Talk:16 Habits of Mind
-- Kfuller (talk) 18:00, 21 November 2014 (EST)
[Kathryn Fuller]
Hi Pushpa,
You have a lot of really good information on your page. This is an interesting topic and you offer a lot of support for instructors on it. I think it is a little overwhelming to have it all on one page. Maybe you could create different pages for each of the units. That would help break it down for your readers. I was also wondering if the gray boxes that come up with the names of the people you are quoting for the habits have a purpose? Do they link to anything? I couldn't get them to do anything and was kind of confused by them.
Kate
instructor comment on your mini-course -- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 11:47, 1 December 2014 (EST)
Hi Pushpa,
It's great to see your full mini-course drafted. A few refinements for your to make:
- Objectives: Your objectives listed in your portfolio page/curriculum map and your mini-course need to be carefully refined to describe what the learner will be able to perform as the result of learning using this mini-course, not what they will do during this course. Here are a couple examples of describing what they do during the lessons, and please carefully look at other objectives too.
The learner will watch videos and listen to songs as resources for the 16 Habits of Mind. The learner will read through activities and stories
- Engagement and interaction: You could better engage the learner by (a) providing an inviting opening paragraph in your course main page to introduce the 16 habits including why they are important for student learning and development; (b) For each major assignment in your units, provide a guiding question to highlight the purpose of the reading, summarize the key message, and specify a section or two to read carefully (for long readings).
- Sequencing: Your last unit asks the learner to create a lesson. They could be better prepared for this task if you provide a summary of the related readings/resources provided to give a framework/guidance about how to create such lesson plan before they work on assignment 3.
- Navigation: In the end of each unit (except your last unit), include a link to the next unit.