Developing

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Developing Self Directing Learners with
Graham Watts, Associate Director, Institute for
the Habits of Mind grahamwatts_at_habitsofmind.co.uk
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What is it about your students that makesyou
think they need to learn how to think?
What do you see them doing? What do you hear
them saying? How are they feeling?
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Fold a blank sheet of paperinto three columns

• Column 1
• What is it about your students that makes you
  think they need to learn how to learn?

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Fold a blank sheet of paperinto three columns

• Column 1
• What is it about your students that makes you
  think they need to learn how to learn?
• Column 2
• HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THEM TO BE?

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16 Habits of Mind (Costa Kallick 2000)?
1. Persisting
5. Responding with wonderment awe
2. Thinking communicating with clarity
precision
6. Managing impulsivity
7. Listening with understanding and empathy
3. Gathering data through all senses
4. Creating, imagining, innovating
8. Thinking flexibly
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16 Habits of Mind (continued)?
9. Thinking about thinking (metacognition)?
13.Questioning and posing problems
10.Taking responsible risks
14.Thinking interdependently
15.Applying past knowledge to new situations
11.Striving for accuracy
12.Finding humour
16. Remaining open to continuous learning
www.habitsofmind.co.uk
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Which Habit of Mind?
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Fold a blank sheet of paperinto three columns

• Column 1
• What is it about your students that makes you
  think they need to learn how to learn?
• Column 2
• HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THEM TO BE?
• Column 3
• Find similarities between your Column 2 ideas and
  the Habits of Mind.

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Sharing the Vision
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Curriculum Mind Shifts

• FROM
• Not only
• knowing the
• right answers

TO Also knowing how to behave when answers are
not immediately apparent.
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grahamcwatts_at_habitsofmind.co.uk