Resumen de The Life Vest Inside™ Kindness Curriculum: Understanding, Refining, Implementing and Growing in Kindness from Kindergarten through Fifth Grade
In response to growing demands to provide more real-life experiences for children during the school day that are based on improving critical thinking and increasing awareness and use of lifeskills, Life Vest Inside™ (hereafter referred to as LVI) has designed a Kindness Curriculum. The LVI Kindness Curriculum is intentionally crafted to align with the newly adopted United States Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Bloom’s Taxonomy to elicit higher order thinking skills and increase young childrens’ understanding of and engagement with kindness. Vetted by various educational stakeholders, the LVI curriculum currently includes Units of Study from Kindergarten through Fifth grade (www.corestandards.org, 2012). The LVI curriculum is unique in that it functions as a seamless curriculum to complement and enhance instruction for teachers, unlike “push-in” curricula requiring teachers to “make time” within a school day to accommodate additional learning objectives not reflected in the CCSS. Each Unit, designed by experts in the field of education, includes six lessons. The Units build upon the prior, with the intention that by the end of Fifth grade, students will have received almost forty lessons directly aligned with the CCSS that additionally enhance their understanding of, and ability to, think critically about ways to generate more kindness on an individual and global level.
