{"id":29039,"date":"2021-01-01T10:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T02:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/bali\/?p=29039"},"modified":"2021-03-01T19:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T11:56:39","slug":"the-values-you-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/bali\/principal\/the-values-you-value\/","title":{"rendered":"THE VALUES YOU VALUE"},"content":{"rendered":"
My dad taught me to shake hands firmly and look someone in the eye. It was a way to demonstrate respect. And, rather than teaching me simple human behaviours, my dad gave me the opportunity to demonstrate respect – he gave me the opportunity to develop an intrinsic value of respect. It was an opportunity for me to be self-aware of respect. It taught me to <\/span>value<\/span><\/i> a value. Elvis Presley (direct tangent to my father\u2019s vinyl-record collection) once said <\/span>\u201cValues are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n We know that rote learning of information for a standardised assessment is not good education. We know that educating for life-skill development and values-based learning both need to be central. In an accelerating world, the purpose of education is shifting focus to life-skills and mindsets.<\/span><\/p>\n At Green School we have our community IRESPECT values – integrity, responsibility, equity, sustainability, peace, empathy, community, trust. I also like to think about them as \u2018I respect\u2019 statements – I respect you, I respect my community, I respect the natural environment, I respect myself. We have embedded these values in our learning programs and our community interactions. We, individually and collectively, demonstrate that we value our Values. Try it: take any random lesson and create opportunities for students to experience those \u2018I Respect\u2019 statements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Values-based learning is not the easy path to travel when designing learning programs. You really need to go way out on the ledge, right to the edge, and then jump! I can\u2019t teach values with a worksheet, I can\u2019t assess for values using a multiple choice exam. Nobody ever receives a perfect score for Equity, gets the certification, and graduates to other things. We are all, from an early age and for our whole life, learning values through a process of experience, self-awareness, analysis, reflection and experience. It\u2019s no different at school (why should anything be different at school?). Teachers who structure values-based learning into the classroom (and schools that embed it into how a learning community lives together) provide opportunities for everyone to value values.<\/span><\/p>\n Everything has a value and we choose, as individuals and communities, what is of more value. If a school chooses to value sustainability, then it creates learning experiences that demonstrate a commitment to a better future – build a recycling centre, get off the grid, conserve water, travel less, plant more, use less, advocate, be the change. Add these projects to the student experience. Allowing students to value a sustainable future is the learning journey – it\u2019s the pre-read, lesson, review, homework and test. Being present in the moment, paying attention to intention, being self-aware of a human experience that demonstrates value in something you believe in \u2026 that is values-based learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What is that you stand for? What Values do you value the most? What values-fingerprints do you want to leave, individually and as a community? Are you willing and able to live by those values? These questions follow us through our lives – even when answered, the questions remain. Schools of the future should be networks that support every member of the community into developing mind and skill-sets to answer these questions, and live the answers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My dad taught me to shake hands firmly and look someone in the eye. It was a way to demonstrate respect. And, rather than teaching me simple human behaviours, my dad gave me the opportunity to demonstrate respect – he gave me the opportunity to develop an intrinsic value of respect. It was an opportunity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":29034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n