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Creating a Context for 21st Century Learners:
Habits of Mind, Thinking Skills and Schoolwide Learning Expectations
Northwest Catholic Educational
Leadership Institute
June 19-21, 2012
Presented by
Bena Kallick, Nancy Skerritt,
and Peggy Olcott
The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but whose who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler
Free Powerpoint Templates
Rationale for Habits of Mind and thinking skills for 21st Century Learners
Habits of Mind and thinking skills support Schoolwide Learning Expectations
Repertoire of strategies for teaching and integrating HoM and thinking skills with SLE’s
Day One Day Two Day Three
Welcome! Institute Overview Creating a Context for Learners: Habits of Mind
Spotlight on Metacognition & Questioning: The Three Story Intellect
Strategies for Assessing Habits of Mind: Check Lists, Rubrics & Other Tools
Exploring the Habits of Mind with Picture Books Team Planning
Teaching Thinking Skills Directly: Main Idea Team Planning
Integrating Assessments with Lessons & Units Team Planning
Implementing HoM through a Variety of Roles
Thinking Skills, Graphic Organizers, Strategy Charts
Habits of Mind & the Mindful School: Tracking our Progress
Curriculum Applications & Toolkit Team Planning
Applying TS to Non-Fiction Text Team Planning
Short/Long-term Planning for Implementation
Shifting Paradigms
Old Paradigm The school’s mission is to
produce an educated, literate person – one who has mastered basic skills and acquired significant concepts.
Shifting Paradigms New Paradigm The school’s mission is to produce lifelong learners
who continue their personal development and who promote the well-being of the larger community.
--Costa and Liebmann
Educators must navigate the difficult path between letting go of old patterns and grabbing onto new ones.
Habits of Mind | Thinking Skills
Agenda
Welcome!
What are the Habits of Mind?
Exploring a Curriculum Framework
Embedding HoM in lessons
Connections & Applications
Grounding
Individually: Select a Habit of Mind card that you believe is important
Quartets: Share in round-robin fashion the Habit of Mind and your reasons for choosing it
How might these link to your school’s SLE’s?
h/o p. 22
21st Century Learning
Using content and concepts as a vehicle to develop skills and strategies including Habits of Mind, thinking skills, and Schoolwide Learning Expectations
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. Harvey Mackay
Habits of Mind – Resource Section
1. Persisting 2. Managing Impulsivity 3. Listening to Others with
Understanding & Empathy 4. Thinking Flexibly 5. Thinking about our Thinking
(Metacognition) 6. Striving for Accuracy &
Precision 7. Questioning & Problem
Posing 8. Applying Past Knowledge to
New Situations
9. Thinking & Communicating with Clarity & Precision
10. Gathering Data through the Senses
• Creating, Imagining, Innovating
• Responding with Wonderment & Awe
• Taking Responsible Risks • Finding Humor • Thinking Interdependently • Learning Continuously
Line Ups
Create 3 line-up groups
Line up in order by the number of years taught
Least Most Number off 1-16
Create Expert Groups based on assigned number and sit together (See Resource section)
Gallery Walk
Individually:
Walk the “gallery” viewing each wanted poster
Table Groups:
What helps anchor your understandings of the Habits of Mind?
Strategies for Presenting the HoM
• Skits • Word Walls • Wanted Posters • T-Shirt Designs • Banners • Bumper Stickers • Create an App • Cartoons • Buttons • Assemblies • Others?
MANAGING IMPULSIVITY
“DON’T CALL OUT
IN ASSEMBLY IF
YOU LOOSE A
TOOTH. YOU WAIT
UNTIL ASSEMBLY
IS OVER.”
GAGE, GRADE 1
ACRONYMS:
QUEEN
ELIZABETH
SCHOOL
STUDENTS:
Pose powerful Questions
Try to Understand others
Empathize with others
Are Eager learners
Never give up
WHERE THINKING REIGNS SUPREME!
