Staff Development Term This is an outline of what we will cover this term. Hopefully we will also incorporate some of the web2.0 and thinking tools as we go. Week 1 Wikis, blogs etc Digital images policy Week 5 Habits of Mind Supple Week 2 Developing quality learning and powerful teaching strategies – an overview The relationship of thinking skills and strategies & the new curriculum Week 6 Habits of Mind Exact Week 3 Habits of Mind The success model Week 4 Habits of Mind Understanding

Habits of Mind part 1 “ the habits of mind describe the kinds of ‘thinking habits’ we need to have in order to be as successful as possible at solving problems” The Key Competencies: Managing self, Relating to others, Participating & contributing, Thinking, Using language, symbols & texts

16 Habits!!! How do I get to know them, understand them and apply them??? How often do you choose to behave intelligently? How often do your children behave intelligently? I’ve got 4 reading groups, 3 maths groups, Billy’s mum’s worried that he’s not eating his lunch, the kids need more fitness, Mum’s off to hospital next week, Mary’s got netball practise on Thursday and the game on Tuesday. What are we having for dinner? And there’s still the dog to take for a walk.

PERSISTANCE Successful people don’t give up easily. If it doesn’t work one way they try another. Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman

MANAGING IMPULSIVITY "....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley cup. Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence (1995) p. 83 Successful people think before they act. They make a plan before solving a problem.

TAKING RESPONSIBLE RISKS There has been a calculated risk in every stage of American development--the pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, dreamers who were not afraid of action. Brooks Atkinson Successful people aren’t afraid of learning new things. They want to have a go even if they might fail.

In the ‘looks like’ area brainstorm & record everything you would expect to see happening in a school/class where ____________ was encouraged. In the ‘sounds like’ area brainstorm & record everything you would expect to hear happening in a school/class where ____________ was encouraged. In the ‘feels like’ area brainstorm & record everything you would feel happening in a school/class where ____________ was encouraged.

Follow up: At the next staff meeting be ready to share an example of how you try/have tried to foster one of the control habits in your classroom this term. to use a Y chart in your classroom For information about NZ people try