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Show Stents Study Profiles Many teachers encourage their students to work harder and do better by having them study profiles of successful men and women. NOW TWO teachers in White Plains, N.Y., are taking a slightly different approach. Paul Greene and George Cohen have found that students react better to success suc-cess stories if they understand under-stand that many successful people have had their share of failures. IN A seminar entitled "Getting It Together," Greene and Cohen remind students that Bobby Kennedy failed third grade and Albert Einstein was poor in math. Putting a new twist on success suc-cess stories, say the teachers, shows the students that failure is not a permanent condition. It encourages students to think about their own failures more positively and to keep trying for things I they want, even when success seems doubtful. THE TEACHERS say they started the seminar because they were convinced that many students were getting turned off by school and discouraged dis-couraged about their own potential. po-tential. Part of student discouragement, dis-couragement, say Greene and Cohen, comes from hearing too often about all the things they cannot do, not what they can do. In "Getting It Together," students begin to identify activities ac-tivities and goals that are important to them. They then think about and begin to emphasize personal characteristics that are likely to help them succeed in their goals. SO FAR, the nine-hour seminar has been offered to over 200 students in the White Plains public school system'. Students can take the seminar beginning in fourth grade. Greene and Cohen are convinced con-vinced that students are never too young to start believing in themselves. |