Learning & Leading With Habits of Mind

thoughtful about consequences, and have a well-trained sense of what is appropriate. They know that all risks are not worth taki ...

We h o p e t h a t s t u d e n t s w i l l l e a r n h ow t o t a k e i n t e l l e c t u a l a s w e l l a s physical risks. St ...

Some students find humor in all the wrong places—human differ- ences, ineptitude, injurious behavior, vulgarity, violence, and p ...

don’t like me,” or “I want to be alone.” Some students seem unable to contribute to group work and are job hogs; conversely, oth ...

A great mystery about humans is that many times we confront learn- ing opportunities with fear rather than mystery and wonder. W ...

of the characteristics of efficacious people. These Habits of Mind can serve as mental disciplines. Students, parents, and teach ...

schools, athletic fields, organizations, the military, governments, churches, or corporations. They are what make marriages succ ...

Ennis, R. (1991). Goals for a critical thinking curriculum. In A. Costa (Ed.), Devel- oping minds: A resource book for teaching ...

42 Habits of Mind in the Curriculum Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick 3 Good schools focus on habits, on what sorts of intellectu ...

accommodates differences. Also through the Habits of Mind, the group builds an atmosphere of trust in human relationships, trust ...

Sharing Common Beliefs Many programs and curriculum designs can be enriched by integrating the Habits of Mind into them. For exa ...

Habits of Mind in the Curriculum 45 The learning, however, would be teacher-directed and would not require many of the other hab ...

46 Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind work of Heidi Hayes Jacobs suggests that it is powerful to begin an exam- ination of ...

•The effect of each level of learning is to organize and control the information on the level below it. •Learning something on a ...

48 Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind For example, when studying the American Revolution, students learn some fundamental ...

experiment). Thus, the content becomes a vehicle for experiencing, prac- ticing, and applying the processes needed to think crea ...

The following is an expanded list of thinking words that we have culled from educational standards articulated in various part o ...

(Wiggins & McTighe, 2005). Planning from this perspective means that each level will deepen students’ thinking about the sub ...

•What metacognitive strategies did you employ to manage and mon- itor your listening skills during your work in teams? •What eff ...

Habits of Mind in the Curriculum 53 encounters, reflections, rehearsals, practice sessions, and instructions. To accomplish this ...