What is funnier – a circle or a star?

Which is louder – a wink or a smile?

What is heavier – night or day?

South Molton Community College

STAFF TWILIGHT

Thursday, January 15 th 2009

“Habits Of Mind”

“HABITS OF MIND”

How many can you name?

o By yourselfo In pairso As a table

WHY “HABITS OF MIND”?

Mission Statement

“To Develop Responsible

and Independent Learners for the

21 st Century”

WIFM# Better exam results# Better behaviour# Dialogue of learning# Whole school emphasis on learning# Involve parents# Umbrella for PLTS, SEAL, citizenship etc

WHAT IS A SOUTH MOLTON LEARNER LIKE?

What do we see them doing?

What do we hear them saying?

What are they feeling?

WHAT DO WEWANT A

SOUTH MOLTON LEARNER

TO BE LIKE?

What do we want to see them doing?

What do we want to hear them saying?

What do we want them to feel?

“Twenty-first Century Tools for Twenty-first Century Learners”

3000?

It is estimated that today’slearners will have 10-14 jobs

By the age of 38

The top 10 in demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist – using technologies that have not yet been invented – in order to solve problems wedon’t know are problems yet

We must get away from the idea:“Forget the outside world, we’regoing to teach things we’ve always taught and forget what’s goingon out there”

Outstanding OFSTED again?

“If you always do what youalways did – you’ll alwaysget what you always got”

PLTS

QCA FRAMEWORK

HABITS OF MIND

THINKING TOOLS

PLTS AT SMCCBIG PICTURE

Independent EnquirersCreative ThinkersReflective LearnersTeam WorkersSelf-managersEffective Participators

QCA Awakens!

Check your schemes!

INTRODUCE

EMBED

SPREAD

‘Habits of Mind’ –

“What I do when I don’t know the answer” (Student – St Cuthbert’s College, New Zealand)

What ‘Habits of Mind’ aredemonstrated in these short films?

“A habit of mind is a pattern ofinnate behaviour that leads toproductive actions”

Study the famouscharacters on the picture sheet.What habits ofmind did/do thesepeople demonstrate?

Choose some more examples ofpeople you admire

HABITS OF MIND & THE QCA FRAMEWORK

-Can you fit the 16 ‘Habits of Mind’ to the QCA Framework?

HABITS OF MINDDIAMOND NINE

Excellent communicatorStrategic thinkerWork with stakeholdersInnovativeReflective

Leadership skillsCreative mindWillingness to take risksCommunication skills

VisionInspire othersInterpersonal skillsOptomisticResilientCreative

What 3 ‘Habits of Mind’ do youbest relate to?

What 3 ‘Habits of Mind’ do youfind most difficult?

Complete the ‘Habitsof Mind’ self assessment

HABITS OF MIND AND YOU

Within your own subject area,which 3 ‘Habits of Mind’ areyour students good at?

Which 3 ‘Habits of Mind’do you feel they needto improve?

HABITS OF MIND AND YOUR SUBJECT AREA

Think big and start!!

Making ‘Habits of Mind’explicit in lessons

HABITS OF MIND AND SMCC

‘Habits of Mind’ learning walk

Making ‘Habits of Mind’ Explicit

A Single Lesson and Habits of Mind

What ‘Habits of Mind’ could we make explicit in a lesson of work like this?

eg What could we discuss in the debrief?

HABITS OF MIND AND SMCC

HOW CAN WE INTRODUCE‘HABITS OF MIND’ ATSMCC?

Whole school In lessons

- Shift existing system behind the Habits of Mind- Make them explicit!

“Habit is like a cable, weWeave a thread of it each day,And at last we cannot break it”(Horace Mann)

THE SMCC LASER

• Avoid pockets of development

• We must focus our efforts like the coherent light of a laser

• We must ‘walk the walk as well as talk the talk’

HABITS OF MIND AND SMCC

Making ‘Habits of Mind’ Explicit

Earthquakes and Personal Skills

• How good a listener are you?• How good a reader are you?• How good a speaker are you?• How good a writer are you?• How observant are you?• How well can you present yourself?

Making ‘Habits of Mind’ Explicit

Earthquakes and Habits of Mind

What ‘Habits of Mind’ could we make explicit in a unit of worklike this?

eg “Through your work, I am looking for evidence of ... “

eg Peer assessment sheet to rate persistence: 0 1 2 3 4 5

TRIOS

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Share practiceSTAFFJune 29th

Work in progress1 LESSONJUNE 1st

IntroductionTWILIGHTApril 28th

SUMMER TERM

Share practiceSTAFFMarch 30th

Work in progress1 LESSONMarch 2nd

IntroductionTWILIGHTJanuary 15th

SPRING TERM

TRIOS TIMETABLE

TRIOS

How can we introduce ‘Habits of Mind’ as a whole school approach? Focus on 1 ‘Habit’ using the resource sheets availableChoose section(s) of your scheme of work and identify where you can make ‘Habits of Mind’ explicit. How will you do this?

Consider areas to be a focus for future trios work

Choose 1 unit and all HOM?Choose 3 HOM in all units?

What does it sound like?

What does it look like?

What does it feel like?

When is itimportant?

Where is itimportant?

What does itmean to you?

How could you help students develop

this habit?

How would you introduce this HOM

into a lesson?

Song, picture, person, film clip

Slogan

Simile

HABIT OF MIND: ____________

ASSESSMENT???

ASDAN

Years 8&9 – 2 and a half D/E grades

Years 10&11 – 2 and a quarter Bgrades

Portfolios?

WHERE NEXT?

TRIOS WORK NING - http://learningjourney.ning.com DEVELOP ‘THINKING TOOLS’

CONTINUE TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE OF HABITS THE WIDER COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT

“We ourselves have to firstbecome that which we want others to be”

(Paul Marshall)

Are your lessonsworth behaving for?

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