Creating Cultures of Thinking CD 446 Fall 2016

Check In Read Schunk Ch. 3 and CC Ch. 4 Creating culture of thinking Concept discussion

The Forces that Shape Culture Expectations Language Time Modeling Opportunities Routines Interactions Environment

Expectation Setting goals and putting effort to achieve the goals Internal compass that moves us toward our goal

Focusing on the learning vs. the work Teaching for understanding vs. knowledge Encouraging deep vs. surface learning strategies Promoting independence vs. dependence Developing a growth vs. a fixed mindset

Surface Learner vs. Deep Learner Quality Deep Learner Inattentive to why content might be important or how it might connect to what s/he already knows Personal connection to content Consciously relates course material to past experiences, current understandings, and personal interests Sees course material as disconnected bits of knowledge—that is, as impersonal facts to be memorized or skills to perform View of content Seeks to integrate knowledge, looking for patterns, connections, generalizations, and underlying principles—within and across disciplines Has no agency and regards facts and procedures as fixed-ceding authority to a teacher, textbook, or other external source Attitude toward authority Is open to new ideas, but willing to engage in critical exchanges with external authorities when incoherences or inconsistencies arise. Memorizes and performs without reflection on purposes of and strategies for learning Self-awareness as a learner Is aware of her or his own understandings and able to reflect on her or his own processes of learning

Language Language of thinking Language of community Language of identity Language of initiative Language of mindfulness Language of praise and feedback Language of listening

Time “Containers” of quantitative and qualitative dimensions Allocation of time: Priority and values “Big rocks” experiment Managing energy not time: Stephen Covey time management matrix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_N_uvq41Pg

Exercise List all the major activities you engaged in over the course of a day Mark each item in one of three ways