SHARING THE VISION

THINKING SKILLS

HABITS OF MIND

COGNITIVE TASKSTHAT DEMAND

SKILLFUL THINKING

EFFECTIVE THINKING REQUIREMENTS:

CONTENT

THINKING SKILLS

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Stick to it!

1. PERSISTING

Persevering on a task even though the resolution is not immediately apparent.

2. MANAGING IMPULSIVITY

Take your time!

Acting with forethought and deliberation.

3. LISTENING WITH UNDERSTANDING AND EMPATHY

Understand others!

Devoting mental energies to understandingothers’ thoughts and feelings.

4. THINKING FLEXIBLY:

4. THINKING FLEXIBLY

Look at it another way!

Changing perspectives, generating alternatives, considering options.

Think about your thinking!

5. METACOGNITION

Being aware of your own thoughts, feelings, and actions and their effects of on others

6. STRIVING FOR ACCURACY

Check it again!

Desiring exactness, fidelity and craftsmanship.

7. QUESTIONING AND POSING PROBLEMS

How do you know?

Having a questioning attitude.Developing strategies to produce needed data. Finding problems to solve.

8. APPLYING PAST KNOWLEDGE TO NEW SITUATIONS

Use what you’ve learned!

Accessing prior knowledge and transferring it to novel situations.

Think Clearly!

Striving for accuratecommunication in writtenand oral form.

9. THINKING AND COMMUNICATING WITH CLARITY AND PRECISION

10. GATHERING DATA THROUGH ALL SENSES

Using all sensory pathways: gustatory, olfactory, tactile, kinesthetic, auditory, visual.

Use your natural pathways!

11. CREATING, IMAGINING, INNOVATING

Try a different way!

Generating new and novel ideas; fluency, originality.

12. RESPONDING WITH WONDERMENT AND AWE

Awesome!

Finding the world fascinating, mysterious, intriguing and phenomenal.

13. TAKING RESPONSIBLE RISKS

Venture Out!

Being adventuresome.Living on the edge of one's competence

14. FINDING HUMOR

Laugh a little!

Finding whimsy, incongruity and playfulness.Laughing at yourself.

15. THINKING INTERDEPENDENTLY

Work together!

Working with and learning from others in reciprocal situations.

16. REMAINING OPEN TO CONTINUOUS LEARNING

Having humility and pride in admitting there is more to learn. Resisting complacency.

Continue to learn!

Teaching Of Habits of Mind

Activities

Thinking Dispositions

AbilityHOW

InclinationWHY

SensitivityWHEN

Stages of Development

LiteracyRecognitionPersonalizingPredictionReflectionInternalizingHabituating

Learning activities followed by feedback to group.

Alternate activities on Break out TablesBuilding Collective Understandings