We are proud that the staff at St Joseph’s have committed themselves to employing and understanding the Habits of Mind.
#Persisting habits of mind how to#
It is our responsibility to teach children HOW to learn as well as WHAT to learn. We fell in love with the Habits of Mind and it just made total sense to be teaching children these dispositions of how to think and learn. We were convinced from that visit that we wanted to try and emulate the efforts of Ross in our own school. We had never seen learning more purposeful than what we saw at College St. The Habits of Mind were visible and you could hear the language in every classroom. You could feel the essence of learning in everything they did. The Habits of Mind were really lived by the staff and students.
We saw a dynamic place that made a huge impression. In 2006, members of the St Joseph’s staff had the privilege of visiting several schools in New Zealand where we came across College St Normal School in Palmerston North under the leadership of Ross Kennedy and Trudy Francis. When the Habits of Mind are coached positively and aesthetically into the everyday curriculum structures of a school, then one really appreciates the value of the Habits of Mind. The trouble is that the Habits of Mind are not known and articulated by everyone. Most parents want the type of qualities or dispositions for their children that the Habits of Mind offer. Luckily we are all different but if you were to look closely at the values based education that the government promotes and the ethos of Catholic Education, you would soon identify qualities of the Habits of Mind. One could ask, “well if the Habits of Mind are so good, why doesn’t everybody know about them and why aren’t they taught in all schools?”
It means having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known.ĭeveloped by Art Costa and Bena Kallick, employing Habits of Mind require drawing forth certain patterns of intellectual behaviour that produce powerful results. Habits of Mind is knowing how to behave intelligently when you DON’T know the answer.
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