Health & Fitness
The 5 Habits of Mind & The 4 Cs
A 21st century classroom must engage and energize students. A school's job isn't only to relay information to the students, but to prepare them to be active participants in our exciting global community.
A 21st century classroom must engage and energize students. A school’s job isn’t only to relay information to the students, but to prepare them to be active participants in our exciting global community.
Educational reformer, writer and activist, Deborah Meier has spent more than 30 years thinking about what it means to be an educated person in today’s society. She believes the core mission of a school is to produce critical, thoughtful, interesting citizens and workers. To do this, she believes it’s not the teacher’s job to pour information into students; instead a teacher’s job is to help students sift through all the information out there and apply it for themselves. Students should be learning a specific set of skills in school in order to be highly effective in the world. These skills are known as the “5 Habits of Mind,” which include:
- Significance – Why something is important. Does it matter?
- Perspective – What is the point of view?
- Evidence – How do you know? What makes this credible to us?
- Connection – How does it apply? Have we seen something like this before?
- Supposition – What if it were different?
