HABITS

HABITS OF
OF MIND
MIND
 YEAR 7
• Multiple Intelligences
– Each person is able to learn
– All humans are born with eight different
intelligences
– Each intelligence learns differently
– QUICK QUIZ – What are the eight
‘smarts’?
 YEAR 8
• Building upon what you did in year 7
• Taking it a step further
– What are your strengths?
– What areas would you like to work on?
– What Habits would you like to develop?
 What are the
HABITS OF MIND?
• Art Costa
• Research into the behaviour of successful
people – the best in their field, e.g.
athletes
• What do they have in common with the way
they go about using their minds?
• Learning to behave more intelligently
• Came up with 16 habits
• You are already using many of the
habits, at school and outside of
school
• Giving you a language to use
 THE 16
HABITS OF
MIND
 PERSISTING
Stick to it!
• Trying different strategies
• Finding different ways to reach your
goals
• Remaining focused
 MANAGING
IMPULSIVITY
Take your time!
• Thinking before acting (how many of
us DON’T do that?)
• Choose your response
• ‘Think time’ and ‘wait time’ – e.g.
count to three before call out
 THINKING FLEXIBLY
Look at it another way
• Looking at something one way and imagining it
a different way
• Being open to alternatives, differences,
change
• Coming at problems from a different angle
• Redefining what the problem is
• ‘As a result of hearing everyone’s opinions, I
have changed my mind…’
LISTENING WITH EMPATHY &
UNDERSTANDING
Understand others

• Understanding where another person is

coming from
• Another’s point of view and emotions
• LISTENING versus HEARING
• Are we always able to summarise the
opinions of others?
 STRIVING FOR
ACCURACY
Check it again
• Striving for your personal best
• Set high standards
• Getting it right – doing it better
• Checking and finding ways to improve
constantly
• Is ‘satisfactory’ good enough?
 Thinking about your
thinking
METACOGNITION
Know your knowing
• Being aware of your own thoughts,
strategies, feelings & actions
• Reflecting – what works and what
doesn’t work?
• Metacognitive awareness – how did you
solve your problem?
• 176 + 232 = ?
QUESTIONING & POSING
PROBLEMS
How do you know?

• Having a questioning attitude

• Do you remember when you were five?
• Knowing what data you need
• Developing questioning strategies to
develop that data
APPLYING PAST KNOWLEDGE
TO NEW SITUATIONS
Use what you learn!

• Access prior knowledge

• Take knowledge beyond the situation in
which it was learned
• ‘Numb3rs’
THINKING & COMMUNICATING
WITH CLARITY AND
PRECISION
Be clear!
• Fuzzy language – ‘EVERYBODY thinks that
this is so…’ Really? Is there not ONE person
who doesn’t think this way?
• Being accurate when talking and writing
• Avoiding over generalising, distorting,
deleting, exaggerating
 CREATING, IMAGINING,
INNOVATING
Try a different way

• Coming up with new ideas

• Being original
 TAKING RESPONSIBLE
RISKS
Venture out!
• Reach for the stars
• Trying something new
• Going outside your comfort zone –
growing as a person
• Measuring up the risks
• How many of us find talking in front of a
group scary?
 GATHERING DATA
THROUGH ALL SENSES
Use your natural pathways
• Tasting, smelling, touching, moving,
listening, seeing
• Gathering different sorts of data
• Learning best by taking information in
using all our senses
 THINKING
INTERDEPENDENTLY
Work together!
• Working with others
• Learning from others
• Team work
 FINDING HUMOUR
Laugh a little!
• Seeing the funny side of things
• Laughing at ourselves
• Not about putting others down
• This habit is demonstrated by the
most successful people
• Most advanced form of intelligence –
it is a difficult thing to do
 RESPONDING WITH
WONDERMENT & AWE
Have fun figuring it out
• Passionate, amazed, intrigued
• Love doing what you are doing
• The most successful love what they do –
examples?
• Opposite of:
– ‘That’s boring…’
– ‘Who cares…’
 REMAINING OPEN TO
CONTINUOUS LEARNING
I have so much more to
learn
• The teacher myth: ‘we know it all’
• Door staying open
• The most successful people always
want to learn more, to improve, to get
better
• Opposite of being arrogant
– ‘I know it all’
 ONE LAST POINT

Nothing’s stopping you from

becoming the most successful
person you can be.
 HABITS OF MIND
PORTFOLIOS
WHAT IS A PORTFOLIO?
• Collection of work
• Shows effort, growth and achievement
• Reflecting about learning
• Self evaluating
• Setting goals
WHAT CAN YOU INCLUDE?
• Tests
• Oral presentations
• Worksheets
• Role plays
• Journal writing
• Musical pieces
• Artwork
• What else?
 PORTFOLIO PROCESS
1. Collect – in your log
2. Select – pieces to include
3. Reflect – using the portfolio entry
sheet
4. Connect – at parent-teacher
interviews
 TERM 1
• Becoming familiar with the Habits of Mind
• Use your Year 7 Multiple Intelligences
portfolio to work out your strengths and
problem areas and to set learning goals for
the year
• Based on your goals, you will then select four
Habits of Mind – one from each category
• Cover page of portfolio
 THE 16 HABITS OF
MIND
Thinking
•Thinking about your thinking
(metacognition)
•Thinking and communicating with
clarity & precision
•Thinking interdependently
•Thinking flexibly
Data gathering
•Applying past knowledge to new
situations
•Questioning and problem posing
•Gather data through all senses
Responding & interacting
•Listening with understanding and
empathy
•Taking responsible risks
•Responding with wonderment and
awe
•Finding humour
•Remaining open to continuous
learning
Completing a task
•Persisting
•Managing impulsivity
•Striving for accuracy
•Creating, imagining & innovating
• You will show your development in
each habit by selecting a minimum of
two pieces of work or activities
• A total of 8 entries – 2 x 4 habits
• Each piece you include must come
from a different subject
 Term 1
• Goal setting
• Parent-Teacher Interviews
– Presentation of goals
 Term 2
• Parent-Teacher Interviews
– Goal update
• Complete entries for two of the
habits you have chosen
• Portfolio entry sheet for each piece
you include
 Term 3
• Complete entries for other two
habits you have chosen
• Present portfolios at parent-teacher
interviews in August
 Term 4
• Finishing touches
• Revisit goal setting – have you
achieved your goals and how?
• Present completed portfolios to
classmates