Transcript Slide 1

Developing
Self Directing Learners
with
Graham Watts, Associate Director,
Institute for the Habits of Mind
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What is it about your students that makes
you think they need to learn how to think?
What do you see them doing?
What do you hear them saying?
How are they feeling?
Fold a blank sheet of paper
into three columns
Column 1:
What is it about your students that makes you
think they need to learn how to learn?
Fold a blank sheet of paper
into three columns
Column 1:
What is it about your students that makes you
think they need to learn how to learn?
Column 2:
‘HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THEM TO BE?’
16 Habits of Mind (Costa & Kallick 2000)
1. Persisting
5. Responding with
wonderment & awe
2. Thinking &
communicating with
clarity & precision
6. Managing impulsivity
3. Gathering data
through all senses
7. Listening with
understanding and
empathy
4. Creating, imagining,
innovating
8. Thinking flexibly
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16 Habits of Mind (continued)
9. Thinking about
thinking (metacognition)
13.Questioning and
posing problems
10.Taking responsible
risks
14.Thinking
interdependently
11.Striving for accuracy
12.Finding humour
15.Applying past
knowledge to new
situations
16. Remaining open to
continuous learning
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Which Habit of Mind?
An icon, image,
picture
A poem, jingle,
quote or rap
List famous
people who
exemplify this
Habit.
A definition in
your own words
Fold a blank sheet of paper
into three columns
Column 1:
What is it about your students that makes you
think they need to learn how to learn?
Column 2:
‘HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THEM TO BE?’
Column 3:
Find similarities between your Column 2 ideas
and the Habits of Mind.
Sharing the Vision
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Curriculum Mind Shifts
FROM:
Not only
knowing the
right answers
TO:
Also knowing how to
behave when answers
are not immediately
apparent.
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