Transcript Habits of Mind Presentation to students

HABITS OF MIND
YEAR 7
• Multiple Intelligences
– Each person is able to learn
– All humans are born with eight different
intelligences
– Each intelligence learns differently
– QUICK QUIZ – What are the eight
‘smarts’?
YEAR 8
• Building upon what you did in year 7
• Taking it a step further
– What are your strengths?
– What areas would you like to work on?
– What Habits would you like to develop?
What are the
HABITS OF MIND?
• Art Costa
• Research into the behaviour of successful
people – the best in their field, e.g.
athletes
• What do they have in common with the way
they go about using their minds?
• Learning to behave more intelligently
• Came up with 16 habits
• You are already using many of the
habits, at school and outside of
school
• Giving you a language to use
THE 16
HABITS OF
MIND
PERSISTING
Stick to it!
• Trying different strategies
• Finding different ways to reach your
goals
• Remaining focused
MANAGING
IMPULSIVITY
Take your time!
• Thinking before acting (how many of
us DON’T do that?)
• Choose your response
• ‘Think time’ and ‘wait time’ – e.g.
count to three before call out
THINKING FLEXIBLY
Look at it another way
• Looking at something one way and
imagining it a different way
• Being open to alternatives, differences,
change
• Coming at problems from a different angle
• Redefining what the problem is
• ‘As a result of hearing everyone’s opinions,
I have changed my mind…’
LISTENING WITH EMPATHY &
UNDERSTANDING
Understand others
• Understanding where another person is
coming from
• Another’s point of view and emotions
• LISTENING versus HEARING
• Are we always able to summarise the
opinions of others?
STRIVING FOR
ACCURACY
Check it again
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Striving for your personal best
Set high standards
Getting it right – doing it better
Checking and finding ways to improve
constantly
• Is ‘satisfactory’ good enough?
Thinking about your
thinking
METACOGNITION
Know your knowing
• Being aware of your own thoughts,
strategies, feelings & actions
• Reflecting – what works and what
doesn’t work?
• Metacognitive awareness – how did you
solve your problem?
• 176 + 232 = ?
QUESTIONING & POSING
PROBLEMS
How do you know?
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Having a questioning attitude
Do you remember when you were five?
Knowing what data you need
Developing questioning strategies to
develop that data
APPLYING PAST KNOWLEDGE
TO NEW SITUATIONS
Use what you learn!
• Access prior knowledge
• Take knowledge beyond the situation in
which it was learned
• ‘Numb3rs’
THINKING & COMMUNICATING
WITH CLARITY AND
PRECISION
Be clear!
• Fuzzy language – ‘EVERYBODY thinks that
this is so…’ Really? Is there not ONE person
who doesn’t think this way?
• Being accurate when talking and writing
• Avoiding over generalising, distorting,
deleting, exaggerating
CREATING, IMAGINING,
INNOVATING
Try a different way
• Coming up with new ideas
• Being original
TAKING RESPONSIBLE
RISKS
Venture out!
• Reach for the stars
• Trying something new
• Going outside your comfort zone –
growing as a person
• Measuring up the risks
• How many of us find talking in front
of a group scary?
GATHERING DATA
THROUGH ALL SENSES
Use your natural pathways
• Tasting, smelling, touching, moving,
listening, seeing
• Gathering different sorts of data
• Learning best by taking information in
using all our senses
THINKING
INTERDEPENDENTLY
Work together!
• Working with others
• Learning from others
• Team work
FINDING HUMOUR
Laugh a little!
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Seeing the funny side of things
Laughing at ourselves
Not about putting others down
This habit is demonstrated by the
most successful people
• Most advanced form of intelligence –
it is a difficult thing to do
RESPONDING WITH
WONDERMENT & AWE
Have fun figuring it out
• Passionate, amazed, intrigued
• Love doing what you are doing
• The most successful love what they
do –examples?
• Opposite of:
– ‘That’s boring…’
– ‘Who cares…’
REMAINING OPEN TO
CONTINUOUS LEARNING
I have so much more to
learn
• The teacher myth: ‘we know it all’
• Door staying open
• The most successful people always
want to learn more, to improve, to get
better
• Opposite of being arrogant
– ‘I know it all’
ONE LAST POINT
Nothing’s stopping you from
becoming the most successful
person you can be.
HABITS OF MIND
PORTFOLIOS
WHAT IS A PORTFOLIO?
• Collection of work
• Shows effort, growth and
achievement
• Reflecting about learning
• Self evaluating
• Setting goals
WHAT CAN YOU INCLUDE?
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Tests
Oral presentations
Worksheets
Role plays
Journal writing
Musical pieces
Artwork
What else?
PORTFOLIO PROCESS
1. Collect – in your log
2. Select – pieces to include
3. Reflect – using the portfolio entry
sheet
4. Connect – at parent-teacher
interviews
TERM 1
• Becoming familiar with the Habits of
Mind
• Use your Year 7 Multiple
Intelligences portfolio to work out
your strengths and problem areas
and to set learning goals for the year
• Based on your goals, you will then
select four Habits of Mind – one
from each category
• Cover page of portfolio
THE 16 HABITS OF
MIND
Thinking
•Thinking about your thinking
(metacognition)
•Thinking and communicating with
clarity & precision
•Thinking interdependently
•Thinking flexibly
Responding & interacting
•Listening with understanding and
empathy
•Taking responsible risks
•Responding with wonderment and
awe
•Finding humour
•Remaining open to continuous
learning
Data gathering
•Applying past knowledge to new
situations
•Questioning and problem posing
•Gather data through all senses
Completing a task
•Persisting
•Managing impulsivity
•Striving for accuracy
•Creating, imagining & innovating
• You will show your development in
each habit by selecting a minimum of
two pieces of work or activities
• A total of 8 entries – 2 x 4 habits
• Each piece you include must come
from a different subject
Term 1
• Goal setting
• Parent-Teacher Interviews
– Presentation of goals
Term 2
• Parent-Teacher Interviews
– Goal update
• Complete entries for two of the
habits you have chosen
• Portfolio entry sheet for each piece
you include
Term 3
• Complete entries for other two
habits you have chosen
• Present portfolios at parent-teacher
interviews in August
Term 4
• Finishing touches
• Revisit goal setting – have you
achieved your goals and how?
• Present completed portfolios to
classmates