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Dispositions

Reframing Teaching and Learning

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

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Dispositions

Reframing Teaching and Learning

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

From the authors of the best-selling Habits of Mind… Two leading consultants present a game-changing look at why and how to “mind the gap” between what we claim are educational essentials, and how we evaluate results. Dispositions builds on the authors’ influential Habits of Mind writings, including new evidence of why influencing students’ dispositional habits is their key to finding meaning in classroom content. Topics include: Making dispositions come alive in the minds of students Shifting the thinking of educational leaders, parents, politicians and the public How to align day-to-day classroom practices with larger dispositional outcomes

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Corwin Press

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1483339130

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Nurturing Habits of Mind in Early Childhood

Success Stories from Classrooms Around the World

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

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Nurturing Habits of Mind in Early Childhood

Success Stories from Classrooms Around the World

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

In the first years of life, as children observe, imitate, and interact with people and their environment, the brain is structuring a foundation for vocabulary, values, cognitive processes, and social skills. Educators, you can help influence that development by teaching the skills and dispositions of intelligent, creative, effective decision makers and problem solvers. Within these pages, Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick share the authentic stories and experiences of teachers who have taught these Habits of Mind (HOM) to young children: - Persisting - Managing impulsivity - Listening with understanding and empathy - Thinking flexibly - Thinking about thinking - Striving for accuracy - Questioning and posing problems - Applying past knowledge to new situations - Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision - Gathering data through all senses - Creating, imagining, and innovating - Responding with wonderment and awe - Taking responsible risks - Finding humor - Thinking interdependently - Remaining open to continuous learning The practical examples in this book show how anybody who works with young children can introduce the Habits of Mind in entertaining and concrete ways that are developmentally appropriate. By designing learning experiences that reflect the situations and challenges children face in their lives, educators can help our youngest citizens begin to develop the habits of mind that feed a lifetime of learning.

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1416627111

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The School as a Home for the Mind

Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue

By: Arthur L. Costa

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The School as a Home for the Mind

Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue

By: Arthur L. Costa

Examines why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons and illustrates what thinking—and the teaching of thinking—looks and sounds like.

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1412950732

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Dispositions of Leadership

The Effects on Student Learning and School Culture

By: Gary Whiteley,Lexie Domaradzki,Arthur L. Costa,Patricia Muller

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Dispositions of Leadership

The Effects on Student Learning and School Culture

By: Gary Whiteley,Lexie Domaradzki,Arthur L. Costa,Patricia Muller

Dispositions of Leadership: The Effects on Student Learning and School Culture stands alone as an approach for developing leaders who are adaptive and can thrive in unpredictable settings. Educational leadership is a domain of its own, apart from business and industry, combining an effective learning environment for students and adults. Dispositions are acquired in the interactions between skillful thinking and circumstances that defy simplistic solutions. The five dispositions, as illustrated in the book, provide educational leaders with maps of the territory and examples of habits for intelligent responses to complex problems. Educational leaders must develop adaptive competence, the capability of applying prior leaning to a novel setting, while assessing the impact of potential solutions. This book challenges the utility of traditional command-and-control models that are no longer capable of supporting school leaders. Grounded in extensive research and review of leadership literature. Dispositions of Leadership: The Effects on Student Learning and School Culture describes how an effective educational leader in the Information Age applies dispositional thinking in order to be adaptive, self-aware and responsive to others.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475836279

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9781475836271

Nurturing Habits of Mind in Early Childhood

Success Stories from Classrooms Around the World

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

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Success Stories from Classrooms Around the World

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1416627103

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9781416627104

Techniques for Teaching Thinking

By: Arthur Costa,Lawrence F. Lowery

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Techniques for Teaching Thinking

By: Arthur Costa,Lawrence F. Lowery

Originally published in 1989 the purpose of this title was to provide information and ideas for: Staff Developers and Teacher Educators, as they consider program content to prepare teachers to teach thinking skills. Teachers, as they assess their own abilities to create classroom conditions for thinking and their readiness to implement a curriculum for developing thinking skills. Curriculum Developers, as they decide how the curriculum should be organized and sequenced according to children’s developmental levels. Administrators, as they assess and provide leadership for improving the conditions in their schools and classrooms, which allows the stimulating teaching of thinking. Although written some time ago the information is still valid today.

