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Developing Self Directing Learners with

Developing Self Directing Learners with. Graham Watts, Associate Director, Institute for the Habits of Mind grahamwatts@habitsofmind.co.uk. What is it about your students that makes you think they need to learn how to think?. What do you see them doing? What do you hear them saying?

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Developing Self Directing Learners with

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  1. Developing Self Directing Learners with Graham Watts, Associate Director, Institute for the Habits of Mind grahamwatts@habitsofmind.co.uk

  2. 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?

  3. Column 1: What is it about your students that makes you think they need to learn how to learn? Fold a blank sheet of paperinto three columns

  4. 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?’ Fold a blank sheet of paperinto three columns

  5. www.habitsofmind.co.uk 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

  6. 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

  7. An icon, image, picture A poem, jingle, quote or rap List famous people who exemplify this Habit. A definition in your own words Which Habit of Mind?

  8. 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. Fold a blank sheet of paperinto three columns

  9. www.habitsofmind.co.uk Sharing the Vision

  10. FROM: Not only knowing the right answers www.habitsofmind.co.uk Curriculum Mind Shifts TO: Also knowing how to behave when answers are not immediately apparent.

  11. grahamcwatts@habitsofmind.co.uk

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