05/12/2011
Standards of Experience
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Diplomat, First Lady, Activist
In her presentation at the 2011 World Forum in Honolulu last week, Lilian Katz observed that we need to think deliberately about the types of experiences children are having in our programs. She proposed that in each setting we develop our own Standards of Experience for children. She offered these suggestions as "experiences that all children should have much of the time: - Being intellectually engaged and challenged
- Applying developing skills in purposeful ways
- Developing confidence in their own intellectual powers
- Extended conversations/interactions with adults and peers
- Taking initiative/responsibility; making choices
- Generating questions/predictions/hypotheses
- Sustained involvement in investigations of worthwhile topics
- Overcoming obstacles and set-backs
- Helping others to find out about and understand things better
- Making suggestions to others
- Feeling a sense of belonging to a community in the school
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