Learning & Leading With Habits of Mind

•Teachers find their subjects awesome, wondrous, and intriguing and express their sense of mystery and their exuberance and deli ...

Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want. —Alice Walker We b e g i n Pa r t I I o ...

If we want children to take responsible risks, to think creatively, and to think interdependently with others, then what learnin ...

I am looking at a behavior called persistence. It means like people that never give up. For an example, Christopher Columbus sai ...

blood flow and changes in activity patterns. The body-mind functioning is minimized. We become less flexible and more predictabl ...

and (2) to be caring and sensitive, to be “thoughtful” of others. The man- ner in which teachers and administrators respond to s ...

answer is a “good” thing to strive for, it’s really the process one goes through to get the right answer that interests me. In m ...

understanding and empathy, and thinking flexibly. We never fully master the Habits of Mind. Though we begin work with the habits ...

the classroom should be filled with a variety of data sources: books, ency- clopedias, almanacs, thesauruses, CD-ROMs, and datab ...

for future reference. As teachers, we must attend to all aspects of a student’s development as we develop our curriculum, instru ...

104 Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind English class? Are the Habits of Mind evident in news events? Occasion- ally it’s u ...

Creating “Thought-Full” Environments 105 perseverance, strategies, improvement, and the like) fosters hardy motivation. It tells ...

Accepting Without Judgment Nonjudgmental teachers accept what students say and do. When they accept, they give no clues through ...

affective climate and the quality of classroom interactions. She observed an increase in the level of cognitive functioning and ...

•Teachers probe less for clarification because students make infer- ences and spontaneously support them with data. •Students as ...

Paraphrasing. Simply stated, paraphrasing can be defined as respond- ing to what the student says or does by rephrasing, recasti ...

To p a r a p h r a s e e f f e c t i v e l y, t e a c h e r s mu s t ( 1 ) listen and observecare- fully to calibrate the conten ...

behaviors. Often teachers show empathy when they label a student’s feel- ings. This response communicates that the teacher hears ...

If a student uses unusual terminology, expresses a confused concept or idea, or asks a question that the teacher does not unders ...

Providing information is also an important factor in the development of a specific and powerful Habit of Mind—remaining open to ...