Headteacher, Bernadette Hancock describes how thinking maps have been used at her Cardiff school in all curriculum areas, helping children to become more fluent in developing key communication skills.
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Art Costa, who developed Habits of Mind said:
"Habits of Mind are the characteristics of what intelligent people do when they are confronted with problems, the resolutions of which are not immediately apparent."
They are a composite of many skills, attitudes and proclivities including:
- Value: Choosing to employ a pattern of intellectual behaviors rather than other, less productive patterns.
- Inclination: Feeling the tendency toward employing a pattern of intellectual behaviours.
- Sensitivity: Perceiving opportunities for, and appropriateness of employing the pattern of behaviour.
- Capability: Possessing the basic skills and capacities to carry through with the behaviours.
- Commitment: Constantly striving to reflect on and improve performance of the pattern of intellectual behaviour.
- There are 16 Habits of Mind:
- Persistence
- Managing impulsivity
- Listening to others - with understanding and empathy
- Thinking flexibly
- Thinking about our thinking - metacognition
- Striving for accuracy and precision
- Questioning and posing problems
- Applying past knowledge to new situations
- Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision
- Gathering data though all senses
- Creating, imagining and innovating
- Responding with wonderment and awe
- Taking responsible risks
- Finding humour
- Thinking interdependently
- Learning continuously