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The Formative Five:Teaching for Success in Life
Philippines Education ConferencePrivate Education Assistance Committee
Pasay City, Manila
November 29, 2017, 8:15-9:15
Thomas R. Hoerr, PhD
www.thomasrhoerr.com
@TomHoerr
Are there differences between success in school and success in life?
Live to learn!
Yes!
Ken Jennings won 74 consecutive games on Jeopardy a television quiz show, earning $2,520,700.
He was then defeated by IBM’s Watson computer.
Yes!
A report from the World Economic Forum says: “65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that don’t yet exist.”
In 10 years, just about everything will be made closer to you and perhaps by you with a 3-D printer: parts for appliances, furniture, maybe even clothes. Now experimenting is being done to create body parts.
Yes!• Daniel Goleman: “… At best, IQ
contributes about 20% of the factors that determine life success, which leaves 80% to other forces.”
• Paul Tough: “What matters most in success is a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence.”
Scholastics should
be the floor,
not the ceiling.
Who you are is more important than what you
know.
Live to learn!
“Principal Connection,” Educational Leadership, January 2008
“What standardized tests cannot do – indeed, what almost no test can do – is capture a child’s essence. Tests don’t speak to the internal factors that play a major role in life success: curiosity, effort, resilience, and compassion.”
New City School’sPage 1
Success Skills•Empathy
•Self-control•Integrity
•Embracing Diversity
•Grit
How did I determine The Formative Five?
1. Empathy
“The art of stepping imaginatively into the shoes of others, understanding their feelings and perspectives, and using that information to guide your actions” (Roman Krznaric).
Walt Bettinger CEO, Charles Schwab
“We have to teach empathy
just as we do literacy” (Bill
Drayton)
“Empathy is the most
important back to school
supply for teachers” (Homar
Tavangar, Edutopia)
Empathy is also needed at home, in the work place, and in the teachers’ lounge.
“Who’s the Bully On Your Staff?” (“Principal Connection,” Educational Leadership, February 2013)
2. Self-control
“The ability to delay gratification and resist temptation is an acquirable cognitive skill” (Walter Mischel).
Self-control is an aspect of success in every domain.
• "Technology of interruption has outpaced the technology of concentration" (David Coleman, President of the College Board).
• Willpower is a learnable skill, something that can be taught the same way that kids learn to do math and say ‘thank you’” (Charles Duhigg in The Power of Habit)
3. Integrity
Integrity is firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values; incorruptibility. It stems from honesty, and is a higher, more public form of action.
• Brene’ Brown: “Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them”
• Jim Thomas: "The major difference between honesty and integrity is that one may be entirely honest without engaging in the thought and reflection integrity demands."
Brittany, Mimi, and thebirthday party
4. Embracingdiversity is
understanding that the
differences among us should be recognized,
appreciated, and embraced.
“Diversity is not just about the differences you like”
Eboo Patel, founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core
• “Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation” (Daniel Goleman).
• “We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration” (Josefa Iloilo).
5. GritGrit is tenacity, perseverance,
hanging in, and not ever giving up.
November 18, 2011 NYT by Paul Tough
“The Character TestWhy our kids’ success – and happiness – may depend less on perfect performance than on
learning how to deal with failure”
What if the secret to success is failure?
•"The biggest reason for success in entrepreneurship is not brilliance. It's not creative genius. It's the simple ability to not quit when things are really bad" (Leila Janah, NYT, “Corner Office,” 4/23/17).
•“Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo!” (John Sinclair).
Grit is:Passion + persistenceovercoming boredom
overcoming frustrationovercoming failure
making new mistakes.
Teach the attitude of grit
Kinds of
mistakes
What do they mean
for us?
They are
Live to learn!
Kinds of
mistakes
What do they mean
for us?
They are
OLD mistakes We repeat our errors and
do not learn from our
experiences.
Dumb
Live to learn!
Kinds of
mistakes
What do they mean
for us?
They are
OLD mistakes We repeat our errors and
do not learn from our
experiences.
Dumb
NO mistakes We continue to use the
same approach. We are
error-free but little
learning takes place.
Not smart
Live to learn!
Kinds of
mistakes
What do they mean
for us?
They are
OLD mistakes We repeat our errors and
do not learn from our
experiences.
Dumb
NO mistakes We continue to use the
same approach. We are
error-free but little
learning takes place.
Not smart
NEW mistakes We try new ideas and
strategies and learn from
our experiences.
Brave and
wise
Live to learn!
Make NEW
mistakes
Five Formative Five General Strategies
1. Highlight the Formative Five at the start of school year
2. Focus on one Formative Five skill every week or month
3. Take a cultural approach to the Formative Five
4. Use the halls and walls to educate and reinforce
5. Inform and engage students’ parents – do with, not to.
The take-away…
Who you areis more important
than what you know.