How might the Habits of Mind help your students reach the SEL Benchmarks?

Author: Liz Locatelli

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1. 2 With your home group, read and discuss and write comments and replies on the New York State Social Emotional Learning Benchmarks for your grade level.
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2. 5 Go to an expert group, above, and learn more about four of the sixteen Habits of Mind by clicking on the icons. Read, discuss, and annotate each of your sub-group of habits together. Prepare to report back to your home group about the Habits of Mind that you feel are most essential to meeting the SEL Benchmarks.

3. 6 Return to your home group, and after each member presents, discuss how the Habits of Mind might help students in your classrooms to achieve the SEL Benchmarks.

4. 7 Read and annotate the Excerpt from: “Four Attributes to Grow a Personalized Learning Culture” in NowComment with ways in which this jigsaw activity allowed you to experience aspects of Four Attributes: Voice, Co-Creation, Social-Construction and Self-Discovery. To make this activity more interactive, you can also “reply” to comments made by your peers.

DMU Timestamp: August 12, 2021 19:20