Guides readers through an understanding of how to create and sustain school cultures that value dispositional learning; ideally suited for use with Common Core implementation initiatives at school and district level.
Guides readers through an understanding of how to create and sustain school cultures that value dispositional learning; ideally suited for use with Common Core implementation initiatives at school and district level.
Are your students poised for success?
Need a clear roadmap for achieving the college and career readiness goals of the Common Core and 21st century learning? Grounded in Costa and Kallick's groundbreaking habits of mind work, and informed by current research, this book helps educators:
Build consensus around what attributes and abilities all students should possess by the time they graduate Develop a common language around these dispositions so that students will encounter them daily Integrate these dispositions into curriculum design, instruction, and assessment Create school cultures that value dispositional learning
“"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. "”
-- Foreword by Yong Zhao
Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D., is Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento, and co-founder of the Institute for Intelligent Behavior in El Dorado Hills, California. He has served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, an assistant superinten-dent for instruction, and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has made pre-sentations and conducted workshops in all fifty states as well as Mexico, Central and South America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the islands of the South
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