1. Dancing on the Compass Rose:
Creating and Maintaining Positive Partnerships
in a Montessori Environment
Compass Montessori School
Staff Development Days
August 13, 2015

2. Changing Education Paradigms - Sir Ken Robinson (2010)

3. On Changing Education Paradigms...
What is one powerful take-away?
Why does it resonate with you?
How will it affect your practice?

4. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel Pink (2010)

5. 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?

6. In establishing what works for children,
we must look at the the WHY...

7. Hierarchy of Needs - Abraham Maslow (1943)

8. Hierarchy of Needs - Abraham Maslow (1943)

9. Hierarchy of Needs - Abraham Maslow (1943)

10. Fundamental Needs of People
Food
Shelter
Clothing
Defense
Transportation
Communication
Belonging
The Healing Arts
Self-Expression
Spirituality

11. Human Tendencies
Orientation
Order
Exploration
Communication
Activity
Manipulation
Work
Repetition
Exactness
Abstraction
Self-Perfection

12. Circles of Concern - Gordon Tredgold (2013)

13. Fundamental Needs of People
Food
Shelter
Clothing
Defense
Transportation
Communication
Belonging
The Healing Arts
Self-Expression
Spirituality
Human Tendencies
Orientation
Order
Exploration
Communication
Activity
Manipulation
Work
Repetition
Exactness
Abstraction
Self-Perfection

14. Fundamental Needs of People
Food
Shelter
Clothing
Defense
Transportation
Communication
Belonging
The Healing Arts
Self-Expression
Spirituality
Provide For...
Human Tendencies
Orientation
Order
Exploration
Communication
Activity
Manipulation
Work
Repetition
Exactness
Abstraction
Self-Perfection

15. Fundamental Needs of People
Food
Shelter
Clothing
Defense
Transportation
Communication
Belonging
The Healing Arts
Self-Expression
Spirituality
Provide For...
Human Tendencies
Orientation
Order
Exploration
Communication
Activity
Manipulation
Work
Repetition
Exactness
Abstraction
Self-Perfection
Allow For...

16. Hierarchy of Needs - Abraham Maslow (1943)

17. Hierarchy of Needs - Abraham Maslow (1943)

18. MOTIVATION
Autonomy - Mastery - Purpose

19. Do your students know WHY they are doing
what they are doing?
Do you?

20. Motivation &
Engagement
Errant
Behaviors

21. Motivation Behavior
WHY

22. Autonomy - Mastery - Purpose
In what ways will you provide authentic opportunities for
these pillars of motivation to be realised?
For your students?
For yourself?

24. By being…
observant
intentional
purposeful
specific
direct
flexible
spontaneous
dynamic
mindful
humble

25. In our stewardship of every child’s LIGHT, we shine-out our own.

26. We are each like individual STARS…

27. ...seen together as CONSTELLATIONS…

28. ...providing the STAR MAPS by which children can navigate the Universe.

29. Resources to Explore
The 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