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16 Habits of Mind Necessary for the 21st Century: (Costa & Kallick, 2000, 2009)


 * 1) Persisting: Stick to it/! Persevering in a task through to completion; remaining focused.
 * 2) Managing impulsivity: Take your time! Thinking before acting; remaining calm, thoughtful, and deliberative.
 * 3) Listening with understanding and empathy: Understand others! Devoting mental energy to another person's thoughts and ideas; holding in abeyance one's own thoughts in order to perceive another's point of view and emotions.
 * 4) Thinking flexibly: Look at it another way! Being able to change perspectives, generate alternatives, consider options.
 * 5) Thinking about your thinking (metacognition): Know your knowing! Being aware of one's own thoughts, strategies, feelings, and actions and their effects on others.
 * 6) Striving for accuracy and precision: Check it again! A desire for exactness, fidelity, craftsmanship, and truthfulness.
 * 7) Questioning and problem posing: How do you know? Having a questioning attitude; knowing what data are needed and developing questioning strategies to generate information.
 * 8) Applying past knowledge to novel situations: Use what you learn! Accessing prior knowledge; transferring knowledge beyond the situation in which it was learned.
 * 9) Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision: Be clear! Striving for accurte communiation in both written and oral form; avoiding overgeneralizations, distortions and deletions.
 * 10) Gathering data through all senses: Use your natural pathways! Gathering data through all the sensory pathways-gustatory, olfactory, tactile, kinesthetic, auditory, and visual.
 * 11) Creating, imagining, and innovating: Try a different way@ Generating new and novel ideas, fluency, originality.
 * 12) Responding with wonderment and awe: Have fun figuring it out! Finding the world awesome and mysterious, and being intrigued with phenomena and beauty.
 * 13) Taking responsible risks: Venture out! Being adventuresome; living on the edge of one's competence.
 * 14) Finding humor: Laugh a little! Finding the whimsical, incongruous and unexpected. Being able to laugh at oneself.
 * 15) Thinking interdependently: Work together! Being able to work with and learn from others in reciprocal situations.
 * 16) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Remaining open to continuous learning: Learn from experience! Having humility and pride when admitting we don't knowd; resisting complacency.