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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

Changing Education Paradigms - Sir Ken Robinson (2010)

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

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