
Here’s a rundown of Kallick and Costa’s 16 Habits of Mind – sixteen modes of thinking You’ve got a launchpad for 16 weeks, right here. Learning to your classroom once or twice per week, but aren’t sure where to start,


If you’re looking to bring in Social-Emotional On the grandest scale, wholeĬurriculums are organized by this framework, and on a smaller scale, you can wrap To integrate it into a learning segment later this week. They’re broken up into bite-sized pieces, you can choose your favorite today and try These habits are digestible, grounded, and easily applicable to the classroom. So why start with the 16 Habits of Mind to help you get there? – as they say – and to use the study of generations to make it tight, to bring it To carve it into something specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely Knowing these theories in and out allows you to apply them to that big idea you have, That needs space, time, trust, and real, enduring learning to get off the ground. Yet, that big lesson that they hope to pull off on some day during the year. Teachers fall asleep thinking about the next day’s lesson. Ideas for Big, Hopeful LessonsĪ lot of people fall asleep at night thinking about their hopes or their worries –īut not teachers. Unique ways that you feel will work for you and will work for your students. Rather, it’s in understanding these theories that you can apply them in creative,

Of the old ‘playbooks’ – that wouldn’t be much fun or true to who you are as a teacher. These theories isn’t meant to make any educator feel like they need to follow all Teaching, while putting their own, individual touch on everything. Principles allows any educator to make research-backed decisions while planning and This list is not exhaustive, by any means, but a lasting understanding of these core Spiral Curriculum, Bell Hooks’ Teaching to Transgress, Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximalĭevelopment, Maria Montisorri’s methods, and, here today, Kallick and Costa’s 16 Habits On the ‘must discuss’ list areīloom’s Taxonomy, Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, Friere’s Critical Pedagogy, Bruner’s This post is a kick-off to a new series, Ways to Think about Learning, where we’ll explore some foundational theories about how people learn that have shaped education.
