Helping Your Child Become A More Self-

Directed LearnerIntroducing the Habits of

Mind

Wyckoff SchoolsJanuary 20,2014

HABITS OF MIND AROUND THE WORLD

College and Career ReadinessIntellectual

Openness

InquisitivenessAnalysisReasoning, Argumentation and ProofInterpretationPrecision and AccuracyProblem Solving

Conley, D. T. Redefining College Readiness. Eugene, OR: Education Policy Improvement Center.

According to Daniel Pink in his book, Drive

• Mastery• Autonomy• Purpose

21st Century Skills

- Collaboration

- Communication

- Creative Thinking

- Critical Thinking

Global Competencies

Communicate IdeasTake Action

Recognize PerspectivesInvestigate the World

Mansilla, V. B. and Jackson, (2011) Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World. New York: Council of Chief State School Officers’ Ed Steps Initiative & Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning

Habits of Mind and Research

Tony Wagner in his book,The Global Achievement Gapidentifies:

– curiosity– collaboration– associative or integrative thinking– a bias toward action and experimentation

He also added:

What I find most significant about this list is represent it represents a set of skills and habits of mind that can be nurtured, taught and mentored!”

All are dispositions and

the focus of this workshop is on the 16 Habits of Mind-a subset of

dispositions.

16 Habits of MindPersistingManaging ImpulsivityListening with

understanding & empathy

Thinking flexiblyThinking about

thinkingStriving for accuracyQuestioning & posing

problems Applying past

knowledge to new situations

Thinking & communicating with clarity and precision

Gathering data through

all sensesCreating, imagining,

innovating Responding with

wonderment and aweTaking responsible

risks Finding humor Thinking

interdependentlyRemaining open to

continuous learning

Questions to Stimulate the Habits

• What sense did you make of this?• What questions came to mind as you think

about this?• Which part do you know for sure? • Which part do you understand?• Which part are you not certain about?• What do you notice about this?• What patterns do you notice?• What do you wish was easier?• What did you understand the question to

be?• What do you wonder about?• Tell me more• Help me understandGetting to I Got It!, Betty K. Garner

Published by ASCD

Additional Thoughts About Questioning

• When asking an open ended question, use good wait time. Do not ask another question. Allow think time. Strategies for encouraging think time:

– Count to signal wait time

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Stick to it!

PERSISTING

Persevering on a task even though the resolution is not immediately apparent.

Failed in business, 1831 Defeated for legislature, 1832 Again failed in business, 1833 Elected to legislature, 1834 Defeated for Speaker, 1838 Defeated for elector, 1840

Defeated for Congress, 1843 Elected to Congress, 1846

Defeated for Congress, 1848 Defeated for Senate, 1855

Defeated for vice-president, 1858 Defeated for Senate, 1858

Elected President of the United States, 1860

Elected President of the United States, 1860

Abraham Lincoln

Think about your thinking!

METACOGNITION

Being aware of your own thoughts, feelings, and actions and their effects of on others

Metacognition: Think Aloud Problem Solving

THINK ALOUDPROBLEM SOLVING

When there is a challenging problem : Invite your child to describe their plans

and strategies for solving the problem. Share their thinking as they are

implementing their plan.

Reflect on/evaluate the effectiveness of their strategy.

POSE QUESTIONS THAT CAUSE YOUR CHILD TO CHECK FOR

ACCURACY:“How do you know you are

right?”

“What other ways can you prove that you are correct?”

Pause and Clarify--(don’t interrupt)

“Explain what you mean when you said ‘you just figured it out’.”

“When you said you started at the beginning, how did you know where to begin?”

Provide data, not answers“I think you heard it wrong; let

me repeat the question.”

“You need to check your addition.”

RESIST MAKING VALUE-JUDGMENTS:

“So, your answer is 48. Was there another possible way to solve this

problem?

STAY FOCUSED ON THE THINKING PROCESS:

“Tell us what strategies you used to solve the problem.”

ENCOURAGE PERSISTENCE:

“C’mon, you can do it!”

Understand others!

Devoting mental energies to understandingothers’ thoughts and feelings.

LISTENING WITH UNDERSTANDING AND EMPATHY

•Pause•Paraphrase •Probe

• Inquire• Clarify

LISTENING SEQUENCE:

Pausing:Using wait-time before responding

to or asking a question allows time for more complex thinking, enhances dialogue and improves decision making.

Paraphrasing:Lets others know that you are listening, that you understand

or are trying to understand them and that you care.

Probing:Increases the clarity and precision of the

group's thinking by refining understandings, terminology

and interpretations.

Speaker: Finish this sentence:

“As I reflect on my child’s learning this year, I am thinking …”

Listener: Use the Pause, Paraphrase Probe sequence

Speaker: Finish this sentence:

“As I reflect on my plans for how I might change the way I am questioning, I am considering…”

Listener: Use the Pause, Paraphrase Probe sequence

WHAT VALUES ARE YOU EXPRESSING WHEN YOU LISTEN TO OTHERS SO INTENTLY?

“One’s intelligence is the sum of one’shabits of mind.”

Lauren B. Resnick Making America Smarter: The Real Goal of School Reform 2001

MODELING:

“What you are speaks soloudly, they can’t hear what you say.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For more information go to:

• www.habitsofmindinternational.com

• Or contact kallick.bena@gmail.com