STUDENTS: Habits of Mind Explanation

Metacognition means thinking about one’s thinking and realizing if you are comprehending what you are actually thinking. Modeling thinking is an approach which helps the students abilities to adapt their new information.

I would only add one more — ask yourself “how have other people handled this particular challenge in the past?”

I agree with this statement, Sometimes we can relate to past situations or experiences to bring them to real life. Reflecting on past knowledges is helpful in avoiding falling into the same mistakes and wrong responds, behave and act among others.

I had to exercise this skill as I completed the activities because I had to think of the reasoning behind why I chose those photos for my profile.

Dr. Fayne did an exceptional job of describing a Kindergarten emerging reader named Edwin and included questions wondering about his behavior and how best to assist him in his journey. I found myself wondering additional questions about this student as well. The Notice/Wonder strategy proved a great method for this task.

I used this habit of mind when responding to a Descriptive Review post by a fellow cohort member of mine.

It was an interesting challenge because we had to use a specific template for responding to our colleague’s work, yet what I had to say didn’t feel like it necessarily fit in that particular structure.

I had to use these questions, particularly the first one, to be able to really understand the process that I was participating in and to be able to then fit my thoughts into a particular mode of expression.

Becoming aware of your own thought process and acknowledging the relation one has when thinking.

El resultado del exito es la perseverancia. En primer lugar definire el exito como “un éxito o resultado feliz.” como lo dice “RAE”, entonces nace una duda, la cual es “¿Como alcanzo el exito?”, el exito se alcanza con esfuerzo y dedicacion o mas bien “perseverancia” ya que hay que tener una mente fuerte para que no renunciemos a la meta pplanteada, no porque pase algo malo echaremos todo a la basura, tenemos que seguir de pie, probando todos los caminos posible utilizar un sistema de “prueba y error” hasta alcanzar el exito.

Because I never give back and continued working hard until I finally did it. Being persistent helped me finish my assignment.

I had to seek help and feedback to have a clear idea, and this helped me realize that persisting is an important habit to implement since you look for different ways to tackle the problem and look for a solution.

Have you ever been impulsive because you are working with someone who pushes you to make quick decisions? I find this challenging to slow down and think or apply some of these strategies. Any good ideas for combatting this type if impulsivity?

I think giving students time to reflect about the question and their responses will benefit from disrupted.

I think that a deeper struggle for accuracy and precision is involved with skills that you’ve already spent a long time developing.

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to continue better at it. The further and wider you have to search for new answers and new questions.

For me, at a certain point it became easy for me to learn new skills (mostly). Refining the old ones has always been the hardest thing.

We should always remember that we can be better at what we do. There is always room to grow and information to be found. We should fall in love with the process and get better at the God given gift that we have been blessed to have.

It was important to me as I wrote my review of her to be as impartial as possible, and to simply be factual. This can be an incredibly difficult task to accomplish! Importantly, it has been a while since I last saw Amelia, and I did not spend time with her in a traditional classroom setting, but she was in the cast of actors I was directing at a theatre camp. As happens too often in education of any kind, teachers are warned about students before we meet them. Sometimes this is helpful, but it also can cause us to meet a student with negative expectations, and not to anticipate their growth as a person from one year to the next. In my descriptive review, I didn’t want to cause harm to Amelia’s reputation (though her identity would be hard to pin down for anyone who doesn’t know her), but to clearly mark my observations.

This week I had an assignment which challenged me in this particular Habit of Mind. I was supposed to write an educational proposal for a lesson plan, publish it on YouthVoices and then comment on several of my peers’ works. I did this, for the most part, but my own lack of attention to detail got me caught up in the final stages, causing me to have to go back over my own work.

There were some specific guidelines for discussion that I was required to follow, but I neglected to carefully study to the specific requirements. Although nothing bad happened, I did end up having to rewrite a comment in the more specific format that was specified. It was an example of how sometimes, the nitty-gritty details can get you — so watch out!

In contrast to the importance of accuracy and precision, I do also think that consciously employing the opposite approach from time to time can be a necessary, rewarding and fun endeavor. In a musical situation, for example, it can be often be entirely appropriate to employ a “loose” type of mindset. Such instances might include if you’re a composer and you need to paraphrase a musical idea, if you’re a soloist and you want to avoid a “rigid” type of sound, or if you’re an improvisor and you are striving for wide variation from a common theme. In these cases, a controlled, broad kind of inaccuracy is the name of the game!

I guess in the end, like anything, what does any skill mean without its opposite? What is repetition without variance? What is control without chaos? What is logic without irrationality? What is orderly without the disorderly? What is soft without loud, or high without low, wide without narrow, or sparse without dense?

