1. Creating Cultures of Thinking
CD 446
Fall 2016

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

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

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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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

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