![]() Our parent community is also committed to the Habits of Mind as a way of reinforcing the thinking framework that occurs at school. We are proud that the staff at St Joseph’s have committed themselves to employing and understanding the Habits of Mind. It is our responsibility to teach children HOW to learn as well as WHAT to learn. We fell in love with the Habits of Mind and it just made total sense to be teaching children these dispositions of how to think and learn. ![]() We were convinced from that visit that we wanted to try and emulate the efforts of Ross in our own school. We had never seen learning more purposeful than what we saw at College St. The Habits of Mind were visible and you could hear the language in every classroom. You could feel the essence of learning in everything they did. The Habits of Mind were really lived by the staff and students. We saw a dynamic place that made a huge impression. In 2006, members of the St Joseph’s staff had the privilege of visiting several schools in New Zealand where we came across College St Normal School in Palmerston North under the leadership of Ross Kennedy and Trudy Francis. When the Habits of Mind are coached positively and aesthetically into the everyday curriculum structures of a school, then one really appreciates the value of the Habits of Mind. The trouble is that the Habits of Mind are not known and articulated by everyone. Most parents want the type of qualities or dispositions for their children that the Habits of Mind offer. Luckily we are all different but if you were to look closely at the values based education that the government promotes and the ethos of Catholic Education, you would soon identify qualities of the Habits of Mind. One could ask, “well if the Habits of Mind are so good, why doesn’t everybody know about them and why aren’t they taught in all schools?”
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