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Habits Of Mind
We use the term “Habits of Mind” to mean having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems to which we do not immediately know the answers.
These Habits of Mind may serve as mental disciplines. When confronted with problematic situations, students, parents, and teachers might habitually employ one or more of these Habits of Mind by asking themselves, “What is the most intelligent thing I can do right now?”
- How can I learn from this?
- What are my resources?
- How can I approach this problem flexibly?
- How can I draw upon my repertoire of problem-solving strategies?
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The 16 Habits of Mind
The 16 Habits of Mind identified by Costa and Kallick include:
- Persisting
- Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision
- Managing impulsivity
- Gathering data through all senses
- Listening with understanding and empathy
- Creating, imagining, innovating
- Thinking flexibly
- Responding with wonderment and awe
- Thinking about thinking (metacognition)
- Taking responsible risks
- Striving for accuracy
- Finding humor
- Questioning and posing problems
- Thinking interdependently
- Applying past knowledge to new situations
- Remaining open to continuous learning
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13 HABITS OF A SYSTEMS THINKER
The Water Foundation has identified 13 Habits of a Systems Thinker.
- Seeks to understand the “big picture”
- Observes how elements within systems change over time, generating patterns and trends
- Recognizes that a system’s structure generates its behavior: focuses on structure, not on blame
- Identifies the circular nature of complex cause and effect relationships, i.e. interdependencies
- Changes perspectives
- Surfaces and tests assumptions
- Considers an issue fully and resists the urge to come to a quick conclusion
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13 HABITS OF A SYSTEMS THINKER
- Considers how mental models (i.e., attitudes and beliefs derived from experience) affect current reality and the future
- Uses understanding of system structures to identify possible leverage actions
- Considers both short- and long-term consequences of actions
- Finds where unintended consequences emerge
- Recognizes the impact of time delays when exploring cause and effect relationships
- Checks results and changes actions if needed:, “successive approximation”
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The “habits of mind” – the routines of the affective system – enable us to associate those emotions (and feelings that follow them) with the corresponding experiences.
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