STUDENTS: Habits of Mind Explanation
Author: Institute for Habits of Mind
Costa, Arthur, Bena Kallick, and Allison Zmuda. “Students: Habits of Mind Explanation - Habitsofmindinstitute.org.” Institute for Habits of Mind, https://www.habitsofmindinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Student-HOM-Explanation.pdf.
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Learning concepts are essential elements of applying skills.
Como lo mencionaste anteriormente, puedes sacar un 100% en un examen sin saber realmente los conceptos que te ayudaran en un futuro, puesto que en un sistema de educación actual no se aprende como debería, los alumnos están acostumbrados a memorizar todo en lugar de pensar por si mismos y comprender lo que están haciendo.
With this final activity of the unit, I discover that while completing the different exercises, I do not think about “The Habits of Mind.” It is something that, at the moment, happens unconsciously. However, it was at the end of the activity, when I needed to write about it, that I got to analyze how my brain was working.
While I was reading and commenting on “The Descriptive Review of a Child Protocol,” I was thinking flexibly and interdependently. Not everyone processes information in the same way. Being flexible is a tool I am incorporating into my thinking and understanding. I want to stop judging and start to understand. I feel that I think about my thinking all the time, especially when I have to comment on others’ work.
Also, I feel that somehow, I was trying to apply what I learned during the reading into the reviews. I was looking for similarities.
Honestly, when I was reviewing my draft, I was changing words to present my ideas with clarity and precision.
Another ‘Habit of Mind’ that I used while completing the last part of “The Descriptive Review of a Child” while commenting on my classmate was “Thinking & communicating with clarity and precision.” I want my comment to be simple, respectful, and clear.
While writing my BIO, this habit of mind is the one I feel I implemented the most. Even though I was able to write the ideas I got from the reading on my own, reflecting and asking questions to my classmate helped me build a better understanding of what to do during this assignment. So yes, working on my own and with the help of others helped me make a better job.
While reading Jacob’s descriptive review and later writing my child study, I was able to respond and share with details my case. More so, I was able to reflect on how to think and communicating with clarity and precision. Writing a report like such can take a lot of time and can be very consuming, that is why focusing on precise details and clear comments can help you when recorded this type of document. It is important to have a clear mind and reach for accuracy so that whoever reads the report can understand what you are telling them about the child and what is the purpose of such review.
I am exited with the interpretation of the HOM related to thinking and communicating with clarity and precision because you linked well, but I was wondering if the description could be applied to multimodal using visual, voice and sound making a video of the presentation. I think this is great post to be utilized during and oral presentation video. Great job Claudia!
Thinking flexibly is the habit I most needed while creating a discussion. My goal was to create a post where others could reflect on but at the same time where my opinion was understood. I also took into consideration the post other people shared so that from there I could start building my own idea and response.
The main objective of the innovative approaches are very clear when the author wrote: “Habits of Mind are dispositions people need to implement when confronted with problems and situations to which the answers are not immediately apparent” This implies that they are not just for teachers and students, they should be available for parents as well. Just like teachers dealing with students and parents, students dealing with the academic activities, and parents facing their children difficult challenges the Habits of Mind would be a great resource for all.
As educator of mostly minority students I have met families who need the school support in order to support their children education and by providing workshops to parents geared to the teaching of the different skills of the HOM, the complete school community will be involved in the new movement of teaching and learning these modalities. Together we can create a better population of learners.
while reading my classmates multimodal post and writing my own, I was able to reflect on this habit of mind. reading and writing the post made me think and ask myself the pros and cons of technology and how it’s been implemented in the classroom. it also made me realize the importance of providing students with a variety of materials that can help them learn through all possible approaches.
while writing the proposal I was driven by my senses and the feelings I got from the outside world. Observing the environment and collecting data allowed me to reflect on how other people may experience when confronting situations they are not familiar with.
This habit got me tremendously when choosing my avatar and creating my profile. At first, it was just a profile I was creating and personalizing with the things that I like, but then when I was asked why I choose the avatar picture and the cover pic It made me realized that sometimes we do things just to get them done without knowing that unconsciously we are reflecting our own persona on it.
this habit is the one that resonated the most while planning my proposal. I feel that thinking about ways on. how to help students learn about the habits of mind and how the skills needed to grow in such areas is a way of innovating myself in the way that I can reflect on my own mistakes too provide a better approach to my students.
Thinking helps to put you back at the time and place of an event and recall the actions that took place or how you were feeling at the time of the event. Thinking also brings clarity and understanding.
