Pathway #3 Creating Safe Enviornments

Cult of Pedagogy Podcast ep. 214

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Jennifer Gonzalez & Alex Shevrin Venet discuss how “unconditional positive regard” is a stance that communicates this message to students: “I care about you. You have value. You don’t have to do anything to prove it to me, and nothing’s going to change my mind.”
Unconditional Positive Regard was first used by Carl Rogers in the 1960s and applied to education in the early 2000s. This concept becomes the foundation for equity-centered trauma-informed teaching.


Part 3A: Introduction to Positive Regard

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/unconditional-positive-regard/

  1. Listen to the first segment of this episode (00:00 - 17:00) Introduction Alex Shevrin Venet - “unconditional positive regard.”
  2. Consider the following items as you listen:
    1. What does unconditional positive regard look like in practice??  
    2. When you get to know your students, especially when you don’t know anything about their interests, you can connect by:
      1. What do you like about _______
      2. How do you feel when you’re playing [or engaged] with _______
      3. Who do you get to connect with when you’re playing [or engaged with _______
  3. Reflect and Respond to the questions below:
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What do you think??  REFLECT: Please offer a few thoughts (no more than a paragraph or two) 
  1. What does conditional positive regard look like in practice??
  2. Consider a time when you went out of your way to connect with a student.  What did you have to do?  What were the outcomes?


Part 3B: Would You Respond Differently?

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/unconditional-positive-regard/
  1. Listen to the next segment (17:20 - 36:00) which dissects “Julia” and how the teacher learns how to earn her trust.
  2. Consider the following items as you listen:
    1. Perspective-keeping conversations with colleagues are helpful (team effort!)
      1. To maintain this perspective, the challenge is to require that the student is responsible for your emotions.  Students are required to be at school. 
      2. Teacher-Student relationships are unequal.
      3. Schools are not set up to foster 
    2. “Nothings going to change my mind…” 
    3. Everyone gets a trophy

Evidence of Learning
What do you think??  REFLECT- Please offer a few thoughts (no more than a paragraph or two) about one or more of the prompts below:
  • Consider a time when you relied on a colleague to help you through a challenging situation.  What kinds of support did your colleague provide that may have reminded you of our unconditional support toward a student.
  • What might be some strategies you are thinking of to use moving forward?
  • Describe how positive regard (nothings going to change my mind) may be received by a student.  Perhaps you can recall a student who later appreciated your approach…
  • Explain how “everyone gets a trophy” can be viewed differently


Part 3C: Beyond the Episode

So now what??  After being introduced to this topic, what are your next steps?? Take a look at any of the sites listed below, or research on your own.

Review any of the following links:
  1. https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-unconditional-positive-regard-2796005
  2. https://positivepsychology.com/unconditional-positive-regard/
  3. https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/unconditional-positive-regard
  4. Search “unconditional positive regard”

Evidence of Learning
What do you think?? REFLECT - please offer a few thoughts (no more than a paragraph or two)
  • What are your next steps?
  • Who might you want to share this information with?
  • What information was useful?




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