Growing a Learning Culture Habits of Mind – The NZ Way Andy Kai Fong Lincoln High School Christchurch aka@lincoln.schoo

1. Growing a Learning CultureHabits of Mind – The NZ WayAndy Kai FongLincoln High School Christchurchaka@lincoln.school.nzwww.lincoln.school.nz/interlinc/

2. Key Points • Value of shared understandings • Changing approach to Habits of Mind • Framework for Learning • Tools and Strategies

3. Powerful Collaboration Learning Teams Why School? Team Learning Shared Understandings …with students Personal professional development …with parents Shared Vision

5. 2002 Professional Learning Group (PLG) 2003 PLG 2 Assessment Learning Group Learning Area Teams Class Learning Teams 2004 PLG 3 Action Learning Teams Leadership Forum senior HOD’s Class Learning Teams 4 classes at Yr 9 Focused Study Teams structured readings Assessment Learning Team (core HOD’s) Team Learning

6. Habits of Mind- a changing approach • from explicit instruction with common approach….. • …to “caught not taught” with common approach

7. Shared Vision and Why School? Tools and Strategies Framework for Learning Shared Understandings / Team Learning Habits of Mind

8. Tools and Strategies • Questioning and Problem Solving • Thinking Flexibly • Metacognition

9. Questioning & Problem Solving • 3 Storey Intellect • Question (Q-) Matrix

10. 3 Storey Intellect “There are one-storey, two-storey and three-storey intellects with skylights. All fact collectors who have no aim beyond their facts are one-storey people. Two storey people compare, reason, generalise, using the labour of fact collectors as their own. Three-storey people idealise, imagine, predict – their best illumination comes from above the skylight.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

11. Three Storey Intellect Applying Use the ideas, solve problems or make decisions. Apply new knowledge and understanding to new situations Manipulate the information Make connections to prior knowledge and previous experience Develop concepts Processing Gathering Find the facts Understand the material

12. Three Storey Intellect Applying imagine, predict, speculate apply, evaluate Processing compare / contrast, explain why, reason, classify, interpret, analyse Gathering count, match, select, recite, define, identify

13. Applications of 3 Storey Intellect • Unit / Lesson Plans • any subject • scaffolding learning and thinking together • Information Literacy Model • structure for research model • Formulating questions / assessment criteria • illustrates thinking required to answer simple vs hard questions • Subject specific • Maths (GSA)

15. Thinking Flexibly • Compare and Contrast • Thinking Maps®

16. Compare & Contrast • Visual Tool designed to help students structure their thinking on a given task ie finding similarities and differences. Applications • novel / short story / cd

17. Metacognition • Thinking about one’s thinking • Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating ones thinking

18. “learning occurs most readily and most effectively when whole brain processing is engaged, and in particular when the process of learning moves from experience to reflection on experience…” - Julia Atkin

19. Student Reflection • I drew this picture because I found it difficult to concentrate and get stuff written down • It is like smelling a rose without a nose: learning without concentrating

20. …student reflections • “….next term I will focus on my listening skills as they need to be improved.”

21. “ I picked up some things but not others, like a magpie”