Metacognition helps me in revisiting the way I teach and the lesson effect on the students.
As you stated it will help us have a better lesson directed to our students and would bring awareness to monitor and modify our thoughts. Metacognition allows us to think more deeply and ask the question we otherwise wouldn’t.
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo, memorizar no es la única ni la forma más eficaz de aprender, e incluso es posible obtener una puntuación perfecta en un examen sin una comprensión real de los conceptos enseñados. Podemos ver que gran parte del sistema educativo se enfoca en memorizar información en lugar de fomentar el pensamiento independiente y comprender realmente lo que se enseña. En este sentido, es fundamental para nosotros reevaluar la forma en que se les enseña a los estudiantes, ya que eso influirá en su formación e incentivos posteriores. Aunque es más fácil apegarse a una práctica establecida, debemos abrir nuestras mentes y pensar en soluciones creativas y flexibles que aún permitan la comprensión. Con esto, podemos asegurarnos de que todos tengan la oportunidad de aprender de una manera que los ayude a crecer individualmente.
I think it helps to think about your thinking, your feelings, and specific actions because we are constantly learning more about ourselves and it helps us develop the image or the aspects of ourselves that we wish others to know.
I found a website that contains information about better understand “Thinking about Your Thinking.” ( https://www.brookline.k12.ma.us/Page/2146 ) I hope this information can be of some benefit to you.
I believe this to be true as well Marissa. I find that the more I mentally rehearse a task (whether personal or professional) I discover that I have more success towards meeting my objective. I have learned that modeling metacognitive processes with my students is incredibly beneficial towards their task initiation and completion.
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.
Thinking about all the microsteps that exist between a start and end point is important. This reminds me of computational thinking and how decomposing is necessary in order to understand completely or to get the results we are looking for.
I would only add one more — ask yourself “how have other people handled this particular challenge in the past?”
That would be a wonderful addition to the list of questions! By studying others’ life experiences and hearing their stories, learners can discover different pathways that are possible.
I love this addition Jesse! I think it would also be powerful to ask "What have I done/faced in the past that is similar challenge/problem/solution? Someone else commented on reflection above and I think reflecting on our own past fosters metacognition as well.
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.
En este momento de mi vida estoy intrigado por las cosas que voy a vivir y lo que puedo aprender antes de “aprenderlo por la mala”, a veces me he encontrado en situaciones de estrés constante y he intentado diversas técnicas parecidas a esta, sin embargo no he obtenido los resultados estimados
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.
A person who wants to be a singer and does not posses the voice, persistency will not work. Even a teacher without the devotion persistency to become a better teacher will not work either.
I might not be the best student or employee, but something that i do well is persist. Being persistance gives you vital experience. It allows you to learn from your failures. And it helps you to learn how to overcome any challenges. As a mother I try to help my daughters to persist, because they are not princesses.
Mas alla de no tener las habilidades por nacimiento o no tener las distintas oportunidades que otras personas si pueden tener, la perseverancia te ayuda a sobresalir y ser mejor que los demas
For example, I want to be a swimmer, but if I do not have the persistence to attend practice at least twice per week, I won’t learn the skills I need to achieve my goal.
It took me years to get my school papers transferred from the Dominican Republic to USA. I had to travel about four times because the transcripts never reached CUNY. I persisted trying and finally I was able to enrolled to CUNY.
Hi Regina,
I had similar experience with my high school diploma. It was a headache for me to received. My cousins had to do multiple trips to the school. However, I did received and was able to become a CUNY student as you.
The work produced while working on the Habits of Mind dispositions and the implementation with students in the classroom forced me to learn each of the sixteen skills.
While commenting on Marlen post I noticed that her work was on the implementation “Persisting” during her restorative circles in her class on Mondays and Fridays, She clearly presented the settings and steps on delivering the the activities. But I felt, that the problem of cellphones among others was a problem that many of the school teachers are facing today. I suggested her to watch a video on which the presenter demonstrates techniques and steps in conducting the restorative circles. The lesson was using these circles meetings to develop or enhance the skill of persisting and in the video and in the activities described in the letter of proposal.
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.
I had worked my way up the A column then went to the right and saw make a comment so I did, without first reading that I was supposed to follow a guide haha.
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?
Striving for accuracy was evident in completing the tasks involved in this programs. To me, I have been striving to get every task completed and understanding these platforms. I am more convinced that the habits of mind are here to stay in my teaching.Teachers never end learning because there is always a new strategy coming out to make teaching and learning more effective. A teacher who research becomes more accurate in his/her teaching style.
