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"I've already done persistence!"
This was what my daughter came home saying after her teacher had "done" persistence for the third time this semester. And it's the sort of thing I hear from lots of teachers and students just before their work with Habits of Mind falls over.
How do you avoid the "We've done this already" syndrome?
Sometimes students think that if they need to persist at a task in class then they must not be smart enough. They learn not to value persistence because they see it as a sign that they are not smart enough to "get it" the first time.
Of course that's a generalization, but there's more than a little truth to it as well.
In my classroom I used the strategy described in this blog entry to teach students scientific method and how to plan an experiment.
One of the characteristics of people who are good at Managing their Impulsivity is their ability to plan. They are good at establishing goals and then planing out the steps required to reach that goal.
However, in many classroom situations the planning is being done for the students. Teachers routinely plan out the learning path, the steps for the assignment, or the order of the tasks that need to be completed.
It may seem counter intuitive, but the word “think” is something that should only rarely be used in a classroom. The reason: students don’t know how to think, and you can’t teach them to do it!
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