Week 3: Habits of Mind

• Curiosity – the desire to know more about the world

• Openness – the willingness to consider new ways of being and thinking in the world

• Engagement – a sense of investment and involvement in learning

• Creativity – the ability to use novel approaches for generating, investigating, and representing ideas

• Persistence – the ability to sustain interest in and attention to short- and long-term projects

• Flexibility – the ability to adapt to situations, expectations, or demands

• Responsibility – the ability to take ownership of one’s actions and understand the consequences of those actions for oneself and others

• Metacognition (reflection) – the ability to reflect on one’s own thinking as well as on the individual and cultural processes used to structure knowledge