To construct any type of assessment we must see it from an educational perspective. We must answer every question as detailed as possible that could genuinely help us improve as teachers while attaining to our students.
In creating my bio post/first discussion post, I paid close attention to my work and to the instructions provided. I took a look at the platform’s right side bar for further guidance. I also took a look at a peer’s post after publishing mine to see if mine look like theirs on the website.
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?
As I mentioned in my comment on the post my partner is always having conversations with inmates and it’s pretty 50/50 between listening and talking but he gets to really know more about the people he has to care for. Body language, facial expressions, and eye movements are something he always has to place close attention to because sometimes what people are saying and doing are two different things.
To see your post and see that an inmate was actually able to turn his life around is amazing because not many inmates get the opportunity to redeem themselves and change. We all deserve second chances because we all learn as we go. We all make mistakes or bad choices and sometimes it may be due to the influence in our environment. However, we must be effective listeners first so everyone can be heard. Everyone deserves to be heard.
Working in hospitality you have to be able to listen. Whether it’s with coworkers, customers, or bosses to ensure you all are trying to reach the same solution. When being around kids you listen, pause, paraphrase, and probe them to teach them to also listen with understanding and empathy.
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.
Thinking can not be fixed on every topic. I have learned down through the years that people have different perspectives on situations and that is ok. Just because two people have differences of opinions does not mean they can not understand one another.
Being open to other pathways of learning, thinking, and problem solving is a key to being able to reach all kinds of learners or people in general. Tolerating confusion and ambiguity because there might be other solutions that maybe have a bumpy start but a better finish.
I think it was important to shift and try to see other’s interpretations of the various habits of mind. At first I wasn’t sure how other’s had interpreted the task but I enjoyed seeing the different connections we all made to multimodal items. Replying to other comments also helped me try to think what the other participants focus is when moving through these articles and ideas. Some of us are focused on how it applies to education, while other’s apply the ideas to their career journey or life decisions.
I Use listening with understanding and empathy during my morning meeting group work. Also, this is very helpful to obtain information about the students and family because when I pay attention to their needs, I know what to use to provide the necessary resources. Sometimes a child shows some form or behaviors in class that can be assessed by listening to what he/she says.
Being a flexible thinker gives more opportunity to get along with others in a social group or any other place.
You have mentioned that you are a teacher who seeks to foster a culture of thinking flexibly in your classroom. You have noticed, through your experience, that when students are encouraged to think flexibly, their understanding of the material improves. As you read the text, look for connections between what you know from your experiences as a teacher and specific points the text makes about how to foster a culture of thinking flexibly. Ask yourself, “What insights can I gain from this text about how to best help my students think flexibly?” As you reread the text, think about other ways that you might be able to use this information to benefit your students.
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.
Also, I’m wondering how teachers feel about the protocol. Teachers who have and have not been able to apply them in their classroom.
I found this quote to be relevant to the teaching of mathematics while developing or teaching the Habits of Mind in the classroom. Marina demonstrated creativity in using the creation of video for the purpose of teaching students these skills. I provided her with a link to a video where students use questions trying to solve a problem. Marina’s work provided the mean for me to plan and to connect “Questioning and Posing Problems” to the teaching of number operations in mathematics. I connected the Habit of Mind of questioning and posing problems to using the " wonder and notice" while teaching numerations.
I am glad you have been encouraged. I feel sometimes that’s what we need more encouragement for so we can speak up and not be afraid. I had that same problem growing which is the reason I hate participating but little by little one gains confidence.
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.
While writing my BIO, this habit of mind is the one I feel I implemented the most. Even though I was able to write the ideas I got from the reading on my own, reflecting and asking questions to my classmate helped me build a better understanding of what to do during this assignment. So yes, working on my own and with the help of others helped me make a better job.
When writing the description of a child you are not only considering the relationship between you and the child but all the relationships they have created. We have to consider how some people know just the right things to say or do for the student and come together to contribute to the common goal.
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
I think it is critical that educators plan their use of language in their classrooms. Educators are role models, and students are constantly observing the their teacher. Exposure to clear and precise language usage can greatly benefit students’ learning via modeling.
I feel the same way Richard! Last year, I dug heavily into this habit with my third graders. We all became very conscious of our use of language! I’m curious about the protocol mentioned in this article.
https://www.wgu.edu/heyteach/article/guide-giving-clear-instructions-students-that-they-will-actually-follow2001.html.
