help the students, to help !WOW! fight global poverty, and to help build a better world.

All students of the world can most easily reach him:

wadudmughal@betterworldmakers.org.

And its not an easy world out there. 

SO, despite the Checkpoint Charlie climate in many urban high schools in US, where students are herded through metal detectors when they enter the building, suspensions are rarely prompted by violence.

Ninety-five percent are for ''wilful defiance'' or ''disruption''.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN students are hit hardest. They are more than three times as likely than their  white classmates to be suspended or expelled.

As a result, as early as middle school, many black students have concluded that when it comes to discipline, the cards are stacked against them. 

They stop trusting their teachers, and their negative attitude becomes becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. They fall behind when they are suspended, and many drop out or are pushed out.

GETTING RID of bad-seed students is supposed to benefit their ''good'' classmates, but that turned out not to be the case. When students witness their classmates being shown the door for trivial offenses, they worry that they maybe next.

Studies show they grow anxious and do worse on high-stakes math and reading tests. In short, this kind of discipline is a lose-lose proposition. 

What's to be done?  Enter EMPATHY.

The researchers created brief interventions that stressed the power of ''empathic discipline,''  including a 45-minute online tutorial and and one 25 minute module.

In a 2016 study : they had 31 middle school math teachers take the tutorial. The teachers read stories on how what looks like disobedience may reflect the ways teenagers are learning how to navigate the world-

Not as trouble makers, but as adolescents, testing out new identities. ''A teacher who makes his or her students feel heard, valued and respected shows them that school is fair and that they can grow and succeed there,'' one of the segment advises.

The results of this experiment wildly exceeded the researchers expectations -the teachers online experience halved suspensions rates. Surveys of the students also found that they came to respect their teachers more.

The most disaffected -those who had already been suspended -reported feeling more regard for teachers who had taken the tutorial.

This fall, a similar online exercise, designed by Dr. Okonofau and a colleague to help teachers appreciate how difficult -and how essential- it is to reach across the racial divide-

Will be rolled out in 30 middle and high schools that enroll more than 50,000 students.

FOR PROFESSOR Dr. Okonofua, it's personal. 

''I think about my older brothers, who were suspended all the time, and were in and out of trouble when they were teenagers,'' he told me.

He has set his sights high, saying, ''I want to close the black and white suspension gap.''

Hunter Gehlbach, an educational psychologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has also been researching empathy between teachers and students, and has come up with a different model for addressing it.

''WHEN I TAUGHT high school, I was fascinated that our capacity to read other people could be so high one day and fly out the window by the next day,'' he told me.

''I believed that if we could improve relationships, there would be a noticeable downstream impact''.

Dr. Gehlbach's ''aha!'' moment  came when he watched his 3-year old daughter talking with her best friend.:

''I like ice cream,'' his daughter said. 

'Í do, too,'' her friend replied.

The girls ran through the list of things they liked. -chocolate ice cream, their pets -and disliked.

When the friend said she didn't like pizza, the daughter agreed, even though she actually loves pizza.

''I was struck by the machinations these little girls went through to establish common ground,'' he recalled.

''I felt there must be something powerful in how similarities help us connect with others.'' And when he found research that linked similarity -commonalities as trivial as research participants' learning they had the same birthday -with building relationships, he was off and running.

Together with several colleagues, he set out to bring teachers and students in a large, diverse high school closer by giving them information about what they shared, such as a passion for music a wry sense of humor or even similar values.

Half a semester later, the teachers saw themselves as having formed closer ties with their students, especially those whom they might have initially perceived as being dissimilar.

''When we convince teachers they are actually similar to their students, there's a big effect on grades,'' said Todd Rogers, a Harvard Psychologist and a co-author of the study. 

If anything, that's an understatement -the students performance improved so much that the racial achievement gap at those schools was cut by more than 60 percent.

Those light-touch interventions aren't panaceas, but they may keep a great many students out of trouble and doing better academically. 

And they remind teachers why they entered the profession in the first place -to share knowledge and values. not to be disciplinarians.

With respectful dedication to the Leaders, Parents, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all  register on !WOW!  -the World Students Society and  Twitter-!E-WOW!  -the Ecosystem 2011:

''' Students Codes Honor '''

Good Night and God Bless

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