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Helping Your Child Become A More Self-Directed Learner

Helping Your Child Become A More Self-Directed Learner. Introducing the Habits of Mind. What do you notice about your children that makes you think that they need to become more self-directed and better thinkers?. What do you observe about their behavior? How would you like them to be?.

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Helping Your Child Become A More Self-Directed Learner

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  1. Helping Your Child Become A More Self-Directed Learner Introducing the Habits of Mind

  2. What do you notice about your children that makes you think that they need to become more self-directed and better thinkers?

  3. What do you observe about their behavior? • How would you like them to be?

  4. How we would like them to be

  5. 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

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

  7. 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

  8. POSE QUESTIONS THAT CAUSE YOUR CHILD TO CHECK FOR ACCURACY:“How do you know you are right?”“What other ways can you prove that you are correct?”

  9. Additional Thoughts About Questioning • When asking an open ended question, use good wait time. Do not ask another question. Allow think time.

  10. Notice –being reflectively aware—thinking about your thinking • Draw from past experience—make connections • Encourage questioning and wondering • Encourage self monitoring, modifying, managing

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