Thrival Necessities: Survival Necessities:
Fulfilled with Abundant Necessities
Psychological (Thrival) Needs can be reliably supplied with the Values, Interests, Personality traits and Skills (VIPS) core educational course; where you create your Admirable Legacy Plans (ALPs) to use as a Life Compass. This deep self-understanding fulfills Maslow's top three needs to thrive.
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Physical (Survival) Needs can be reliably supplied with the BLiSS
Homestead. It provides security of: housing, energy, food, water, air, clothing, health & sanitation.
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Values, Interests, Personality traits and Skills (VIPS) core educational course
Proud supporter of:
"The most prevalent overlapping factors that affect career choice and satisfaction
are the connections to your set of values, interests, personality traits, and skills
(VIPS). These change over time with each new experience and season of life.
Grounding your decisions in one, or more, of your VIPS, allows you to take control
of your career options and progression." - William & Mary
Since these factors are so important to a person's success and happiness in life,
expanding this set of guidance counseling tools into a full core course makes sense.
The VIPS course will teach students metacognitive strategies to help them to find
links between what they are great at doing, what they love doing and what their best
career and hobby options are. This is achieved through active learning methods
facilitated by a flipped classroom model. Modeling a variety of learning strategies, will help students to overcome any weaknesses, innate or perceived. The program tackles the widespread problem of unrealized potential and empowers students on their journey of self-discovery and personal growth.
An overarching goal of commendable ethics and morality is achieved through Admirable Legacy Plans (ALPs)
What gives life meaning?
Coherence: In what ways can your VIPS be combined to help make your life make sense? How can they be combined to enrich the roles you inhabit (offspring, sibling, student, mentor, friend, partner, parent, employee, boss, visionary, etc.)? How can they be combined to strengthen these roles to support you through difficult life challenges?
Significance: How can these combinations help you to matter, in a positive way, to yourself, your loved ones, to the world and to history?
Purpose: Learn how to set achievable goals towards developing these combinations to create the legacies that you want to be remembered for, in each role, with ALPs.
Know Thyself (Explore Your Known VIPS & Discover Your Hidden VIPS)
The program incorporates various indicators, including Emotional Intelligence, Practical Intelligence, and Multiple Intelligences, providing a robust foundation for students' self-discovery. Discover your top 3 aptitudes in each of these disciplines:
Science: Understand the causes of natural processes to imagine a better future.
Trades: Repair/maintain/upgrade your future car, garden and/or home.
Engineering: Use science to develop the practical tools (technology) to create that better future.
Arts: Create beauty, amaze, inspire, humble, shift paradigms.
Mathematics: The language of science.
Sports (& Games): Develop anger management, good sportsmanship, and healthy alternatives to conflict and wars.
Safety Modules:
VIPS prioritizes student safety with integrated modules covering self-defense, swimming, anti-bullying, practical and theoretical troubleshooting, and stress management. By equipping students with essential life skills, we ensure a secure and supportive learning environment conducive to growth and exploration.
Grow Thyself (Apply & Develop)
Understanding that VIPS will naturally grow and change with time, ALPs use Instructional Scaffolding to evolve accordingly. Students select one aptitude to develop from each of the STEAMS disciplines, fostering mastery and depth of knowledge. A different set of aptitudes will be selected and focused on for secondary school and then another set for post secondary education. This will allow each student to master three aptitudes in each STEAMS discipline, or 18 aptitudes, by the end of their scholastic journey.
Imagine deep and accurate self-knowledge of who you are, what your passions are and what your admirable legacy plans are, throughout your scholastic career. If everyone had such knowledge, imagine: How much easier would it be to find, not only a compatible life partner, but your soulmate? How much easier would it be to find a career that you are passionate about, where work is getting paid to play?
Technological Integration:
VIPS embraces cutting-edge technologies such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and virtual/mixed reality systems, revolutionizing talent exploration and development. By harnessing technology, we provide students with immersive and interactive learning experiences, preparing them for the challenges of the future.
Benefits
Fosters a Growth Mindset with Instructional Scaffolding
“A growth mindset refers to the belief that intelligence and academic ability is not fixed, but rather that it can grow and change over time.”
- https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/motivation-and-metacognition
Create a Quick Profile of Intrinsic Motivators of Each Student for Teachers of other Subjects
“Attempts at fostering intrinsic motivation should therefore focus on student learning (understanding and growth) rather than focusing on performance alone. That said, there are potential drawbacks associated with this type of motivation. Fostering intrinsic motivation requires teachers to have a deeper understanding of the personal reasons motivating students, and learning this information may be a lengthy process (during which you build and nurture student-teacher relationships). The effects of this process may also take time to manifest in the form of improved student performance (Bain, 2004).”
- https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/motivation-and-metacognition
Useful Tools
Mastery Learning
"Mastery Learning is, simply put, an approach to teaching that requires students to attain a pre-defined level of proficiency in a topic before they can move on to the next topic in a course... This approach is particularly effective and vital in any course where the content builds on prior learning. The idea has been around for decades, but it has been challenging to implement until recently. Today’s instructional technology tools can be used to make the Mastery Learning approach far more achievable than it was in the ‘pre-tech’ classrooms of the past."
- http://www.flippedclassroomworkshop.com/flipping-awesome-enabling-mastery-learning-in-the-flipped-classroom/
Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects
"About this course: This course gives you easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. We’ll learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates (“chunks”) information. We’ll also cover illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects."
- https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
Mathematics made easy and fun for everyone!
"Throughout Scott [Flansburg]’s travels Scott proves his capacity to perform high-speed addition, subtraction, multiplication, square roots and even cube roots. More important than showing others the skills that he has acquired, he wants to show others that they already have the ability to perform seemingly difficult math problems without a calculator. Using Scott’s nontraditional tactics, he has learned that any student or professional who needs to use math in their daily life is only hindered by the calculator instead merely using their brain."
- http://thehumancalculator.com/
Join us in revolutionizing education with VIPS. Together, we can empower students to unlock their full potential and create meaningful legacies for themselves and society.