Habits of Mind
Good example of Striving for Accuracy
Monday, 15 April 2013
Reference Books on Habits of Mind (HoM)
Habits of Mind Across the Curriculum: Practical and Creative Strategies for Teachers
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve | January 30, 2009 | ISBN-10: 1416607633 | 237 pages
Teaching students the intelligent behaviors they need to succeed in school and later in life is much easier when you have this collection of stories and observations from teachers who have used the principles of ASCD's book Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind in their classrooms. Through these first-hand accounts, learn how the habits of mind help students at all grade levels successfully deal with the challenges they face in school and beyond. Explore how teachers make thinking skills a foundation of curriculum, not an add-on. And discover lots of model lessons and teaching strategies that weave the habits of mind into daily instruction in language arts, math, social studies, and other subjects. Here's your chance to benefit from the many schools that have adopted the habits of mind and infused them into their curriculum, instruction, assessments, and school culture.
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Media: Paperback Book, 424 pages
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
ISBN-10: 1416607412
ISBN-13: 9781416607410
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Habits of Mind - iThink
HABITS OF MIND
(After Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick, Habits of Mind: A Developmental Series, Copyright © 2000)
The Habits of Mind are an identified set of 16 problem solving, life related skills, necessary to effectively operate in society and promote strategic reasoning, insightfulness, perseverance, creativity and craftsmanship. The understanding and application of these 16 Habits of Mind serve to provide the individual with skills to work through real life situations that equip that person to respond using awareness (cues), thought, and intentional strategy in order to gain a positive outcome.
1. Persisting: Sticking to task at hand; Follow through to completion; Can and do remain focused.
2. Managing Impulsivity: Take time to consider options; Think before speaking or acting; Remain calm when stressed or challenged; Thoughtful and considerate of others; Proceed carefully.
3. Listening with Understanding and Empathy: Pay attention to and do not dismiss another person's thoughts, feeling and ideas; Seek to put myself in the other person's shoes; Tell others when I can relate to what they are expressing; Hold thoughts at a distance in order to respect another person's point of view and feelings.
4. Thinking Flexibly: Able to change perspective; Consider the input of others; Generate alternatives; Weigh options.
5. Thinking about Thinking (Metacognition): Being aware of own thoughts, feelings, intentions and actions; Knowing what I do and say affects others; Willing to consider the impact of choices on myself and others.
6. Striving for Accuracy: Check for errors; Measure at least twice; Nurture a desire for exactness, fidelity & craftsmanship.
7. Questioning and Posing Problems: Ask myself, “How do I know?”; develop a questioning attitude; Consider what information is needed, choose strategies to get that information; Consider the obstacles needed to resolve.
8. Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations: Use what is learned; Consider prior knowledge
and experience; Apply knowledge beyond the situation in which it was learned.
9. Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision: Strive to be clear when speaking and writing; Strive be accurate to when speaking and writing; Avoid generalizations, distortions, minimizations and deletions when speaking, and writing.
10.Gathering Data through All Senses: Stop to observe what I see; Listen to what I hear; Take note of what I smell; Taste what I am eating; Feel what I am touching.
11.Creating, Imagining, Innovating: Think about how something might be done differently from
the “norm”; Propose new ideas; Strive for originality; Consider novel suggestions others might make.
12.Responding with Wonderment and Awe: Intrigued by the world's beauty, nature's power and
vastness for the universe; Have regard for what is awe-inspiring and can touch my heart; Open to the little and big surprises in life I see others and myself.
13.Taking Responsible Risks: Willing to try something new and different; Consider doing things that are safe and sane even though new to me; Face fear of making mistakes or of coming up
short and don’t let this stop me.
14.Finding Humor: Willing to laugh appropriately; Look for the whimsical, absurd, ironic and unexpected in life; Laugh at myself when I can.
15.Thinking Interdependently: Willing to work with others and welcome their input and perspective; Abide by decisions the work group makes even if I disagree somewhat; Willing to learn from others in reciprocal situations.
16.Remaining Open to Continuous Learning: Open to new experiences to learn from; Proud and humble enough to admit when don't know; Welcome new information on all subjects.
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Pesta Buku Antarabangsa
PESTA BUKU ANTARABANGSA KUALA LUMPUR 2013 kembali lagi...
Majlis Buku Kebangsaan Malaysia (MBKM), Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia dengan kerjasama enam (6 ) Persatuan Industri Buku di Negara ini akan menganjurkan Pameran Buku Antarabangsa ke 32, dengan tema "Dunia Tanpa Sempadan".
Upacara pembukaan Pesta Buku Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur ke 31 ini akan diadakan pada 27 April 2013 pada jam3.00 petang di Pentas Utama, Legar Putra, Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur.
Pesta Buku Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur adalah acara pesta buku tahunan yang terbesar dan penting di negara ini. Ia melibatkan bukan sahaja dari penerbit-penerbit tempatan, malahan juga penerbit-penerbit dari negara-negara ASEANdan antarabangsa .
Majlis Buku Kebangsaan Malaysia (MBKM), Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia dengan kerjasama enam (6 ) Persatuan Industri Buku di Negara ini akan menganjurkan Pameran Buku Antarabangsa ke 32, dengan tema "Dunia Tanpa Sempadan".
Pesta Buku Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur 2013 ini berlangsung seperti berikut:
Tarikh : 26hb April 2013 hingga 5 Mei 2013
Tempat : Dewan Tun Hussein On, Dewan Tun Dr Ismail, Dewan Tun Razak 3, 4 dan Legar Putra
Pusat Dagangan DuniaPutra (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur.
Masa : 10.00 pagi 9.00 malam
Upacara pembukaan Pesta Buku Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur ke 31 ini akan diadakan pada 27 April 2013 pada jam3.00 petang di Pentas Utama, Legar Putra, Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur.
Inspirational video of an amazing man
So students....never give up.
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