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Developing the Habit of Mind

Developing the Habit of Mind. Scaling up research-based practice in education. “Habit of Mind” Project. Our profession woeful at learning about and replicating effective practice Completely unclear where educators can turn for guidance re urgent desire to improve practice & student learning

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Developing the Habit of Mind

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  1. Developing the Habit of Mind Scaling up research-based practice in education

  2. “Habit of Mind” Project • Our profession woeful at learning about and replicating effective practice • Completely unclear where educators can turn for guidance re urgent desire to improve practice & student learning • Educators don’t possess habit of mind to seek out research for pressing concerns

  3. “Habit of Mind” Project • Online databases good for much more than essays & bibliographies • Vast majority of research findings are in online research databases (e.g., EBSCO) • Educators need to know why andhowto use online databases to locate research-based practices • Otherwise, our profession will continue struggling to scale good practice

  4. “Habit of Mind” Project • Key obstacles? • Candidates say: why learn how to use such databases when lose affordable access moment they graduate? • Preservice curriculum reinforces: use databases only for essays & annotated bibliographies, to get academic grade, not to enrich their practice & student learning • Much of the vocabulary used in research not same as that used by practitioners & policy makers

  5. “Habit of Mind” Project • First Approached EBSCO re lowering high cost for prep program alums’ access to research databases • EBSCO said “sure...but you’re not asking the right question” • “You need digests!” • Immediate access • Written in lay terms (no jargon barriers) • Developed & maintained by expert panel on that topic

  6. “Habit of Mind” Project EBSCO agreed to offer: • Deeply discounted pricing as we scale up ($10/year) • Free 24/7 user support • Digest development once serve >10,000 subscribers • Am exploring interest at Association of Teacher Educators, NEA, NBPTS, AFT, etc. to take to scale and finance digest development

  7. EBSCO Pricing to Access Deep Web Portal

  8. “Habit of Mind” Project: The NH Experiment • All 15 NH IHEs with educator preparation programs involved • Steps we envision: • Clarify candidate learning outcomes • Know re databases that have info on research based practices keyed to their P12 student learning priorities • Know how to efficiently use these databases to readily locate effective, relevant practices • Know how create communities of practice to help implement effective practices • (Habit of Mind now a CAEP accreditation expectation) • NEA just gave grant to provide free professional development to faculty, candidates & cooperating educators

  9. “Habit of Mind” Project • Steps we plan: • Create learning opportunities in preservice curriculum & field experience to attain outcomes • Develop/pilot candidate assessments for these learning outcomes • Digital Opportunity Consortium lines up partners to take Digital Research Library to scale for • Affordability for all prep programs’ grads, and • Finance ongoing digest development and maintenance • Work with Follett & EBSCO to provide free PD on both research and instructional databases • ATE tech committee provides faculty development at ATE conferences

  10. For more information Presented by Robert T. McLaughlin, Ph.D. Founder & Co-Chair, Digital Opportunity Consortium Chair, Association of Teacher Educator’s technology commission Administrator, Professional Educator Preparation Program Approval New Hampshire Department of Education 101 Pleasant Street Concord NH 03301 Office: 603.271.2634 Cell: 802.249.1159 http://www.digitalopportunityforall.org/habit-of-mind.html

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