1.5 Drivers for Effective Actions: Standards, Learning and Principles

Recent approaches show a comprehensive vision of school and life success that encompasses multiple domains of students’ development, including social and emotional development (Pomerance, Greenberg & Walsh, 2016), and how goals and choices can change when we take into consideration different dimensions.

The importance of a future oriented and integrated approach is proposed in the Standard models presented, underlining the relevance of looking at present and future objectives and undertaking a positive approach,  emphasizing the role of decision making in the domains and in all proposed activities.

Schools can be seen an ideal place to provide everyone learning activities designed to help them achieve their best leadership chances, happy, healthy, and independent lives, reach their unique career potential. (Patton & McMahon, 2015).

Standards are one element of a coordinated approach to effective education that includes: clear and appropriate educational goals and benchmarks,  evidence-based curricula, and instruction to achieve those goals and professional development for teachers to support high-quality instruction (Dusenbury, Zadrazil, Mart, Weissberg, 2011).  

What is interesting and relevant to bring in PSsmile,  is that each competence is described in terms of:  knowledge to acquire, skills  to apply in numerous situations,  personalization  and reflection as well as act and practice new knowledge and skills.