An amazing learning experience. Attend a full day workshop on Habits of Mind with world leader in education theory and practice, Arthur Costa, or explore what constitutes a purposeful life with acclaimed positive psychology lecturer, Tal Ben Shahar.

Arthur L. Costa is Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento and Cofounder of the Institute for Habits of Mind. He has served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, an assistant superintendent for instruction and as the Director of Educational Programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and has made presentations and conducted workshops around the world. He has authored and edited numerous journal articles and books including - Developing Minds: A Resource Book for Teaching Thinking; The School as a Home for the Mind; and Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind. Active in many professional organizations, he served as National President of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development from 1988 to 1989.

What You’ll Learn

Shared vision, one attribute of effective schools, is achieved when all members of the school community focus on a common set of outcomes. The Habits of Mind - those intellectual characteristics of effective, self-directed learners and creative problem solvers - can become the norms of the entire community. Participants will find out how teachers, administrators and parents can work together to create a learning environment designed to cultivate, assess and report growth toward these enduring and essential life-long learnings. Sixteen trans-disciplinary Habits of Mind will be explored. Teaching strategies, assessment techniques and school conditions intended to develop and communicate these characteristics for students and adults will be presented.

Participants will learn to:

• recognise 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
• gather evidence of and communicate growth in the habits of mind
• self-assess growth in the Habits of Mind