Reflections and Connections – h/o p. 4
Share with a near neighbor:
Two Habits of Mind I demonstrate:
Two Habits of Mind that challenge me:
Two Habits of Mind I admire:
Most Important Point
Think of a significant point or personal connection you are making
Share your thinking with a near neighbor
Return to your school teams after break
Agenda
Welcome!
What are the Habits of Mind?
Exploring a Curriculum Framework
Embedding HoM in lessons
Connections & Applications
Direct Instruction Lessons
Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz!
Celebrating Creativity!
• Creating, Imagining, Innovating
• Responsible
Risk Taking
• Flexibility
• Persistence
• Empathy
Finding Evidence of HOM – h/o p. 5
Number off from 1- 4
(your Home Group)
Find Evidence:
#1 Creating, Imagining, Innovating
#2 Risk Taking
#3 Persisting
#4 Empathy
Roberto Sharing
Step One
• Find two or three other people assigned the same HoM
• Create an Expert Group
• Share your evidence adding additional data as desired
• Create a “Looks like/Sounds Like” chart for your HoM
(h/o p. 10)
Roberto Sharing
Step Two
• Return to your Home Group
• Share the evidence for your HoM
• Two minutes per person!
• What are you discovering about Roberto?
Connecting HoM to SLE’s – h/o pp. 8-9
School Teams:
Identify three SLE’s for a focus
What Habits of Mind might be embedded in those SLE’s?
Prioritize which Habit(s) of Mind might be chosen for initial implementation
Picture Book Sampler – h/o pp. 11-13
• Explore the listing of different picture books for teaching the Habits of Mind
• What other picture books come to mind for teaching the Habits of Mind for your grade level?
• Brainstorm how you might teach to a Habit of Mind using a picture book that you select
“I had an epiphany.”
Creating, Imaging and Innovating
Learning Partners – h/o p. 14 (HoM: Thinking Interdependently)
_______________
______________ _______________
Your partner’s name
Think, WRITE, Pair, Share
Think & Write
Two Habits of Mind I wish for my students: (h/o p. 4)
Find your partner
Share & Extend Share your thinking and reasons for choosing these Habits of Mind
Ways to Integrate Habits of Mind
Starring Role! Supporting Role! Ensemble!
Key Concepts/ Key Ideas
Partners:
• Read selection on your own, highlighting key words or short phrases
• Take turns sharing and discussing highlighted items (h/o pp. 15-16)
12 minutes - listen for the chime
Video Observation Tool – h/o p. 17
As you view the video clips, what might be some
- validations
- intriguing possibilities
- applications
for your work setting?
Direct Instruction Lessons – h/o p. 17
Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz!
Application Lessons
HABITS OF MIND!
in a Supporting Role
Habit of Mind as Ensemble!
Beginning the Journey… With your school teams: How might you start with implementing Habits
of Mind in your content/classes and/or school? Consider connections to one or more of the SLE’s
Two options: -Exploring HoM in different roles -Exploring a unit design that integrates HoM, thinking skills and content skills
Lesson Exploration – h/o p. 19
Option One: • Jigsaw the lessons in the notebook for
casting HoM in different roles
(Resource section)
• What are you discovering?
• What does it mean to cast a Habit of Mind in a Starring Role? a Supporting Role? an Ensemble Role?
School Teams:
Resources for Unit Design
Option Two:
• Explore the Curriculum Development Toolkit
(h/o pp. 27-40)
• How are the HoM integrated?
School Teams:
Unit Preview – h/o pp. 27-28
• Review the components of the unit including guiding questions, Habits of Mind, and thinking skills
• In what ways might you adapt this model to your content and SLE’s?
Offsite Learning Experience (OLÉ!)
• Read chapter 12, “Creating Thoughtful Readers through Habits of Mind,” pp. 115-134
• Use the 3-2-1 template to capture your thinking
(h/o p. 41)
• If you want, choose another chapter to explore
Voices of Teachers and Students