Habits of Mind

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Describing 16 Habits of Mind

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Introductory session for students on Costa & Kallick's 16 Habits of Mind. Rationale for applying/ learning to practice habits.

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Describing 16 Habits of Mind

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Learning Research

Arthur Costa and Bena Kallick describe Habits of Mind as research informed characteristics of successful learners performed in response to those questions and problems when answers are NOT immediately known. In schools, we are interested in observing how students produce knowledge rather than how they merely reproduce knowledge.

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What do humans do when they behave intelligently?

The critical attribute of intelligent human beings is not only having information, but also knowing how to act on it.

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Why use Habits of Mind?

TransdisciplinaryAs good for adults as they are for studentsBuilds a mindful learning community by

designEnsures focus on long range, essential

strategies for learning

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16 Habits

Following are descriptions and elaboration of what human beings do when they behave intelligently. They

are the characteristics of what intelligent people do when they are confronted with problems, the resolution

to which are not immediately apparent.

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Looking for Success?

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Persisting

Effective people stick to a task until it is completed. They don't give up easily. They are able to analyse a problem, to develop a system, structure, or strategy to attack a problem.

They employ a range and have repertoire of alternative strategies for problem solving. They collect evidence to indicate their problem-solving strategy is working

If one strategy doesn't work, they know how to back up and try another.

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Managing Impulsivity

Think before you act.

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Creating, Imagining and Innovating

Try a different way! Generate new and novel ideas, fluency, originality

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Questioningand PosingProblems

How do you know?  Having a questioning attitude; knowing what data are needed and developing

questioning strategies to produce those data.  Finding problems to solve

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What are your strengths?

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IN SUMMARY

Drawn from research on human effectiveness, descriptions of remarkable performers, and analyses of the characteristics of effective people, this has been an introduction to sixteen Habits of Mind.

This list is not meant to be complete but rather to serve as a starting point for further elaboration and description.

These Habits of Mind may serve as mental disciplines. When confronted with problematic situations, students,

parents and teachers might habitually employ one or more of these Habits of Mind by asking themselves, “What is the most intelligent thing I can do right now?”

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Famous People use Habits of MIND

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“The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious."

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