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Equipping Our Children with Confidence
Liz Falco, ASP Volunteer Consultant in Education November 25, 2013
Why Tyndale?
• Circle Map • Personal Story
Why Confidence??
• Confidence + Competence = “Glow” • Confidence for all: students, parents and teachers • Partnership: Tyndale St. Georges Community Centre
+ National Urban Alliance for Effective Education (Veronica McDermott)
• Adopted by the Department of Children, Youth & Families
What is the Pedagogy of Confidence? • A neuroscience-based approach taken by the
National Urban Alliance (NUA) • Fearless expectation and support for all
students to demonstrate high intellectual performance.
• The NUA provides Professional Development, Advocacy and Guidance to urban and suburban public schools throughout the US
• Three Shared Beliefs
Belief # 1 Intelligence is modifiable.
Belief #2: All students benefit from a focus on High Intellectual Performance (HIP).
High Intellectual
Performance
evaluate
ques*on
understand
cri*cal thinking
communicate
synthesize
analyze
judge
cri*que
Gi$ing all of our children…
C
Cognition (Ways of
Knowing)
Language
Culture
Culture Belief #3:
Learning is influenced
by the interaction of culture, language
and cognition.
L = (U + M) (C1 + C2)
LEARNING
7 High Operational Practices (HOP)
S2 = Student Strengths Scaffold learning activities
E = Expectations of High Intellectual Performance(HIP)
R2 = Relationships Relevancy
V = Amplify Student Voice E = Provide Enrichment Experiences
A Teen Who Sees with Sounds
Ben’s STRENGTHS
Your Child’s STRENGTHS
Thinking Maps Visual tools that become shared language for
thinking, collabora*ve learning, planning, design and con*nuous cogni*ve development.
We use Visual Maps to organize our thinking.
Circle – Bubble – Double Bubble – Tree –
Brace – Flow – Mul* Flow – Bridge
Cycle 1 – Circle Map
Cycle 1 – Circle Map
Cycle 1 – Circle Map
Cycle 3 – Brace Map
Cycle 3 -‐ Bubble Map
Cycle 3 – Flow Map
Cycle 1 – Circle Map
Equipping Our Children with Confidence
Liz Falco, ASP Volunteer Consultant in Education November 25, 2013