Purposeful Communication
While delivering a speech, you notice the audience looks confused. You pause, rephrase your points, and clarify your examples to ensure understanding. What habit of mind are you practicing?
What is Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision
You notice that your team is struggling to meet deadlines, so you gather everyone to identify the root causes, like unclear roles and poor time management. This is the first step in solving the issue.
What is Questioning and Posing Problems.
You are a new student at a large university in the city. As you start to meet people, you realize that most people you are meeting have a different background and experiences than you. You are becoming proficient in this aspect of emotional intelligence?
What is self-awareness
At the start of the semester, you take time to go over each course syllabus to get a deep understanding of what is being asked of you and what to expect in each class. You realize you never learned any of the information need for this course. Trying the course and asking for help could represent which habit of mind?
What is persisting OR taking responsible risk
During a job interview, you realize that using technical jargon might confuse the interviewer, who is not in the same field. Adjusting your language demonstrates this habit of mind.
What is Creating, Imagining, and Innovating
While planning a hiking trip, you realize one major obstacle: a key trail is closed. Recognizing and pushing through this obstacle is an example of which habit of mind?
What is Persistening
You are participating in a class debate. Your classmates are sharing valuable information. You recognize their perspective but still hold your beliefs. You respectfully disagree with your classmates and share that with the class. What habit of mind are you practicing?
What is Taking Responsible Risk.
You decided to take an elective art class that is outside your comfort zone as a business administration major. You struggle at first because it is harder than you assumed it would be. You decide to stay in the course and put forth your best effort. You are practicing this signpost.
What is Remaining Open to Continuous Learning
You are tasked with explaining a complex article to your class. Instead of repeating what you read, you break it down into simpler ideas to ensure everyone understands. What skill are you demonstrating?
What is Metacognition (thinking about your thinking)
Question: Your car breaks down on a snowy road. Instead of panicking, in your mind, you run through your options: calling roadside assistance, asking a nearby driver for help, or walking to a service station. This demonstrates this step of problem solving.
What is Thinking Flexibly
You decide to start walking to campus instead of driving to reduce your environmental impact. While you are walking, someone yells, "Get out the way!". You are furious and your instant reaction is to yell back at them! You pause, take a breath, and ignore the person who yelled at you.
What is Managing Impulsivity.
Your professor hands out self-assessments at the start, middle, and end of each semester. The self-assessments asks you to list your strengths, weaknesses, your learning styles, feelings, and thoughts about the class. Which habit of mind is your professor helping you practice?
What is Metacognition (thinking about your thinking)
You are organizing a community event and write a flyer specifically designed to grab the attention of families with children. You are debating what flowers, food items, and decor would grab the attention of families with children. This habit ensures your message is focused on your audience and requires you to gather data through various avenues.
What is Gathering Data through all senses.
During a school fundraiser, you decide to sell baked goods, but halfway through the event, you realize drinks would go hand in hand and you made money when you served drinks at the previous school fundraiser. You adjust the plan by adding beverages. What habit are you showing?
What is Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations.
You are assigned a semester long group project. Being a part of a new group is scary for you and you do not know anyone in the group or the topic very well. Instead of remaining silent or not participating, you ask the group for help and explain the areas you are really good at and the challenge you are having with understanding the material. This will habit of mind will ultimately help you grow in your learning and resist complacency.
What is Remaining Open to Continuous Learning
You trip and fall in front of the entire junior class at assembly. You get up and laugh, even taking a bow showing that you are okay. What habit of mind are you practicing?
What is Finding Humor
During a group project, you listen to everyone’s ideas and adapt your own suggestions to align with the team’s goals. This approach demonstrates which habit of mind?
What is Thinking Flexibly.
After implementing a new study schedule, you check your grades at the end of the semester to see if your performance improved. What habit of mind are you using?
What is Striving for Accuracy.
Beliefs, ideas, and values are influenced by personal experiences as well as cultural, historical, and political. You disagree with the beliefs and values of someone, so you ask them to share their perspective. What habit of mind are you practicing?
What is listening with understanding and empathy.
No matter how educated or skilled you become in, you will always improve upon these skills. This set of thinking and problem solving behaviors are used when people face complex or uncertain situations.
What is habits of mind?