Just watched the TED video below. The description of his classroom environment, playing the World Peace game, fits so well with the Mining Gems model that I am using this occasion to describe it in brief. I encourage all educators and parents to view the video below for Mr. Hunter's TED talk and reflect on the Mining Gems model in terms of their own experiences.
The Mining Gems model was created to describe the essential elements for a learning environment - whether it be in school, at home, or in the workplace - to foster the transformation of human relationships to be positive, creative, and collaborative by mining the gems within. It consists of three interconnected elements and within each element three parts. The three elements are: collaborative, meaningful, and virtues.
(the following is described in terms of an educational setting, it can be also described in terms of work and home life)
The environment must be collaborative in that it is:
INCLUSIVE - all students are included in the collaboration and the teacher(s) are, at times, co-collaborators either modeling the behavior and activities they want the students to do or facilitating the process in other ways
IMMERSIVE - the content must be rich with multiple layers such that all students can find the content to be substantial for learning (not too much that it overwhelms, but just the right amount to challenge them appropriately)
STRENGTHS - the focus for collaboration is on one's strengths and it is the diversity of strengths that is harnessed for progressing the collaboration
The environment must be meaningful in that it:
ENGAGES - students are engaged in the learning, it catches their attention, piques their interest, challenges their understanding and makes them ask questions
INSPIRES - students to want to learn more simply because the content is personally relevant and they are internally motivated to seek answers
TRANSFORMS - students view of the reality and changes their understanding of the world for the better
The environment must include the following virtues:
RESPECT - students and teacher(s) respect that all ideas can be shared in reference to the learning content, each student has gems within to be mined, no one belittles another or discourages discourse through word or deed
TRUST - students and teacher(s) trust each other's ability to develop within this environment, build and maintain trust that mistakes are opportunities for learning
JOY - students and teacher(s) have joyfulness, not fun (which is a short-term feeling), to be able to carry through with the easy and most challenging tasks
The Mining Gems model was created to describe the essential elements for a learning environment - whether it be in school, at home, or in the workplace - to foster the transformation of human relationships to be positive, creative, and collaborative by mining the gems within. It consists of three interconnected elements and within each element three parts. The three elements are: collaborative, meaningful, and virtues.
(the following is described in terms of an educational setting, it can be also described in terms of work and home life)
The environment must be collaborative in that it is:
INCLUSIVE - all students are included in the collaboration and the teacher(s) are, at times, co-collaborators either modeling the behavior and activities they want the students to do or facilitating the process in other ways
IMMERSIVE - the content must be rich with multiple layers such that all students can find the content to be substantial for learning (not too much that it overwhelms, but just the right amount to challenge them appropriately)
STRENGTHS - the focus for collaboration is on one's strengths and it is the diversity of strengths that is harnessed for progressing the collaboration
The environment must be meaningful in that it:
ENGAGES - students are engaged in the learning, it catches their attention, piques their interest, challenges their understanding and makes them ask questions
INSPIRES - students to want to learn more simply because the content is personally relevant and they are internally motivated to seek answers
TRANSFORMS - students view of the reality and changes their understanding of the world for the better
The environment must include the following virtues:
RESPECT - students and teacher(s) respect that all ideas can be shared in reference to the learning content, each student has gems within to be mined, no one belittles another or discourages discourse through word or deed
TRUST - students and teacher(s) trust each other's ability to develop within this environment, build and maintain trust that mistakes are opportunities for learning
JOY - students and teacher(s) have joyfulness, not fun (which is a short-term feeling), to be able to carry through with the easy and most challenging tasks
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