What Else Can We Learn From Deborah Meier and The Power of Their Ideas

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What Else Can We Learn From Deborah Meier and
The Power of Their Ideas?
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5 Habits of the Mind
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Habit 1

• Concern for Evidence
• How do you know that?
• How do we know what we know?

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Habit 2

• Viewpoint in all its Multiplicity
• Who said it and why?
• Whos speaking?

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Habit 3

• Cause and Effect
• What led to it?
• What causes what?
• What else happened?

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Habit 4

• Hypothesizing or Supposition
• What if, supposing that
• How might things have been different?

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Habit 5

• Why Any of it Matters
• Who cares?
• Does it matter?
• Does it make a difference?

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10 Important Points About CPE and CPESS
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Schools should be small and highly personal.
Where schools are large they should be broken
into interdisciplinary houses.
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Cooperative learning is key to successful
learning.
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There should be integration of curriculum
history and literature, math and science, etc.
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Academic periods should be longer in high
schools-at least an hour, ideally two hours.
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High school homerooms should be full-length
periods and serve as serious advisory places, and
teachers should stay with the same homeroom for
two years or more.
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Fewer subjects, taught thoroughly, are better
than lots of courses taught superficially.
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Decisions about curriculum, pedagogy and
scheduling should be made by on-site
professionals.
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Parents should be informed and involved in their
childrens education.
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Students should be expected to demonstrate their
abilities directly- to show what they know and
can do. Multiple-choice tests are not a
substitute for the real performance.
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Students should be expected to engage in socially
useful work, and should learn about the
world-of-work through school-directed work
experiences.