Learning & Leading With Habits of Mind

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Developmental

Dimension

Learning Tasks

Teacher Facilitation

Assessment of Desired Results

FIGURE 4.2

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Framework for Teaching and Assessing Growth in Dimensions of the Habits of Mind (HOM)

ExtendingValues

• To increasingly find the val-ues and benefits of using theHOM and therefore to spon-taneously choose to employthem.•To advocate their use toothers.


• Make HOM a learning outcome; ensure that suc-cess in the classroom is connected to application ofthe HOM.•Facilitate discussions and reflections on the valuesand benefits.•Encourage students to capture their reflections,insights, and values through such means as portfo-lios, journal entries, and essays.Sample questions:•Why would it be important to employ this HOM inthis situation?•If you were to ,why would (HOM) serve you?•What are some of the reasons a might wantto use the HOM of __?•How might a _ use the HOM when ___?• What values are you expressing when you chooseto employ HOM?•What would be some of the benefits if chose to employ HOM?• Which HOM would serve in a situation likethis? Why?

The student develops deeper appreciationof the positive results achieved when apply-ing the HOM.Growth in this dimension will be recog-nized by learners increasingly being able to.. .•Express valuing of the HOM not only forself in the moment, but also generalizedto the lives of other persons and univer-sal situations.• Display an increased propensity and incli-nation for applying the HOM.•Choose to use the HOM instead ofother less productive patterns of behav-iors and explain why.•Articulate their choice to use the HOM,reflecting the value they place on it.