Learning & Leading With Habits of Mind

Assessing Habits of Mind 205

FIGURE 11.8

Rubric for Thinking Flexibly

Level of

Work

Expert

Practitioner

Apprentice

Novice

Criteria

In Repertoire

Uses time and resources cre-

atively to find as many ways as

possible to look at a situation.

Evaluates these many ways to

see how useful they might be.

Expresses appreciation for

others’ points of view.

Changes mind and incorpo-

rates others’ points of view in

own thinking.

Finds a variety of ways to look

at a situation and evaluates

how useful they are.

Describes some ways others’

points of view are found to be

new and different from own

perspective.

Describes different ways of

looking at a situation from

own perspective.

Looks at a situation in only

one way, and that way often is

one’s own. Looks no further

even when it is clear that

doing so would be helpful.

In Perspective

Consistently explores as many

alternatives as time and

resources will allow and ana-

lyzes how the identified alter-

natives will affect outcomes.

The alternatives illustrate

extremely diverse but highly

useful ways of looking at

situations.

Consistently generates alter-

native ways of approaching

tasks and analyzes how the

alternatives will affect those

tasks. Some alternatives show

originality in the approach to

the tasks.

Sporadically generates alterna-

tive ways of approaching tasks

and analyzes how the alterna-

tives will affect those tasks.

Some alternatives show origi-

nality in the approach to the

tasks.

Rarely generates alternative

ways of approaching tasks.

The few alternatives lack

originality.

Source: Tamalpais Elementary School, Mill Valley, California. Based on Marzano, Pickering, and McTighe, 1993.