It is important for us as teachers/ educators to use language to help students grow in their thinking and communication. We have to introduce new ways for students to use language to communicate with one another. If we ask them who, what, where, when, why, and how, this will have them to dig deeper into themselves to give an explanation. In return this will help them grow in self expression instead of giving one or two word answers to describe themselves or their view point on something.
I was thinking about my peers when they get to read my comments. And I want them to fully understand my point of view.
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.
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.
This habit of mind I use a great deal during my reading group in my 3-K class. I retrieve information from the previous reading in order to activate the student prior knowledge.
I attempted to use this habit of mind when constructing an observation of a difficult student. You can view my account here — https://www.youthvoices.live/descriptive-review-of-a-broken-child-raheem/
In general, this HOM is necessary to function in your day to day as an educator, since you’re constantly meeting new students and encountering new challenges. One must relate them to what they already know.
On the other hand, in this particularly difficult school year, many veteran teachers told me that they had felt as though they were completely unprepared for the immense challenges. Almost as though they could not make their prior knowledge apply to the given situation.
I think that prior knowledge always relates to handling any challenge, but it may not always come together in a way that one expects.
I remember a past knowledge during a math lesson in kindergarten class where I tried to use M&M candies as counters. and the students started to eat them before the lesson ended. My supervisor advised me not to use candy or any edible counters with low grade students. That past knowledge is something I remember and today, I do not use candy in my lessons.
When writing the description of a child I had to look back at some of the strategies that have and have not been beneficial. This is so that we can build on the strategies that worked and not waste time or energy on the ones that didn’t. I want to reflect on the things that make a child uneasy or overwhelmed and see what adjustments can i make to help conquer those feelings.
Looking at other people’s descriptions of children makes you think of ways to help them succeed academically. The description makes me picture the child and reflect on strategies the teacher can implement to support the student.
I enjoyed writing my letter and expressing my ideas. This activity reminds me a lot of teaching techniques and how to write an effective lesson plan.
I created a proposal for a music lesson plan which centered on the Habit of Mind “Thinking Interdependently” See the proposal here: https://www.youthvoices.live/docs/hom-proposal.. This was based on some musings from an earlier assignment (see: https://www.youthvoices.live/using-habits-of-mind-to-play-music-better/).
Although the content of the proposed lesson plan was centered on the “Thinking Interdependently” HOM, I found that I actually had to use more of the “Applying Past Knowledge” HOM in order to create it. That’s because it took a fair bit of piecing together old skills to figure out exactly how the more general metacognitive techniques of Interdependent Thinking specifically fit into music.
In order to do this, I had to constantly ask myself some of the following questions, “What musical experiences does this problem remind me of? How can I relate the principles of this HOM to musical situations that I’m familiar with? What parts of the problem of applying HOM to music could I use more clarity on?”
I have a fair amount of musical skills amassed over the years that made this assignment fairly straightforward. Namely, there was a workshop I took in my undergraduate studies in which we practiced creative music composition and improvisation techniques that came in handy. Relying on the way of thinking I practiced during this time of my life was quite helpful in this activity.
There were certain aspects of this lesson plan in which my past experience didn’t directly apply. Particularly finding some standards to use. Picking a desired educational outcome for my lesson planning is a relatively new skill for me, since I would describe myself as a process-oriented teacher.
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.
I recalled my past experiences with other platforms I had to set up before, and I used what I learned from those experiences and applied it in both situations.
with friends, professors, and in classes. It catches my eye and brings so much past knowledge learned in conversations and research to this new experience of YouthVoices. It has shown how this global issue connects us all.
I feel that all of the different tasks in my life I have navigated through stem from another part of my life. I love to recall pieces of other things im certain of to move forward with something new and sometimes more challenging.
The questions asked in the article makes you think about the child’s characteristic and help you understand the child better. It also makes you think about strategies you can implement in the classroom in order to help the student.
“Gathering Data Through All Senses” This is an integral part of learning because when a students view, hear and touch what is to be learning, the acquisition would be easier. This is aligned with the multimodal concept since it requires for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic sensory elements to be present in a piece of literature to have a better impact on the learner. I also see the implementation of the development of his HOM in the 3-K centers as they interact with the different foundation activities. In the 3-K centers each sense is developed including the gustatory and olfactory that can be taught during lunch time.
