ENGAGE THE WHOLE CHILDEDUCATE THE WHOLE SCHOOL
PRESENTED BY:
Vicky Deans, Pam Harris, & Beth Credle
What is your definition of the Whole
Child Movement?
TURN AND TALK
WHOLE CHILD TENETS
❖ Each child enters school healthy and
learns about and practices a healthy
lifestyle
❖ Each student learns in an environment
that is physically and emotionally safe for
students and adults
WHOLE CHILD TENETS (CONT.)
❖ Each student is actively engaged in
learning and is connected to the school
and broader community
❖ Each student has access to personalized
learning and is supported by qualified,
caring adults
WHOLE CHILD TENETS (Cont.)
❖ Each student is challenged academically
and prepared for success in college or
further study and for employment and
participation in a global environment
SUPPORT OF THE WHOLE CHILD
MOVEMENT
BLOOM’S 3 DOMAINS OF LEARNING:
❖ Cognitive Domain- Involves Knowledge
and Thinking
❖ Affective Domain- Encompasses Feelings
and Emotions
❖ Psychomotor Domain- Involves Physical
and Spacial Capacities
SUPPORT OF THE WHOLE CHILD
MOVEMENT
“We must allow teachers and students to interact
as whole persons, and we must develop policies
that treat the school as a whole community. The
future of both our children and our democracy
depends on our moving in this direction.”(Neal
Noddings, Educational Leadership, Sept. 2005,
vol. 63, No. 1)
SUPPORT OF THE WHOLE CHILD
MOVEMENT
“Learning strategies that are high in student
engagement are grounded in instructional
objectives, provide clear feedback, and enable
students to thrive cognitively, socially,
emotionally, and civically.” (www.thewholechild.
org)
SUPPORT OF THE WHOLE CHILD
MOVEMENT
“Both history and common sense tell us that a
democratic society expects more from public
education: it wants graduates who exhibit sound
character, have a social conscience, think
critically, are willing to make commitments, and
are aware of global problems.” (Soder, Goodlad,
and McMannon, 2001)
SUPPORT OF THE WHOLE CHILD
MOVEMENT
“Teaching the whole child, attending to our
students’ development in all kinds of ways, is
what good teachers do, and creating conditions
where this can happen is what schools intend to
do; however, they may be distracted by external
emphasis on other things.” (Education Week,May,
2003)
How do we “Engage the Whole Child and
Educate the Whole School”?
We only have a certain amount of time, energy and resources.
At your school and in your classroom …
What is beyond your scope to change?
What can you change?
Turn and Talk
Results from Carol
Dweck’s Study on
Working Hard vs. Being
Smart.
You can read more about
the study in Mindset: The
New Psychology of
Success (2006) by Carol
Dweck.
Growth Mindset - Intelligence can be developed and leads to a
desire to learn and therefore a tendency to ...
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embrace challenges
persist in the face of setbacks
see effort as the path to mastery
learn from constructive criticism
find lessons and inspiration in the success of others
Based on the Growth Mindset Model by author Carol Dweck in Mindset: The New Psychology of
Success (2006).
Building Social and Emotional Skills: The
Power of Perspective
1. Feelings & Thoughts
Non-example vs. Example
Group Activity
2. Words
3. Actions
4. Choices
Source: http://projecthappiness.org June 12,
2013
----------------------------------------------Resources:
Reading Wellness: Lessons in
Independence and Proficiency by
Jan Miller Burkins & Kim Yaris
(2014); Stenhouse Publishers.
Project Happiness.org
What can I say to myself or model in a think aloud
setting to my students to Promote Positive thinking?
Instead of
I give up.
I made a
mistake.
This is too hard!
Try:
I’ll use some of the strategies
we have learned.
Mistakes help me to learn.
This is going to take maybe a
little more time and effort.
Student Goal Setting
• Goal setting has been widely recognized by
psychologists, coaches, business managers,
and others as a way to improve performance.
The benefits of goal setting have been well
documented in fields such as music, athletics,
and the workplace (Harrison, 2013; MacNamara, Holmes, &
Collins, 2006; Weinberg, Yukelson, Burton, & Weigand, 1994).
What constitutes a good goal?
According to the “SMART” approach
(Meyer, 2003), which is widely used in
management, goals should be:
Paul J. Meyer, 2003; Attitude is Everything: If You Want to Succeed Above
and Beyond. Meyer Research Group
:
Let’s Set Some Goals!
What Is a Professional Learning
Community?
Richard DuFour
People use this term to describe every
imaginable combination of individuals with an
interest in education—a grade-level teaching
team, a school committee, a high school
department, an entire school district, a state
department of education, a national professional
organization, and so on. In fact, the term has
been used so ubiquitously that it is in danger of
losing all meaning.
What is DuFour’s PLC definition?
• A PLC is a professional learning
community consisting of approximately
8-12 educators who meet on a regular
basis
• The team is composed of the same
curriculum educators or ones with
common interest.
PLC Continued...
• Provide a context to understand our work with
students, our relationships with peers, and
our thoughts, assumptions, and beliefs about
teaching and learning
• Help educators help each other turn theories
into practice and standards into actual student
learning
• Improve teaching and learning
Questions to consider:
• What role does goal setting play in the
classroom?
• What role should it play?
Research states…
• Research suggests that teaching
students to examine their own data and
set learning goals that map out
attainable accomplishments motivates
them and provides them with a sense of
control over their own outcomes
(Hamilton et al., 2009).
PLC Cycle for
Educators
Let’s Practice
Think About:
How will your instructional practices
change as a result of information
learned in today’s session?
RESOURCES - Whole Child
www.ascd.org/whole-child.aspx
(School Improvement Tool)
www.wholechildeducation.org/what-works/newsletter
(Free newsletter)
RESOURCES - Whole Child
www.educatethewholechild.org
www.wholechild.com
www.pbs.org/wholechild/
RESOURCES - Positive Mindset
Burkins, J.M., & Yaris, K. (2014). Reading wellness: Lessons in
independence and proficiency. Portland: Stenhouse.
Dweck, C. (2006). Mindset: The new psychology of success. New
York: Ballantine.
Johnston, P. (2004). Choice words: How our language affects
children’s learning. Portland: Stenhouse.
Johnston, P. (2012). Opening minds: Using language to change
lives. Portland: Stenhouse.
RESOURCES - Positive Mindset
Shawn Anchor TEDxBloomington - “The Happiness Advantage:
Linking Positive Brains to Performance”. https://www.youtube.
com/wath?v=GWy (kbVq1M&feature=youtu.be)
www.projecthappiness.org
www.ted.com/talk (There is also an option to follow on Twitter)