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Magic?

What happened first ?

Then what did you all do?

Then what you changed to accomplish the task?

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My Development

BeliefsBeliefs

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Habits of Mind?Lets have a experience of

How do HOM operate?

How do we develop HOM?

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The objective of this exercise is to:

Understand other’s point of view

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Strategizing Learning

• How can I ensure that I start valuing other’s point of view? What different attitudes can I adopt here?

• What are the many ways in which I can listen to others, encourage others to share more?

• What are the kind of questions I can ask to get to know other’s point of view?

• If somebody asks me a question, how in many ways, I can get back to understanding their question and their thoughts behind their question?

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Habits of Mind

1.Aware

2.Understand

3.Strategize

4.Become Habit

Punctuality is coming on time

I (want to) come on time because I like to respect others

I will plan to start early

I come on time

What

Why

How

My Habit

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Three Habits of Mind

Think of three habits which you would like to

see in a child, habits that would help the child be

successful/effective in life

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Habits of Mind

How important are these habits for success or being effective in life: More imp than academics

or equally imp or less imp?

If more or equally important – then how are we ensuring that

these get developed in the child

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Habits of Mind

We are what we

repeatedly do.

Excellence then is not an

act but a habit."

- Aristotle

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The Habits of Mind

habits of mind

DevelopConsciously

Use realor set up

Experiences

Reflect Affirm &Celebrate

AwareUnderstandStrategy

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The Habits of Mind

DevelopConsciously

Set U p Exper i ences

R efl ect and Develop strategies

A ffi rm &Celebrate

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Is this is a good news ?

Child while working on something gets agitated when he/she is not able to do it and leaves the activity in the middle saying ‘I don’t want to do it’ or ‘I cannot do it’.

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Experiences1. Opportunities

• in every problem see opportunity

• to do this work which HOM is required to fulfill intentions

2. Experiences• Explore the many facets of a HOM

• ask in how many ways do we use this HOM

3. Activities• Make the child use the HOM in some way

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Lets do this

Keep a pencil in between your toes and write a sentence.

Choose one band before you start

PINK ( If you are sure you can do it)

Blue (You are not sure if you can do it)

Green (You are sure you cannot do it)

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Rotation

1. How are you feeling about yourself?Choose any one word that comes closest to what you are feeling.

2. How much did you persevere? Rate your perseverance out of 10.

• Excited• Frustrated• Amused• Embarrassed• Irritated• Funny

10

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Help me in my design

• Make a design out of outline of five circles – could be a flag for yourself, a design for your t-shirt, curtain, a rocket – anything.

• Now each of these five circles need to be “filled” by somebody other than you. They can fill however they want.

• When filling for somebody else – explore different textures, patters, styles, motifs etc.

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How was your interaction?

• Give a Pink band if it was Creative (left hand)

• Give a Blue band if it was done with Responsibility (left hand)

• Give a Green band if the person was receptive and listening to your ideas(left hand)

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The Habits of Mind

DevelopConsciously

Set U p Exper i ences

R efl ect and Develop strategies

A ffi rm &Celebrate

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• The activities they do are not

important – how they do it is important.

• Their emotions are their experiences –

do not assuage them – but encourage

them to find their own ways to deal with

it.

•Their analysis is their understanding –

so don’t do it for them (as don’t give

gyan) rather facilitate it by lending an

active ear.

Habits of Mind

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Reflective Questioning

• Open / Thinking Questions

• Use what & how

• Use Invitations

• Keep questions plural

• Use HOM & TS terminology

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Four stepsWhich in some cases happen

automatically, but in many cases need

conscious development