Sometimes we are so busy running around that we don’t stop to take in the nature around us and assimilate our own accomplishments. So looking back at these two photos I can smile and say I have come this far. Although it’s tough life is beautiful!
While doing the various steps to create my profile, I feel that used a lot of creating and imagining. For example my profile, I used my graduation picture then I had to really think about what I love. I chose NYC and then had to think about the image I wanted, I love bright colors so an animated city seemed like a fun idea which I was able to create.
Very true Elizabeth, I used a little imagination in my profile. However, I don’t think I was very creative. I think I lack much more creativity. But the truth is, I hope to get it since I’m going to be working with children and I’m going to have to find it there.
When going about the introductory doc task in Youth Voices, I found myself a bit stuck but once I focused I was able to allow myself to quickly write and create and imagine how I wanted to edit my writing to tell some time of story. It was fun recording my writing and exploring yet another feature of the Youth Voices platform.
Just because it’s called a “profile picture” doesn’t mean it has to be a photo of a person. I think sharing an image other than my face says more about me than a headshot does – though it might make it more difficult for people to pick me out of a crowd.
I like to think that way too Emily! Although getting “stuck” can be frustrating, it also allows me to dig deeper and look for inspiration in places that I didn’t expect to find an answer in. It invites us to ask questions about what is possible. It reminds me of “A More Beautiful Question.”
I have to remember that it is not a major tragedy if I have to stop and come back to a task. I need to remember to stay on an even keel. This means “Don’t take yourself too seriously.”
The paragraph about the Dunning-Kruger effect felt particularly out of place when I was first looking at my comment/building blocks. I decided to keep it and to tie it in more personally to my life experiences than it had been originally, and now it makes me smile! I hope anyone else who happens to read it will enjoy it as well.
We should take the risk. That is easier said than done with sone people and I understand that. Some of us do not take the risk because we start coming up with outcomes in our mind that have not happened yet. We begin to rehearse reasons why we should not instead of seeing reasons why we should. We should just go through and if it does not work out that is not working against us, it is working for us because now we know what will not work. Now we come up with a different solution and keep looking until we come up with one that work. Why stay in a place that’s not working when we can move and see what happens. The may not feel good at first, but it will work out for our good!
everything. When we think of an event as a problem or a challenge, we become scared, anxious and etc. When we think of an event as a opportunity, we relatively believe we can learn and re – learn.
I can say the opposite of being a risker is having fear. The fear of moving on to something new or being rejected. But honestly both are better. Moving on to some thing new means you learn a set of new skills just about in every way such our personal skills, life skills, professional skills and academical skills. Being rejected can also be good because it means you took the risk, you tried and can be and impulse one may need to keep aspiring and try again. Risk taking is not failing it’s learning to succeed and making you better to take even higher risks whether it is at a job or in school.
After introducing myself them, talk about my three habits of minds that best fits with myself
When we are creating, some of us, out limits on ourselves and as we continue to create we can see that we have gone beyond our expectations for other selves. A lot of times this happens have the task is over and we review everything. We can learn not to put limits on ourselves and enjoy the progress that may teach us something new about ourselves.
Understanding the Habits of mind will make a great impact on the teaching style of any educator. For example the traditional way of teaching a mathematic lesson on number operations takes a different dimension when it taught or delivered by HOM trained educator in contract with a traditional educator. I remember writing on the board operations such as : 4+5 =. 6+9=, and os on. Today, after learning the approach “Creating, Imagining, and Innovating”, I will use the “notice, and wonder”to illicit the students to be creative and imagine or to wonder about the task. Instead of giving them operational fact as shown previously, I will write two numbers on the board and ask them what do they wonder about the two digits without sharing their wonders aloud. Next, I will ask students what do they notice followed by an oral explanation. For example, if given the 4 and 5, some students may say that is 9, others, the answer is 20, or maybe one is even and the other is odd.
This is way to implement the Habits of Mind in mathematics. It is important that every answer should charted down on the board for the teacher and students to review each “notice” for correction or changes if necessary.
Today I made a comment on an interesting article that I read — An Interconnected Framework for Assessment of Digital Multimodal Composition (https://nowcomment.com/documents/312304). I gave some examples of how this framework could be used in music education.
“Thinking by using analogies” and “brainstorm unexpected ideas” pretty accurately described the mental process that I had to go through in order to actually draw these important parallels.
At first read, I had to force myself to think outside of the box to consider how these principles might apply to music. After I allowed myself to follow through with the idea, the connections were fairly evident.
I did not even know how strong of a connection there actually was until I allowed myself to get a bit playful with my thinking.
