Learning & Leading With Habits of Mind

be used to develop ideas and also to join closely together as a group of thinkers. Both groups—an adult team of educators and a ...

A goal of education is to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organizat ...

and the description of criteria for improving performance. Not surpris- ingly, students learn more when they are involved in con ...

How much do students really love to learn, to persist, to passion- ately attack a problem or a task?... to watch some of their p ...

include students, colleagues, parents, and perhaps even other community members. The habits should be described in terms of the ...

•Considers many alternatives when solving a problem. •Continuously clarifies the task while monitoring performance. We h a v e p ...

Listening with Understanding and Empathy If there is any secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s poi ...

other people’s points of view or rationales. They state several ways of solv- ing the same problem, and they evaluate the merits ...

Students who are skillful in their ability to think about their own thinking •Are aware of the kind of thinking they are engaged ...

Children pose questions naturally. They ask questions out of curios- ity, intrigue, or interest. Yet with appropriate instructio ...

Students who have developed this Habit of Mind can abstract meaning from one experience and apply it to a new one. We know stude ...

Gathering Data Through All Senses It is not easy to describe the sea without the mouth. —Kokyu Students who have developed this ...

Responding with Wonderment and Awe The real mark of the creative person is that the unforeseen prob- lem is a joy and not a curs ...

Students who are practicing responsible risk taking show a willing- ness to try out new strategies, techniques, and ideas. They ...

of knowledge. Students show evidence of increased interdependence in group work and discussions when they focus on analysis, syn ...

always implies a further journey to the next place. They understand that expertise is not knowing everything but knowing the nex ...

190 Assessing Habits of Mind Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick 11 What gets measured gets done. Measurement is the heart of any i ...

objective judgments can be made. Assessment without feedback merely serves as judgment. Feedback is the part of assessment that ...

Students Must Set and Meet Goals Students need to participate in the goal-setting process. It has always seemed puzzling that st ...

Assessing Habits of Mind 193 who are self-assessing. Self-knowledge is the first step in this kind of self- assessment. Much of ...