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Routledge

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1317269993

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Cognitive Coaching

Developing Self-Directed Leaders and Learners

By: Arthur L. Costa,Robert J. Garmston

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Cognitive Coaching

Developing Self-Directed Leaders and Learners

By: Arthur L. Costa,Robert J. Garmston

In this greatly expanded and extensively updated edition of a widely popular resource you see how teachers' individual and collective capacities for continuing self-improvement are strengthened over time through Cognitive Coaching. You gain essential skills, protocols, guidance, research and resources to use when implementing Cognitive Coaching principles and values in your own school setting. Working toward the goals of making school better places where more students succeed and satisfaction in learning and teaching prevail, Costa and Garmston let you know about their own learning, and how new research and practice can support individuals and schools in reaching higher, more satisfying, and more holistic performance. Organized into four sections, the book clearly and effectively presents these concepts: the meanings of cognitive coaching; the basics of teaching excellence; strategies and tactics for engaging in coaching; and how to integrate Cognitive Coaching throughout the system.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442223669

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Academic Conferences for School and Teacher Leaders

By: Eli Johnson,Arthur L. Costa

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Academic Conferences for School and Teacher Leaders

By: Eli Johnson,Arthur L. Costa

Academic conferences increase collaboration and support collegial dialogue between teachers, principals, and district administrators, while providing a forum for education professionals to consider school practices old and new, and plan ways to best utilize them all in the future. This book, by experienced educators Eli Johnson and Arthur L. Costa, is about encouraging and enhancing these necessary, but often neglected, conversations as a means of helping educators identify the ways that innovative teaching strategies can best connect positive classroom outcomes to the long-term plans, learning goals, and academic purposes of a school and district. Academic Conferences for School and Teacher Leaders proves an invaluable tool for educators and educational administrators who are tasked with the toughest decisions facing our struggling school system today, and is an ideal fit for courses in educational leadership and supervision of instruction. When structured effectively, academic conferences can transform schools and help educational leaders mine the excellence of every student in their classrooms, and this book is a necessary guide for any leader whose goal is to do just that.

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1442233419

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Habits of Mind Across the Curriculum

Practical and Creative Strategies for Teachers

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

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Habits of Mind Across the Curriculum

Practical and Creative Strategies for Teachers

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

Distinguished educators Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick present this collection of stories by educators around the world who have successfully implemented the habits in their day-to-day teaching in K-12 classrooms. The collective wisdom and experience of these thoughtful practitioners provide readers with insight into the transdisciplinary nature of the 16 Habits of Mind—intelligent behaviors that lead to success in school and the larger world—as well as model lessons and suggestions for weaving the habits into daily instruction in language arts, music, physical education, social studies, math, foreign language, and other content areas. Readers will come to understand that, far from an "add-on" to the curriculum, the habits are an essential element for helping students at all grade levels successfully deal with the challenges they face in school and beyond. As in all their books on the Habits of Mind, Costa and Kallick have a broad and worthwhile goal in mind. As they say in the concluding chapter of this volume, "If we want a future that is much more thoughtful, vastly more cooperative, greatly more compassionate, and a whole lot more loving, then we have to invent it. That future is in our homes, schools, and classrooms today. The Habits of Mind are the tools we all can use to invent our desired vision of the future.

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1416616462

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The Power of the Social Brain

Teaching, Learning, and Interdependent Thinking

By: Arthur L. Costa,Pat Wilson O'Leary

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The Power of the Social Brain

Teaching, Learning, and Interdependent Thinking

By: Arthur L. Costa,Pat Wilson O'Leary

Cooperative learning has been demonstrated by research to be one of the most highly effective teaching strategies, but simply putting students in a group is not enough. The authors of The Power of the Social Brain see interdependent thinking as the missing piece of the collaborative puzzle. This authoritative book provides research from the neurosciences and education along with practical strategies to help groups function more effectively and thoughtfully. By adding the cognitive dimension to cooperative learning, this book will help readers apply strategies of successful group work in classrooms and professional educational learning communities.

