Becoming A Brilliant Star

1. Becoming A Brilliant Star William G. Huitt, Ph.D. Department of Psychology & Guidance Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA

2. Take a moment to reflect on what you see in this graphic.

3. Becoming A Brilliant Star There is much discussion in education and psychology about the need to "develop the whole child." But what exactly does that mean?

4. Becoming A Brilliant Star In order to answer that question one needs to have some view of the nature of a human being and the purpose of this life.

5. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star framework is designed to provide a guide for parents, educators, and others responsible for developing the qualities of children and youth to: • Develop educational and schooling curricula • Select pedagogical methods and materials • Identify methods of assessment and evaluation

6. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star approach focuses attention on three critical issues facing young people today: • Vision • Moral character • Competence

7. Becoming A Brilliant Star Dreams and goals of what is possible and desirable to do Vision

8. Becoming A Brilliant Star The habits or patterns of thinking, feeling, willing, and behaving that relate to right and wrong, to justice and equity, and to morality Moral Character

9. Becoming A Brilliant Star The knowledge, values, attitudes, and skills that link to successful performance Competence

10. Becoming A Brilliant Star All three issues are intertwined and difficult to isolate, although our experience suggests these can be observed separately in people.

11. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Core elements: • Soul • Relationships with self, others, and unknowns Spiritual • Purpose of life

12. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Core elements: • Being good Moral Character • Morality • Ethics

13. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Core elements: • Temperament Personal Style • Personality • Learning style

14. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Ten domains (5 are more internal): • Bodily functioning Physical • Relation to nature

15. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Ten domains (5 are more internal): • Perceiving Awareness • Initial understanding • Consciousness

16. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Ten domains (5 are more internal): • Thinking Cognition • Reasoning • Knowledge base

17. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Ten domains (5 are more internal): • Emotions Affect • Values

18. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Ten domains (5 are more internal): • Will Conation • Volition • Self-regulation

20. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Ten domains (5 are more external): • Mate selection Family • Spousal relationships • Parenting

21. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Ten domains (5 are more external): • Establishing friendships Friends • Maintaining friendships • Networking

22. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Ten domains (5 are more external): • Training Work and Career • Job • Entrepreneurship

23. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Ten domains (5 are more external): • Definition of true wealth Wealth and Finances • Material wealth • Stewardship

24. Becoming A Brilliant Star The Brilliant Star is comprised of three core elements and ten domains. Ten domains (5 are more external): • Sustainable development • Global and domestic citizenship Social • Equity of gender and ethnicity

27. The Brilliant Star Model

28. Becoming A Brilliant Star Vision relates to all of these domains in that one's ideas about possibilities and desires leads one to set goals and strive for excellence in each area.

29. Becoming A Brilliant Star A person's moral character is seen as foundational to development in the ten domains of competence. • character is associated with the quality of one's life, especially in terms of moral and ethical decisions and actions • data regarding character must come from actual behavior or, at a minimum, reports of actual behavior

30. Becoming A Brilliant Star WYMIWYG What You Measure Is What You Get • any construct or domain that is not consistently attended to through assessment and evaluation will decline rather than develop

31. Becoming A Brilliant Star Individual seen as living system interacting with the social and cultural context in which one lives Must maintain a reciprocal, homeodynamic relationship with demands of the environment

32. Becoming A Brilliant Star A variety of educational programs have been developed to address the important concerns of vision, character, and competence. Unfortunately, many of these programs have been a disappointment to their founders.

33. Becoming A Brilliant Star One reason may be that most programs have focused on one aspect or domain (e.g., academic achievement or self-esteem or character). Another reason may be that the programs were not founded on the best information provided through scientific investigation and research.

34. Becoming A Brilliant Star However, a third reason may be that the programs were founded ONLY on the principles of science. Fundamental truths regarding human existence, grounded in a philosophy and utilizing other sources of knowledge were not considered.

35. Becoming A Brilliant Star Make a great day! Paper and PowerPoint available at http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/materials/elecfile.html [Holistic/Integrated/Integrative Education]