Arthur is co-director of the Institute for Intelligent Behaviour. He is Emeritus Professor, School of Education, California State University, Sacramento, where he taught graduate courses to teachers and administrators in curriculum, supervision, and the improvement of instruction.
Dr Costa has made presentations and conducted workshops for educators throughout the United States and in Canada, Mexico, Central America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and the South Pacific.
Active in many professional organisations, Dr Costa served as president of the California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and as president of the national A.S.C.D. from 1988 to 1989.
Habits of Mind
Noted educators, Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick, define and describe 16 types of intelligent behavior in their four book series, Habits of Mind: A Developmental Series, published in 2000 by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development in Alexandria, VA. The series includes:
Book I: Discovering and Exploring Habits of Mind
Book II: Activating and Engaging Habits of Mind
Book III: Assessing and Reporting on Habits of Mind
Book IV: Integrating and Sustaining Habits of Mind
Habits of Mind aid students in school and adults in everyday life as they are challenged by problems, dilemmas, paradoxes, and enigmas for which the solutions are not immediately apparent. Drawing on the Habits of Mind means knowing how to behave intelligently when you don't know the answers. It means not only having information, but also knowing how to act on it.
Workshops
An Introduction to Habits of Mind
What are the characteristics of effective, creative problem solvers? How would teachers and administrators create school and classroom conditions to learn, practice and assess and report students' growth toward mastery of these behaviors? In this workshop the attributes of efficient, intelligent problem-solvers will be described. Teaching strategies and school conditions intended to develop, communicate, and assess these characteristics will be presented. Indicators of their mastery will be described.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES: Participants will learn to
* recognize sixteen indicators and habits of mind
* develop a common vision of the outcomes of a thoughtful school
* incorporate the Habits of Mind into all content areas and subject matter
* create a school environment that habituates thinking as a primary value
Assessing and Reporting Growth in the Habits of Mind
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
1. How do we know that students are getting better in their Habits of Mind?
2. How do we communicate growth?
3. How do we help students manage, monitor and modify their own performance of the Habits of Mind?
The purposes of this workshop are to:
1. help students manage, monitor and modify their own behaviors.
2. help students evaluate their own growth in the Habits of Mind.
3. assess and communicate growth in the habits of mind to staff, students and parents.
4. learn and use a variety of suitable strategies and tools to gather and communicate evidence of student’s growth in the Habits of Mind.
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