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Teachers College Press

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0807771627

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9780807771624

Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

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Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

This volume focuses on assessing students' abilities as self-directed learners. The authors use 'triangulation' to ensure that the assessment system is balanced and complete.

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0761938710

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Dispositions

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

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Dispositions

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

Education must include the development of the human elements in our children. Costa and Kallick present a reasonable, practical and positive alternative-- the cultivation of dispositional thinking, the very core of being human.

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1483339106

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Cognitive Capital: Investing in Teacher Quality

By: Arthur L. Costa,Robert J. Garmston,Diane P. Zimmerman

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Cognitive Capital: Investing in Teacher Quality

By: Arthur L. Costa,Robert J. Garmston,Diane P. Zimmerman

Building on the authors' celebrated work in cognitive coaching, this important book provides teachers, schools, and policy leaders with the rationale and new direction for enhancing the development of the intellectual capacity of educators their performance, and their ultimate effects on student learning. The authors focus on assisting teachers in developing awareness in thier own ability to make effective judgements based on all their capabilities and experiences. When teachers weave internal expertise and external criteria together into the exquisite tapestry of teaching and learning, they gain confidence in their ability to make a difference for all students. Rather than spending time becoming better inspectors and enforcers, Cognitive Captial calls for skillful leaders to engage educators' though processes which promote practices that have high impacts on their students.

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0807754978

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The School as a Home for the Mind

Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue

By: Arthur L. Costa

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The School as a Home for the Mind

Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue

By: Arthur L. Costa

Compiled to celebrate Arthur L. Costa's distinguished career, The School As a Home for the Mind, Second Edition assembles under one cover the author's best thinking about the teaching of thinking. Costa explains why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons, how such instruction can take place, and what thinking and the teaching of thinking looks like and sounds like. He also discusses the curricular changes that accompany the introduction of teaching for, of, and about thinking. This expanded edition includes Costa's recent articles incorporating the latest theory, research, and practice about the teaching of thinking.

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1412950740

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Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

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Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning

By: Arthur L. Costa,Bena Kallick

This volume focuses on assessing students' abilities as self-directed learners. The authors use 'triangulation' to ensure that the assessment system is balanced and complete.

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The School as a Home for the Mind

A Collection of Articles

By: Arthur L. Costa

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The School as a Home for the Mind

A Collection of Articles

By: Arthur L. Costa

Formerly a SkyLight publication This collection of articles provides you with effective strategies for integrating thinking instruction into your lesson plans and inspiring student thinking.

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Cognitive Capital

Investing in Teacher Quality

By: Arthur L. Costa,Robert J. Garmston,Diane P. Zimmerman

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Cognitive Capital

Investing in Teacher Quality

By: Arthur L. Costa,Robert J. Garmston,Diane P. Zimmerman

Building on the authors’ celebrated work in cognitive coaching, this important book provides teachers, schools, and policy leaders with the rationale and new direction for enhancing the development of the intellectual capacity of educators, their performance, and their ultimate effects on student learning. The authors focus on assisting teachers in developing awareness in their own ability to make effective judgments based on all their capabilities and experiences. When teachers weave internal expertise and external criteria together into the exquisite tapestry of teaching and learning, they gain confidence in their ability to make a difference for all students. Rather than spending time becoming better inspectors and enforcers, Cognitive Capital calls for skillful leaders to engage educators’ thought processes which promote practices that have high impacts on their students. “The authors have positioned ‘cognitive capital’ at the center of understanding and developing teacher quality and have succeeded brilliantly.” —Michael Fullan, professor emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, author of Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School “In contrast to the persistent trend of simplifying teaching via reductive evaluation tools, Costa, Garmston, and Zimmerman dive fearlessly into its complexities. Cultivating ‘cognitive capital’ is a refreshing new direction for educators to embrace. The ideas and recommended actions in this fascinating book support a culture of thoughtful innovation which develops mindful and resourceful professionals. The contemporary learners in our classrooms need nothing less.” —Heidi Hayes Jacobs, president, Curriculum Designers, Inc., curriculum21.com Arthur L. Costa is emeritus professor of education at California State University, Sacramento. Robert J. Garmston is emeritus professor of educational administration at California State University, Sacramento. Diane P. Zimmerman is a former superintendent for the Old Adobe Schools in Petaluma, California.

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