exploratory essay
Sandy Saechao
July 22, 2014
One foundation of becoming a better reader and writer comes from the “Habits of Mind”. Habits of Mind helps students have an entrance to a kind of thinking that is intellectual and yet practical at the same time. The habits of mind are all habits that students usually carry and with bringing more awareness to that, they can strengthen themselves in the areas within the habits of mind. These habits include curiosity, openness, engagement, creativity, persistence, responsibility, flexibility, and metacognition. There are many students that excel in reading and writing but sometimes there are writing challenges that even they come upon on. And with approaching them, are their minds in the most activeness that they can be in? This begins a question of if students were to emphasize all these habits they already have, will that achieve themselves a fuller active mind with greater flexibility in their reading and writing? And is this an idea that all students should be taking an advantage of.
Every year we have all these new students entering into their college lives ready to stretch their knowledge and learn all these new techniques in school. Taking with them, everything that have learned in high school and beginning to build more on those things. Learning how to approach all these different challenges and growing towards becoming more intellectual in their writings. But before they can begin to approach these things, they need to find where they stand in reading and writing. To know how well their abilities are and what is it that they need to begin working on so that they are ready for the bigger writing challenges that will come before them. Knowing the habits of mind is what is going to help them understand where they stand it will help them improve and position themselves for every new writing assignment they encounter.
In high school these habits of mind criterias helped me understand more about where I stand in reading and
July 22, 2014
One foundation of becoming a better reader and writer comes from the “Habits of Mind”. Habits of Mind helps students have an entrance to a kind of thinking that is intellectual and yet practical at the same time. The habits of mind are all habits that students usually carry and with bringing more awareness to that, they can strengthen themselves in the areas within the habits of mind. These habits include curiosity, openness, engagement, creativity, persistence, responsibility, flexibility, and metacognition. There are many students that excel in reading and writing but sometimes there are writing challenges that even they come upon on. And with approaching them, are their minds in the most activeness that they can be in? This begins a question of if students were to emphasize all these habits they already have, will that achieve themselves a fuller active mind with greater flexibility in their reading and writing? And is this an idea that all students should be taking an advantage of.
Every year we have all these new students entering into their college lives ready to stretch their knowledge and learn all these new techniques in school. Taking with them, everything that have learned in high school and beginning to build more on those things. Learning how to approach all these different challenges and growing towards becoming more intellectual in their writings. But before they can begin to approach these things, they need to find where they stand in reading and writing. To know how well their abilities are and what is it that they need to begin working on so that they are ready for the bigger writing challenges that will come before them. Knowing the habits of mind is what is going to help them understand where they stand it will help them improve and position themselves for every new writing assignment they encounter.
In high school these habits of mind criterias helped me understand more about where I stand in reading and