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WELCOME
ENRICHMENT
AT ESE
All students are involved in enrichment activities every day at ESE. We use the latest educational research to bring learning to life for every child. Many teachers have been trained to use Habits of Mind with their students. This set of habits applies to successful people of all ages and occupations everywhere.
Parents may wish to use the same language with their children at home that they are hearing in school. For instance, one of the Habits of Mind of successful people is their ability to "Apply their past knowledge to new situations". Students are required to do that many times during a school day. Other habits essential to success in school are:
- Managing impulsivity.
- Taking responsible risks.
- Striving for accuracy.
- Metacognating (Thinking about thinking)
Habits of Mind Check out more at the website by clicking on the title. This can improve everyone's life at home or at work.
- A Habit of Mind is knowing how to behave intelligently when you DON'T know the answer.
- A Habit of Mind means having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known: dichotomies, dilemmas, enigmas and uncertainties.
- Our focus is on performance under challenging conditions that demand strategic reasoning, insightfulness, perseverance, creativity, and craftsmanship. The critical attribute of intelligent human beings is not only having information, but also knowing how to act on it.
- Employing Habits of Mind requires drawing forth certain patterns of intellectual behavior that produce powerful results. They are a composite of many skills, attitudes and proclivities including:
- Value: Choosing to employ a pattern of intellectual behaviors rather than other, less productive patterns.
- Inclination: Feeling the tendency toward employing a pattern of intellectual behaviors.
- Sensitivity: Perceiving opportunities for, and appropriateness of employing the pattern of behavior.
- Capability: Possessing the basic skills and capacities to carry through with the behaviors.
- Commitment: Constantly striving to reflect on and improve performance of the pattern of intellectual behavior.
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