Listening empathetically is especially important in music.

This is a skill that, for many people, requires practice. We are often so wrapped up in our own lives and our own thoughts that we don’t stop to inquire more deeply into what we don’t understand in conversation. When we stop to do so, we learn more about issues, our peers/loved ones, and the world around us.

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I struggled to listen sometimes. Especially if I am not interested in the conversation. However, I it is important to pay attention, because in order for me to respond appropriately I need to understand what they are saying. Also, it is not right to show the other person that you don’t care what they are talking.

When I think of listen with understanding and empathy habits of mind strategy, I think of a tool that it is important in almost every aspect of the daily life. When looking at the work of a group where members have differences and sometimes takes too much time to reach an agreement, or during the parents teacher conference, or even in the classroom dealing with students from diverse part of the world or society, the approach of listening and understand with empathy helps a great deal.

Being a flexible thinker gives more opportunity to get along with others in a social group or any other place.

Being a flexible thinker helps you look at the bigger picture in every situation. It also help us see different perspectives and find all available solutions.

zooming out as the habit of mind suggests, provides a big picture to the larger forces influencing aspects and the whole problem or challenge confronting students.

I feel sometimes we all get stuck at a point that we keep pushing through with one idea that we can’t shake and spend hours trying that same method when in reality if we had tried different methods the chances would have been different and a whole new learning experience.

Most of the questions presented in this article are the ones that illicit higher order of thinking.

I was thinking about this article — The Descriptive Review of a Child Protocol by Pat Carini and Katy Kelly (https://nowcomment.com/documents/207234). There was a very logistical question that I had shared with another reader — namely, that we noticed a significant lack of specific information on a key theme of the text.

Looking through the 7 strategies for questioning in this Habit of Mind, however, I realized that by asking questions that were more probing, I could still make sense of the Carini & Kelly document without necessarily having the particular piece of the puzzle that seemed missing.

I think that these 7 strategies can also be part of a more intuitive cognitive process. In other words, it’s not as though every thinker who implements this Habit of Mind is necessarily going through by wrote and consciously remembering to ask each of these enumerated prompts. But the strong thinker may naturally employ these types of approaches to reasoning anyway.

However, I paused to reconsider whether my statement was accurate, and realized that the visual element of the moving audio image did, in fact make the video more than one mode. I had enabled captions as well, and in that way had provided an additional mode. It almost seems less likely that something is one mode and more likely that what we encounter is multimodal.

This also allowed for establishing understanding of alternative viewpoints from different angles. Important for students in multicultural classroom or a social studies classroom for developing dialectical thinking skills.

It was amazing to see so many great thought-out proposals being related back to the habits of mind. I feel the more we question our thoughts, ideas, and problem the better we become at solving them and developing greater ideas. Many of my classmates must have sat and questioned themselves on the best proposal they can do to help better instruct students and this habit of mind plays a huge role to create ides.

Unity makes us stronger.

Essentially, I’ve been going through the Habits of Mind and thinking about how they apply to musical skills, and there is no shortage of connections.

These six important components of Thinking Interdependently — 1.) Establish roles, 2.) Test the feasibility of solutions, 3.) Listen closely, 4.) Agree on group norms, 5.) Be okay with disagreements, 6.) Learn how to give up on your idea when it is not working — could be read as a how to for successful ensemble management, no matter what musical style.

Other Habits of Mind that I’ve thought about in relation to music education have been Creating, Imagining and Innovating, Listening and Understanding With Empathy, and Taking Responsible Risks. Read more here:https://www.youthvoices.live/docs/three-habits-of-mind-3

We should come together to gain from one another. information being shared between people can only help in the present time and future generations.

For the teacher to be aware of the strategies listed below, including mental rehearsal, word choice and terminology, will prove invaluable for empowering students to express their ideas.

In terms of the work we did today on KumoSpace, it seems that it relates to this concepts. The visual components are laid out clearly with respect to a cohesive organization of ideas.

This thought process helped while going through the centers of column one because it allowed me to get help and communicate to clarify the confusions I had.

Many people do not know a language enough to express their thought in that language.

Labeling a child “a bad kid” is not only too broad of a statement, it is tremendously harmful to the student and provides no avenues for success. Saying, “I notice that this child screams and throws any items within reach at approximately 11 AM every day” is a clearer picture of what is occurring in the classroom. If we see behavior as an expression of needs, we can better help children.

The easiest way to have our past knowledge present is to apply it to new situations as best as we can to solve problems. This actually helps us build on skills and understand patterns that we may have not known before. Our past knowledge holds many answers to out present and future situations.