3. 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
4. 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
6. Belief #2: All students benefit from a focus on
High Intellectual Performance (HIP).
evaluate
judge
analyze
synthesize
ques*on
High
Intellectual
Performance
understand
cri*cal
thinking
cri*que
communicate
10. 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
14. 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
