equipping our children with confidence

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