1. Developing Self Directing Learners with Graham Watts, Associate Director, Institute for the Habits of Mind grahamwatts@habitsofmind.co.uk

2. What is it about your students that makes you think they need to learn how to think? What do you see them doing? What do you hear them saying? How are they feeling?

3. Column 1: What is it about your students that makes you think they need to learn how to learn? Fold a blank sheet of paper into three columns

4. Column 1: What is it about your students that makes you think they need to learn how to learn? Column 2: ‘HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THEM TO BE?’ Fold a blank sheet of paper into three columns

5. 16 Habits of Mind (Costa & Kallick 2000)‏ 1. Persisting 2. Thinking & communicating with clarity & precision 6. Managing impulsivity 3. Gathering data through all senses 4. Creating, imagining, innovating 5. Responding with wonderment & awe 7. Listening with understanding and empathy www.habitsofmind.co.uk 8. Thinking flexibly

6. 10.Taking responsible risks 15.Applying past knowledge to new situations 11.Striving for accuracy 12.Finding humour 14.Thinking interdependently 13.Questioning and posing problems 9. Thinking about thinking (metacognition)‏ www.habitsofmind.co.uk 16. Remaining open to continuous learning 16 Habits of Mind (continued)‏

7. Which Habit of Mind? An icon, image, picture A poem, jingle, quote or rap List famous people who exemplify this Habit. A definition in your own words

8. Column 1: What is it about your students that makes you think they need to learn how to learn? Column 2: ‘HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THEM TO BE?’ Column 3: Find similarities between your Column 2 ideas and the Habits of Mind. Fold a blank sheet of paper into three columns

9. Sharing the Vision www.habitsofmind.co.uk

10. FROM: Not only knowing the right answers Curriculum Mind Shifts TO: Also knowing how to behave when answers are not immediately apparent. www.habitsofmind.co.uk

11. grahamcwatts@habitsofmind.co.uk