Dispositions As Habits of Mind

Erskine S. Dottin

doi:10.5771/9780761849643

Summary

Dispositions as Habits of Mind provides opportunities for candidates in teacher education programs, which focus on nurturing and assessing dispositions, to see the habits of mind for making professional conduct more intelligent, practice them, and receive feedback about their performance. Some scholars have pointed out that the rush by many teacher education programs to meet accreditation mandates with regard to 'dispositions' has generated a host of measures for assessing dispositions and very little focus on programs first establishing some conceptual understanding of the construct, and then teaching candidates about dispositions. This work on dispositions highlights the serious effort to help teachers and other professional school personnel to form habits and use them as active means in making their professional conduct more effective and intelligent.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-4963-6
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-4964-3
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 149
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
5. Introduction No access
1. Active Means Waiting to be Used No access
2. Habits and Teacher Conduct No access
Chapter 2: Making Professional Conduct More Effective No access Pages 7 - 12
1. Relevance of Inquiry No access
1. From Unit to Course No access
2. Backward Course Design No access
3. Learning Experiences Process No access
4. From Course Design to Nurturing Habits of Mind No access
1. Introductory Course Session I No access
2. Introductory Course Session II No access
3. Learning Objective I No access
4. Learning Objective II No access
5. Learning Objective III No access
6. Learning Objective IV No access
7. Learning Objective V No access
1. Interpretive Inquiry No access
2. Course Experience and Growth in Habits of Mind No access
3. Reflections in Habits of Mind Inventory about Being Thoughtful No access
4. Reflections in Habits of Mind Inventory about Persisting No access
5. Reflections in Habits of Mind Inventory about Being Cooperative No access
6. Reflections in Habits of Mind Inventory that Highlight Importance of Reflection No access
7. Reflections in Habits of Mind Inventory that Highlight Things Learned about Self No access
8. Transfer of Habits of Mind No access
9. Statistical Evidence of Change in Habits of Mind No access
10. Other Evidence of Perceived Change in Habits of Mind No access
1. Lesson One No access
2. Lesson Two No access
3. Conclusion No access
Appendix No access Pages 125 - 138
Bibliography No access Pages 139 - 146
Index No access Pages 147 - 148
Author's Biographical Sketch No access Pages 149 - 149