Profectum Foundation Education Best Practice Guidelines
The ”21st Century Thinking Curriculum” for school programs embraces the following principles:
- Instruction meets each student at their developmental level and challenges all capacities
- Focus is on Process vs. Product Learning
- Provides meaningful, experience-based and dynamic instruction supports “discovery” and comprehension
- Believes development can’t be taught
- Takes advantage of structured and spontaneous opportunities to
- Foster relationships
- Support students to be intentional
- Promote problem solving
- Encourage the elaboration of ideas
- Help students reach higher levels of problem solving, symbolic thinking and abstraction within a wider range of emotions
- Support the ability to give reasons to support ideas and connect ideas logically
- Encourages reflection and “thinking about thinking”
- The continuous flow of interactions allows student to become intentional and capable of generalizing and abstracting
- Provide long periods of spontaneous floor time to obtain engagement, initiation, and multiple circles of communication in high affect states
- Affect is central to all learning
- Affective reciprocity allows students to find meaning and symbolize experience
- Parent involvement is critical to the success of each student