Celebrating Cultures

Higher Order Thinking Skills.

The idea here is that some forms of learning require greater cognitive effort than others e.g. analysing information is cognitively more effortful (requires more cognitive processing) than learning facts.

You can see a more detailed definition here.

The Habits of Mind are a collection of learner attitudes and dispositions that can powerfully supplement the academic content in your classroom. This Learning Path will allow you to become familiar with the definition, significance, and nuance of each habit.

Persisting, Thinking Flexibly, and Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations are just three of the 16 Habits of Mind that, when mastered, will support students in improved citizenship while also promoting strategic reasoning, insightfulness, and perseverance in and out of the classroom.

An example of non-associative learning in which there is a progressive diminution of behavioral response probability with repetition of a stimulus. It is another form of integration.

Haiku are short poems that use sensory language to capture a feeling or image.Haiku poetry was originally developed by Japanese poets.

Japanese Haiku traditionally consist of 17 on, or sounds, devided into three phrases : 5 sounds, 7 sounds and 5 sounds.

Here is a sample

"Refreshing and cool

love is a sweet summer rain

that washes the world"

Hairdressing - the act or process of cutting, styling, or dressing the hair as well as the vocation or occupation of the hair.

gained by actually doing something rather than learning about it from books, lectures, etc.

the state of being happy

Behaviour that is modified (usually improved) due to being observed or given extra attention in a pilot or experiement, rather than the implementation of the pilot or experiemental activity.

Higher Education - education that usually follows secondary education and takes place at University or college.

“Heutagogy is the study of self-determined learning … It is also an attempt to challenge some ideas about teaching and learning that still prevail in teacher centred learning and the need for, as Bill Ford (1997) eloquently puts it ‘knowledge sharing’ rather than ‘knowledge hoarding’. In this respect heutagogy looks to the future in which knowing how to learn will be a fundamental skill given the pace of innovation and the changing structure of communities and workplaces.”