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Dancing on the Compass Rose:Creating and Maintaining Positive Partnerships
in a Montessori Environment
Compass Montessori SchoolStaff Development Days
August 13, 2015
On Changing Education Paradigms...
What is one powerful take-away?
Why does it resonate with you?
How will it affect your practice?
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel Pink (2010)
On Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us...
What is one powerful take-away?
Why does it resonate with you?
How will it affect your practice?
In establishing what works for children, we must look at the the WHY...
Hierarchy of Needs - Abraham Maslow (1943)
Hierarchy of Needs - Abraham Maslow (1943)
Hierarchy of Needs - Abraham Maslow (1943)
Fundamental Needs of People
Food ShelterClothingDefense
TransportationCommunication
BelongingThe Healing ArtsSelf-Expression
Spirituality
Human Tendencies
OrientationOrder
ExplorationCommunication
ActivityManipulation
Work RepetitionExactness
AbstractionSelf-Perfection
Circles of Concern - Gordon Tredgold (2013)
Fundamental Needs of People
Food ShelterClothingDefense
TransportationCommunication
BelongingThe Healing ArtsSelf-Expression
Spirituality
Human Tendencies
OrientationOrder
ExplorationCommunication
ActivityManipulation
Work RepetitionExactness
AbstractionSelf-Perfection
Fundamental Needs of People
Food ShelterClothingDefense
TransportationCommunication
BelongingThe Healing ArtsSelf-Expression
Spirituality
Provide For...
Human Tendencies
OrientationOrder
ExplorationCommunication
ActivityManipulation
Work RepetitionExactness
AbstractionSelf-Perfection
Fundamental Needs of People
Food ShelterClothingDefense
TransportationCommunication
BelongingThe Healing ArtsSelf-Expression
Spirituality
Provide For...
Human Tendencies
OrientationOrder
ExplorationCommunication
ActivityManipulation
Work RepetitionExactness
AbstractionSelf-Perfection
Allow For...
Hierarchy of Needs - Abraham Maslow (1943)
Hierarchy of Needs - Abraham Maslow (1943)
MOTIVATION
Autonomy - Mastery - Purpose
Do your students know WHY they are doing what they are doing?
Do you?
Motivation & Engagement
Errant Behaviors
Motivation Behavior
WHY
Autonomy - Mastery - Purpose
In what ways will you provide authentic opportunities for these pillars of motivation to be realised?
For your students?
For yourself?
By being…observantintentionalpurposeful
specificdirect
flexiblespontaneous
dynamic
mindfulhumble
In our stewardship of every child’s LIGHT, we shine-out our own.
We are each like individual STARS…
...seen together as CONSTELLATIONS…
...providing the STAR MAPS by which children can navigate the Universe.
Resources to ExploreThe Human Tendencies & Montessori Education
- Mario Montessori
Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful: Preventing Exclusion in the Early Elementary Classroom - Donna Bryant Goertz
Love of Learning: Supporting Intrinsic Motivation in Montessori Students - Michael & D’Neil Duffy