Presentation on 3CSN's Community of Practice, Habits of Mind, by Jan Connal, Counselor, Fullerton College; 3CSN Habits of Mind Coordinator and Roza Ekimyan, Couselor, Pierce College; 3CSN L.A. Regional Coordinator at the 2nD Annual LACCD AtD Retreat.

1. Habits of Mind
Achieving the Dream Summit
March 22, 2013
Jan Connal, Ph.D
Roza Ekimyan, Ed.D

2. Today’s Outcomes
• Understand the importance of Habits of Mind
for classrooms, services and campus
• Identify what Habits of Mind strategies look
like in for classrooms, services and campus
• Consider implications for the classroom,
service areas and campus wide.

3. Habits of Mind
“Habits of Mind are Education is about
the characteristics of changing minds.
what intelligent
people do when they At its most basic level it is
are confronted with about confronting and
problems, the changing habits of mind.
resolutions of which
are not immediately
apparent.”
Costa

4. Why are Habits of Mind
Important in College?
It is not enough that we provide
• It is not enough that we
information; we want learners to
teach skills; we want
know what to do with that
information.to know when to
learners
exercise those skills.

5. Mindset Matters
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Each person has a fixed Intelligence is a potential
amount of intelligence. that can be realized
through learning.
– Can cause students to
view challenges – Can help students see
threatening challenges as roads to
gaining intelligence
– Can cause students to
see mistakes as failures – Can help students
and demoralizing. develop constructive
reactions to setbacks or
mistakes

6. Carol Dweck

7. Angela Duckworth
“To help chronically low-performing but
intelligent students, educators and parents must
first recognize that character is at least as
important as intellect.”
To succeed, you need GRIT

8. Angela Duckworth

10. Where do students struggle
the most?
• Choose one Habit of Mind you see
students struggling with the most in
classrooms, services or on campus.
• Describe what that looks like – how do
you know the student has not yet
developed the habit of mind?

11. You are MOVING & SHARING…
Sit with 2-4 other
people who identified
the same Habit of
Mind as an area of
concern.

12. What HoM looks like in a Classroom
Habit of Mind: Classroom Strategy:
Metacognition Self-regulated Learning
(Thinking about
your thinking) • Forethought and Planning
• Performance Monitoring
• Reflection on Performance

15. What HoM looks like in a Service Area
• Habit of Mind: Counseling Services:
Student Educational Plan
• Thinking Flexibly •Planning on completion
(Certificate, AA, Transfer)
•Understanding the course
units to be completed.
(Major, general ed., pre-
requisites and electives)

16. Student Education Plan
Name: ______________________________ GE Area Course Units Pre-
ID# : ________________________________ & requisite
Number
Name of Transfer University _____________
and for AA Degree __________________
Total Units Required for Transfer or AA
Degree_______________
Part 1:
TOTAL
List all of the General Education and Major required GE Units
courses for transfer for the AA Degree – even if
you already completed.
*Class can be used to meet 2 requirements

17. Student Education Plan
Part II: Prerequisite Courses
Write your placement score or highest class completed with a C or better for:
Math ___________________________ English ___________________________________
Prerequisites Courses Sequence Needed:
Prerequisite Prerequisite TARGET Course
English _____________________ ___________________ _______________________
Math ______________________ ___________________ _______________________
Other ______________________ ____________________ _______________________
Other _____________________ ___________________ ______________________

18. Student Education Plan
Current Semester GE Major Pre-req Elective
Part III: Semester/Session Plan
List courses and the units for the current semester Course Unit
and each of the next 2 semesters or sessions.
Check the box(es) to indicate if the courses is
Gen Ed. Major, Prerequisite or Elective – it could
be more than one.

19. What HoM looks like across Campus
Habit of Mind:
Persistence
• Campus-wide messages
• Outreach & mentoring
• Resources
• Professional development
• Counseling & coaching
• Academic support
• Student activities
• Scholarships & recognition
• Outcomes assessment

21. Persistence

22. Consider the Implications
What are the implications for your
campus ?
What department, program, course or
person could you connect with to help
build students’ Habits of Mind?