Learning & Leading With Habits of Mind

Fall Spring Fall Spring 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 214 Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind FIGURE 11.11 12 Ways ...

going to be done, no matter how much I wanted to throw the Makita because it wasn’t working, no matter how much responsibility I ...

creating trust and rapport, and they have developed the skills to lead the most reticent guest to reveal that person’s deepest e ...

log or journals. Consider these sentence starters to help students use the Habits of Mind as a way of documenting their learning ...

218 Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind FIGURE 11.12 Planning Matrix for Collecting Evidence Persisting2. Managing impulsi ...

Assessing Habits of Mind 219 FIGURE 11.12—( continued) Planning Matrix for Collecting Evidence Thinking and communicating with ...

learning and the development of skillful thinking abilities (Swartz, Costa, Beyer, Kallick, & Reagan, 2007). But the habits ...

A defining condition of being human is that we have to understand the meaning of our experience. —Jack Mezirow Most of us go thr ...

information, synthesizing and evaluating the data. In the end, reflecting also means applying what we’ve learned to contexts bey ...

Setting the Tone for Reflection Most classrooms can be categorized in one of two ways: active and a bit noisy, with students eng ...

Te a c h e r s u s e m a n y s t r a t e g i e s t o g u i d e s t u d e n t s t h r o u g h a p e r i o d o f reflection. We of ...

•As you reflect on this semester’s work, which of the Habits of Mind were you most aware of in your own learnings? •What metacog ...

To : T h e t h i r d - y e a r t e a c h e r s a n d m e n t o r s From: Bena Kallick Re: Yesterday’s session Reflecting on the ...

what was in my head for the afternoon, and listened at that time for their read of the group and its needs. Thinking flexibly.I ...

where I have many choices in my repertoire for each teaching situation. Sometimes I do not take the time to think through which ...

The students at University Heights School in New York City are required to reflect on the Habits of Mind they have adopted when ...

more fluent with their writing skills, they were able to represent their reflective thoughts more easily. Teaching Students How ...

Te a c h e r s u s e d t h e s e p h r a s e s t o d e s c r i b e 3 r d a n d 4 t h g r a d e s t u d e n t s ’ writing as the ...

•Works hard. •Is exciting. •Attends to the reader. •Is clear. •Does not drag writing out. •Uses descriptive words. Through this ...

Student Choices Students may prefer simply to describe what is going on in the writ- ing in their own way. When students set the ...