I provided a suggestion of tasking students to present a biography of their favorite composer (complete with recordings of the student’s favorite pieces they wrote), perhaps at the end of the school year, after the final concert. I hope my suggestion was helpful!
Unpacking the descriptive review of a child protocol by reading the various examples shed light on creating a profile of a student. Brainstorming using the four categories revealed behavioral patterns and peer group influence, academic interest, and willingness to engage in social activities, and institutional representation serving their wellbeing and dignity. The profile created represented moment in a childs development that is in constant motion and struggle. Therefore, the exercise seeks to encourage a profile that will change as the child progresses academically, influenced by the child’s material conditions.
for instance, in a students process of investigation alongside peers, will generate new ideas from mistakes or reinforce truths. this can be done through feedback related to that investigative process from peers, correcting steps along the way.
Sometimes taking risks means innovating and allowing room for mistakes from which we can learn from.
absurd ideas to create new insights meaningful to me.
All ideas may seem crazy at first and if we go asking people their opinions about it we may seem even crazier to them. The best thing we can do with ideas is think about them amongst ourselves and try them out. sometimes we talk ourselves out of ideas and say thing like " this will never work" or listen to people that say " this will never work. Before anything worked in the world it never worked before. So go and try it and see what happens.
I believe having fun while learning allows students to better understand ideas and analogies, and gives them a different perspective in which they can play with.
Like they say " If you don’t laugh you’ll cry" Whenever i am pressed with an issue that is awfully stressfully I naturally look to the light of things and have to laugh. I think this helps myself and my brain to slow down catch my breathe and resume to where i need to be.
Initially, when introduced to Kumospace I was very confused and a bit resistant so I made sure that this time around I came in with positive thoughts and a bit of wonderment and awe about setting up my profile and learning how to use this space.
This is one of my favorite habits and so fun to observe in others, especially in the classroom. As an educator, it is an exciting experience to discover how you can authentically invite students to sustain their curiosity. It is a way for us to also sharpen this habit too!
This is becoming one of my favorite Habits of Mind, as it is really how many students come into new situations and new information. As I read through the discussion posts from my searches, I realized I was highly intrigued ready to dive into the many opportunities for conversation and learning.
I was able to express when I didn’t know something and ask for help to my peers. At the same time, I was able to connect with them.
We had conversations about it all day on the beach and I was extremely open to his opinion and knowledge, even though I disagree with the view entirely.
Mentors are wonderful because they are the ones that have the experience and are more knowledgable to guide you giving you extra confidence to achieve your goals and desires. Growth is inevitable so why not embrace feedback to keep growing and making that personal and academical change.
I am a big fan of feedback and appreciate when I have the opportunity to be observed by another educator or leader. The experience often helps me to consider an idea or approach that I didn’t think of by myself. It is important for us to engage in relationships like this in our work!
This helped me realize the importance of seeking help when you don’t know the answer.
I have always been very fearful when it comes to asking for help. I always think they will think I am very stupid. And it’s my mistake. I have had to learn little by little to ask for help and stop my bad thoughts. Everyone is in a learning process.
Asking questions can only help. What you do not ask you do not know. I was always the one in the class that would stop the class and ask the question if I did not understand something in class. People would come up to me after class and say " thank you for asking that question in class".My grandmother always says " closed mouths don’t get fed". By saying something you can receive the help you need and help others. If you do not get the answers then go and search for it. If you look for it you will find it or find someone or something that will lead you to it. Even if you do not get the help from people continue to look and go after what it is that you need. It will come to you.
self reflecting on global phenomenon and its relation to oneself is motivation in itself to avoid complacency in ones thinking.
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El resultado del éxito es no rendirse y seguir intentándolo sin importar que, a veces te puedes encontrar en una situación difícil de confrontar. Sin embargo no quiere decir que te tengas que dar por vencido o que eches todo tu trabajo y recorrido a la basura, tienes que levantarte con mas fuerza
En conclusión, si eres de mente y espíritu débil, no vas a llegara ningún lado
es una lastima ver que en vez de disfrutar el tiempo invertido en el estudio o en la escuela lo veamos como algo aburrido en vez de darnos emoción
It’s okay if you are wrong, but keep on exploring the topic, and hearing from the others, will help you improve it little by little.
I was surprised watching the student’s questions and activities about the Hudson River. They only show not only awe when asking questions, but also they responded with wonderment to all the information, vocabulary, and solutions to the problem.
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