Habits of Mind

"Problem-based learning and project-based learning provide a rich opportunity for students to deepen their knowledge, expand their repertoire of technical skills, and enhance their appreciation of thinking tools, processes, and strategies.

It is not enough, however, to understand concepts and principles and to solve that one problem, as challenging as it might be. The essential outcome is to develop and expand the dispositions of skillful problem solvers who can apply their learning to an ever-expanding array of challenges not only in commonly taught subjects in school, but also in their communities, in their world and in their lives.

While we are interested in how many answers individuals know, we are even more interested in how they behave when they don’t know—when they are confronted with life’s problems the answers to which are not immediately known. The larger goal is for enhanced performance under challenging conditions that demand strategic reasoning, insightfulness, perseverance, creativity, and craftsmanship to resolve complex problems.

Achieving this vision requires the internalization of certain dispositions, propensities or Habits of Mind "

In our previous Technology and Innovation Class, Dr Nurulhuda teaches us about the Thinking- Based Learning.  But for this entry, I would like to discuss about HoM or Habits of Mind.

Other than this Techno and Innovation Class, I also meet with this HoM in the Assessment Class. So what 's about it? I would like to dig more and learn what is HoM.

Habits of Mind is knowing how to behave intelligently when you DON'T know the answer. It means having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known: dichotomies, dilemmas, enigmas and uncertainties.

Reflection:
When implementing the Prob-BL and Project-BL, teacher will aware that their students are experiencing HoM. Students who seems as lack in initiative will gradually shifted to become more active and inquire learning as the teacher change their behaviour by certain techniques as applying the correct rubrics. In the next entry; I would like to share how rubrics.

(The 21st century learning is not as easy as A,B,C when it comes to behavioral and habits disposition.. even for the all-girls school, and the best class, it is challenging for the teacher to cater with student whose afraid of changing and weak in basic knowledge so didn't want to open up and take the challenge)