1. Presentation By Allison Axness 5 Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner Presentation By Allison Axness

4. 5 Minds: The Disciplined Mind The Synthesizing Mind The Creative Mind The Respectful Mind The Ethical Mind

5. A Disciplined Mind

6. Schooled in basic subjects like art, history... and master of one

7. Challenging to Learn

8. All disciplines have their own ways of investigating ideas.

10. Discipline also means the need to practice to improve performance.

12. The Synthesizing Mind

13. Able to make sense of disparate information

14. The ability to synthesize ideas is a vital future skill - a skill basic to innovative leadership. The ability to synthesize ideas is a vital future skill - a skill basic to innovative leadership.

16. A synthesizing mind, one that searches for connections, is required to take advantage of teams made up of different specialists.

18. The Creative Mind

20. Encouraging a creative bent of mind is a most important future trait of teachers.

21. Encouraging a creative bent of mind is a most important future trait of teachers.

22. “ Recognizing, nurturing and amplifying students diverse talents will underpin successful future schools” (Gardner, p. 94).

24. The Respectful Mind

25. A mind that recognizes differences between individuals, groups and cultures; one that learns to appreciate a sense of‘others’ (Gardner, 2006).

28. Differences need to be respected and the earlier this is achieved the better.

30. The Ethical Mind

31. Considers how students can serve purposes beyond self interest.

32. This mind takes into account the 'common good' of the wider community particularly under challenging situations or dilemmas (Gardner, p.142).

33. The development of shared beliefs are important to achieve this mind and projects that involve providing a service to others.