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Habits

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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16 Habits of Mind
Thinking about your Thinking...

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Thinking about your thinking means reflection.

Reflection means looking back at the past. And evaluating asking yourself what did I do well and what did I not do well?
That equals change.

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Example: Getting my physical science grade up.
Describe: went to go talk to Mrs.Silovsky👉

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Thinking strategies: exploring a variety of options, asking yourself questions.
Outcome: got the grade up by getting A's on assignments and studying.

Continuous learning

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Learning goal: how to draw better.
3 things to practice: 1. Draw more often. 2.Start out slow. 3. Fix it until it's right.

PERSISTENCE

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Persistence...
Being persistent is continuing to do something even though it is difficult.

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Example: in 1919 Walt Disney was fired from his job. His editor said he lacked imagination and had no good ideas. And today Walt Disney has two parks named after him.

THINKING FLEXIBLY

Flexible means easily changed or able to change or do different things.

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FINDING HUMOR

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There are different types of humor. Negative humor is one of them. Negative humor is humor used in a mean way like making fun of someone.

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Humor can be used in different ways. It can be helpful and it can be really mean.

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Example: a kid just tripped and people are laughing at him, but it's not so funny to the kid who tripped.

STRIVING FOR ACCURACY

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Accuracy means doing something without making any mistakes.

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My moment of inaccuracy was when I was in math and I calculated something wrong in the problem and it made the the whole thing wrong.

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My moment of accuracy was in science class when I calculated my GUESS problem right.

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USING EMPATHY

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Empathy is the ability to share someone else's feelings.

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Ex: I have used empathy in my life when my best friends grandma died. I went to her grandmas funeral and sat with her until it was over.