Helping Your Child Become A More SelfDirected Learner

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Helping Your Child Become A More Self-Directed
Learner

• Introducing the Habits of Mind

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What do you notice about your children that makes
you think that they need to become more
self-directed and better thinkers?
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• What do you observe about their behavior?
• How would you like them to be?

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How we would like them to be
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16 Habits of Mind

• Persisting
• Managing Impulsivity
• Listening with understanding empathy
• Thinking flexibly
• Thinking about thinking
• Striving for accuracy
• Questioning posing problems
• Applying past knowledge to new situations

• Thinking communicating with clarity and
  precision
• Gathering data through
• all senses
• Creating, imagining, innovating
• Responding with wonderment and awe
• Taking responsible risks
• Finding humor
• Thinking interdependently
• Remaining open to continuous learning

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QUESTIONING AND POSING
PROBLEMS
How do you know?
Having a questioning attitude. Developing
strategies to produce needed data. Finding
problems to solve.
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Questions to Stimulate the Habits

• What sense did you make of this?
• What questions came to mind as you think about
  this?
• Which part do you know for sure?
• Which part do you understand?
• Which part are you not certain about?
• What do you notice about this?
• What patterns do you notice?
• What do you wish was easier?
• What did you understand the question to be?
• What do you wonder about?
• Tell me more
• Help me understand

Getting to I Got It!, Betty K. Garner Published
by ASCD
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POSE QUESTIONS THAT CAUSE YOUR CHILD TO CHECK FOR
ACCURACYHow do you know you are right?What
other ways can you prove that you are correct?
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Additional Thoughts About Questioning

• When asking an open ended question, use good wait
  time. Do not ask another question. Allow think
  time.

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• Notice being reflectively awarethinking about
  your thinking
• Draw from past experiencemake connections
• Encourage questioning and wondering
• Encourage self monitoring, modifying, managing