This document outlines various habits of mind including persevering to completion, managing impulsivity thoughtfully, and listening with understanding and empathy. Other habits discussed are thinking flexibly by considering alternatives, metacognition or thinking about one's thinking, striving for accuracy, questioning and problem posing to develop needed data, and applying past knowledge to new situations. The document advocates thinking and communicating with clarity, gathering data through all senses, creating and innovating, responding with wonderment and awe, taking responsible risks, finding humor, thinking interdependently, and remaining open to continuous learning.
2. Persevering in task through to completion. Looking for ways to reach your goal when stuck. Not giving up.Persisting
3. Take your time! Thinking before acting; remaining calm, thoughtful, and deliberate.Managing Impulsivity
4. Understanding others! Devoting mental energy to another person¡¯s thoughts and ideas. Make an effort to perceive another¡¯s point of view and emotions.Listening with understanding and empathy
5. Look at it another way! Being able to change perspectives, generate alternatives, and consider other options.Thinking Flexibily
6. Know your knowing! Be aware of you own thoughts, strategies, feelings, and other actions and their effects on others.Metacognition (Thinking about your thinking)
7. Check it again! Always doing your best. Setting high standards. Checking and finding ways to improve constantly.Striving for Accuracy
8. How do you know? Having a questioning attitude; knowing what data are needed and developing questioning strategies to produce those data. Finding problems to solve.Questioning and problem posing
9. Use what you learn! Accessing prior knowledge beyond the situation in which it was learned.Applying past knowledge to new situations
10. Be clear! Striving for accurate communication in both written and oral form; avoiding over generalizations, distortions, deletions, and exaggerations. Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision
11. Use your natural pathways! Pay attention to the world around you. Gather data through all the senses; taste, touch, smell, hearing, and sight.Gather data through all senses
12. Try a different way! Generating new and novel ideas, fluency, and originality. Creating, imagining, innovating
13. Have fun figuring out! Finding the world awesome, mysterious, and being intrigued with phenomena and beauty.Responding with wonderment and awe
14. Venture out! Being adventuresome; living on the edge of one¡¯s competence. Try new things constantly.Taking responsible risks
15. Laugh a little! Finding the whimsical, incongruous and unexpected. Being able to laugh at oneself.Finding Humor
16. Work together! Being able to work in and learn from others in reciprocal situations. Team work.Thinking Interdependently
17. I have so much more to learn! Having humility and pride when admitting we don¡¯t know; resisting complacency.Remaining open to continuous learning