Waihi East Primary School » HOM http://blog.waihi-east.school.nz Rise Above and Shine Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:23:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 HABITS OF MIND http://blog.waihi-east.school.nz/2009/12/04/habits-of-mind-22/ http://blog.waihi-east.school.nz/2009/12/04/habits-of-mind-22/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:01:03 +0000 waihieast http://blog.waihi-east.school.nz/?p=1247 learning

This week’s Habits of Mind continues to be Learning Forever.

Remaining open to Continuous Learning. Successful people

learn all the time for all their lives. Not just at school.

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thinking

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thinking

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This week’s Habits of Mind is responding

with Wonderment and Awe. WOW! Successful

people respond with awe to the world.

They want to learn and know more.

]]> http://blog.waihi-east.school.nz/2009/11/06/habits-of-mind-19/feed/ 0 ICT and the Key Competencies http://blog.waihi-east.school.nz/2009/10/26/ict-and-the-key-competencies/ http://blog.waihi-east.school.nz/2009/10/26/ict-and-the-key-competencies/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:20:05 +0000 waihieast http://blog.waihi-east.school.nz/?p=1071 Derek Weymouth was a keynote presenter at the ICT conference ULEARN 2009 in Christchurch, below is his Slideshare presentation on the way the new curriculum’s key competencies integrate with ICT.

ICT and the Key Competencies
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This week’s Habits of Mind continues to be

“Applying Past Knowledge to new situations.”

Successful people learn from past experience.

They use what they know on new challenges.

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persistance

This week’s Habits of Mind is Persistence.

Successful people don’t give up easily.

If it doesn’t work one way they try another.


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This week’s Habits of

Mind continues to

be “Creating and

Innovating”.

Successful people

create clever

and innovative solutions to problems.

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This week’s Habits

of Mind is “Creating

and Innovating”.

Successful people

create clever and

innovative solutions

to problems.

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Thinking interdependently

This week’s Habits of Mind continues to be ‘Thinking Interdependently’. Successful people can work well with others in the team to solve problems.

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