Strategies and Methods
See The Pedagogy of Confidence® Action Guide online for many of the strategies and models used by National Urban Alliance with educators and students. The strategies and models are part of the NUA approach that includes hands on modeling by NUA mentors with students in the classroom — in person and virtually. The online strategies include both how to do, and the ‘why’. Many include brief video examples explaining and modeling, including with students. Each of the strategies have a weblink to the Pedagogy of Confidence Action Guide online.
The Pedagogy of Confidence Leadership Action Guide is based on many years of research and collaborations with Reuven Feuerstein, with National Urban Alliance (NUA), with many other organizations and colleagues focusing on equity consciousness in the spirit of belief and belonging for all students and educators. The Pedagogy of Confidence is focused on recognizing and amplifying the strengths underserved students.
The goal of this action guide is to cultivate and sustain equity consciousness through The Pedagogy of Confidence. The Pedagogy of Confidence engenders robust communities of belonging in which students are gifted with High Operational Practices to inspire students’ engagement and elicit their innate potential for high intellectual performances, self-determination, and personal contribution.
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- Collaborative Communities
• Community Building Exercises
• Collaborative Learning Methods
• Peer to Peer Coaching - Cultural Frame of Reference
• Frame of Reference
• Schema
• Depth and Complexity - Visual Tools
• Thinking Maps®
• Inductive Thinking with Visual Tools - Questions and Inquiry
• Powerful Questions
• Socratic Seminar
• Anticipation Guide - PoC Critical Thinking Environments
• PoC Environments: Belief and Belonging
• PoC Environments: People
• PoC Environments: Objects
• PoC Environments: Materials
- Comprehension
• Essential Summaries
• Facts and Inferences
• Metacognition
• Note Taking
• Read-Talk-Map-Write - Vocabulary
• Dancing Definitions
• Key Word Notes
• Key Vocabulary Prediction
• Morphology and Etymology
• Sentence Transformation
• Taxonomies - Beginning Readers and Writers
• Highly Recurring Phonic Elements
• Phonics and Spelling - Writing Across the Content
• Sentence Frames
• Thinking Maps® to Writing
• Reflection Models (Haiku, Metaphors, Symbolic, More)
Also look at the Learning Modules that bring the above strategies and models into action while building upon understanding The Pedagogy of Confidence. See The Pedagogy of Confidence® Action Guide online.