Habitudes for the 21 st Century and Beyond

1. Habitudes for the 21st Century and Beyond CCSA March 2014

2. Driving Question What is success?

3. Card Groups • #1 (Legislator) • #2 (Parent) • #3 (Student) • #4 (Business leader)

4. Hard Facts on Soft Skills

5. Habitudes Defined Habits + Attitudes that show a new mindset and way of thinking.

6. Imagination • Curiosity • Self-awareness • Adaptability • Courage • Perseverance • Passion

7. Imagination • Curiosity • Self-awareness • Adaptability • Courage • Perseverance • Passion

8. John Hattie’s Research • 800+ meta-analyses • 50,000 studies • 200+ million students Student-Teacher Relationship = .72

9. Understanding Effect Size • Under 0.00 = negative effect • 0.00 - 0.20 = marginal effect • 0.20 – 0.40 = positive effect • 0.40 - 0.60 = substantial effect • 0.60 – 2.00 = enormous effect

10. A classroom environment that fosters respect is one where students take risks, are engaged and feel they are taken seriously. This matters.

11. Self-Assessment “Can’t teach what you don’t know. Can’t lead where you don’t go.”

12. Self-Assessment Results

13. Imagination "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein

14. Imagination Imagination is the foundation for all thinking. Pose a problem. Pose a question.

15. Card Groups • Never Quit • Hope • Success • Hero

16. Relationship? What do you see as the relationship between imagination and students living in poverty?

17. Consider Our capacity to dream, hope and plan for the future is impacted by our understanding of our imagination. -Angela Maiers

18. How Do We Teach Imagination • Focus on problem/solution (mind mapping). • Encourage strategic planning and goal setting. • Use resources (such as Odyssey of the Mind materials) to stimulate thinking. • Model for students: Teachers as Practitioners • “Imaginative students need imaginative teachers.” How to Grow the Good in Your Brain

19. Curiosity

22. Curiosity Matters

23. Curiosity Matters • Keeps the brain active and awake • Keeps the brain ready for new ideas • Creates suspense and “hooks” students and encourages questions. • Strengthens the brain • Teaches delayed gratification

24. How Do We Teach Curiosity • Encourage and embrace questions • Ask provocative questions • Build curiosity even with ‘boring’ topics (example: rocks) • Build questioning tools

25. Questioning • Ask genius questions (Q-cards). • Don’t squelch the WHY. • Curious learners are happy learners. What is the role of curiosity in your classroom? Are you curious about your card?

26. Perseverance The ability to sustain interest, effort and commitment in any circumstance that life presents.

27. What is Required • Patience • Self-awareness • GRIT • Reflection • Plan, Follow-Through, Adjust “Some assembly required”

28. Mathematical Practices

29. Mathematical Practices

30. GRIT video

31. Teaching Perseverance “We form our habits and then our habits form us.” -Ron Gilbert

32. Teaching Perseverance “We form our habits and then our habits form us.” -Ron Gilbert

33. Teaching Perseverance • Interview people with strong habits • Look at famous people who have persevered • Discuss how failure is the real teacher

34. Adaptability The ability to cope with change, to recognize its positive and negative aspects, and to manage one’s actions to address the change.

35. The Challenge

36. Think Outside the Box

37. Duncker’s Candle

38. Duncker’s Candle Solution

39. Shifts

40. Teaching Adaptability • Nurture ideas. (Let’s try it…) • Turn “Yes, but…” into “Yes, how…” • Encourage problem solving. • Recognize that failures can be opportunities. • Encourage calculated risk. • Pose complex, multi-step problems.

41. In the Workplace

42. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” -Alvin Toffler

43. Driving Question What is success?

44. Creating Success Where are these habitudes present or not present in your school? In your system? In yourself?