Finding the Relevance of Dimensions of Learning (DOL)

Habits of Mind (Dimension 5)• Persistence • Managing Impulsivity• Listening with Empathy

and Understanding• Metacognition• Striving for Accuracy• Applying Past Knowledge• Questioning and Posing

Problems• Thinking and

Communicating with Clarity and Precision

• Gathering Data Through All Senses

• Creating, Imagining & Innovating• Responding With Wonderment and Awe• Taking Responsible Risks• Finding Humour• Thinking Interdependently• Remaining Open to Continuous Learning

Looking for the Relevance of DOL

• Employment after school

• Skills required to gain particular jobs

Your Task:

• Find general skills/attributes that are required to gain a job e.g. excellent communication skills

• You may use any of the jobs provided in your newspaper

• Write down at least 5 skills/attributes

Inspiration – Your Results

• Match fairly closely to the Habits of Mind

One Step Further

Year 9 ResultsDo you think it would be a good idea to

improve on these skills while at school? Why?

• “they are skills that you need in later life”• “so later in life I can do better in these skills”• “because it will help me in future years when

I’m in my own job or in everday life”• “while I can, before it’s too late”• “because when I get out of school it will be a

lot harder to fix these problems”• “because it’s preventing me from doing my

best”

Conclusions• Even Year 9 students can relate to DOL when

they see the relevance• Helps students to see why we are trying to

teach them these skills• Helps start students thinking about their

learning (metacognition)• Acts as basis – next time:

– investigate a famous person and look at what skills/attributes they had

– when discussing their assignment or scientific report, relate back to the importance of communication skills