- To be open-minded - "being flexible, willing to consider and try out new ideas, generating alternative options and explanations, and looking beyond the given and expected"
- To be curious - "explore our world, to ask questions about it, and to wonder at it"
- To be metacognitive - "thinking about one's thinking"
- To be seeking truth and understanding - "weighing the evidence, considering its validity, looking for links between bits of evidence to build up a theory and then testing the theory by looking at counterevidence and alternative explanations"
- To be strategic - "planful, anticipatory, methodical, and careful in our thinking"
- To be skeptical - "probing below the surface of things, looking for proof and evidence, and not accepting things at face value"
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Intellectual Character
This past summer I just completed a master's course that investigated how teachers can change or examine their own teaching culture and methods to see if intellectual character is part of their classroom. Some of the dispositions of thinking from author Ron Ritchhart would be:
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