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Toyota Kata builds a culture of continuous improvement by making “scientific thinking†a repeatable pattern of thinking and behavior. In these 4 FREE case study videos, you’ll hear real stories of transformed people and organizations… http://katasummit.com/kataresources Via Steven Bonacorsi 
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What kind of thinker is your child? Does he believe everything on TV? Does she always figure out how to get what she wants? Does he ask questions? Does she go along with what her friends suggest? You can help develop your child’s critical thinking skills by learning a few key guidelines! Whether your child is just starting summer vacation or in the midst of the school year, parents can help keep minds active in fun ways. Critical thinking skills don’t fully develop until adolescence but the foundations for good thinking develop in younger children. The nonprofit Foundation for Critical Thinking cultivates core intellectual virtues that lead to fair-minding thinking. They have identified three ways K-6 children typically think. Naïve Nancy doesn’t believe she needs to think because her parents do it for her! She believes most things she hears on TV, doesn’t ask questions, and goes along with what her friends decide.Selfish Sam thinks a lot because it gets him what he wants. He believes whatever is necessary to achieve his goals, regardless of whether it hurts others. He figures out how to get other kids to do what he wants them to do. Sam is a clever manipulator of adults and other children.Fair-minded Fran thinks a lot because it helps her learn. She knows she can’t always believe what people say or what she sees and hears on TV. Fran thinks about others as well as herself. She is motivated to understand other people’s situations and attempts to put herself in their shoes.What is Critical Thinking?What is critical thinking? Critical thinking comprises a number of different skills that help us learn to make decisions. It is the ability to evaluate information to determine whether it is right or wrong. To think critically about an issue or a problem means to be open-minded and consider alternative ways of looking at solutions. As children grow into pre-adolescents and teenagers, their critical thinking skills will help them make judgments independently of parents. To be good at thinking, children must believe that thinking is fun and want to be good at it. Parents can make thinking fun throughout the academic year as well as during the summer and on vacations. Good thinkers practice thinking just like they practice basketball or soccer. You can talk about these ways of thinking with your children by watching this video together. Afterwards, have a discussion about how they can practice being like Fair-Minded Fran. 5 Ways to Help Kids Think Critically The Foundation for Critical Thinking developed a short series of five “Intellectual Standards,” ways of helping elementary-aged children learn to think better. Teach these standards to your kids, and then interact with them in ways that reinforce the five standards. Invite them to BE CLEAR by asking for explanations and examples when they don’t understand something. Let children know it is okay to be confused and ask questions.Urge kids to BE ACCURATE, to check to see if something is true by researching the facts.Encourage children to BE RELEVANT by discussing other topics that are pertinent to the discussion or problem at hand. Help them stay on track by linking related and meaningful information to the question they are trying to answer or the topic they are learning about.Support your child’s ability to BE LOGICAL. Help them see how things fit together. Question how they came to their conclusions and whether their assumptions are correct.Set expectations that your child BE FAIR. Promote empathy in children’s thinking processes. Make sure they consider others when drawing conclusions.An excellent video to share with your K-6 aged child reviews these five standards in ways that children can understand. Once parents and children speak a common language about the standards of critical thinking, employ them throughout the year and especially during the summer months! Along with having fun, your child’s mind will learn to think critically about the world around them!
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Seattle improviser and auctioneer Matt Smith shows how altering our physiological response to failure can lead to transparency, availability, flexibility and... This is a great message and technique to incorporate into a session about letting failure go. The video is short and worth listening to all of it, but if you are impatient skip to minute 7 and listen to the last five minutes.
Inner Voices: We all have inner negative headsets that we learned as kids. It boils down to:
Don't Make A Mistake
Then there is the "mistake" moment. We cringe .... Think of your last mistake -- personal or at work. Feel what your body does -- the cringe, the shame. What does it feel like. That's what is stopping us from learning from mistakes or failure.
Our body gives in to the mistake. It's like gumby doing the bidding. I made a mistake!
No matter you learned this as a child - in school or whatever. As an adult, it probably still haunts you. It keeps you from being creative, stops us, but here is a technique to get past it: The failure bow.
Coming to Terms With A Mistake So You Can Learn
Trapeze artists do it, improvisers, gymnists
Don't go into cringe mode, do this:
(1) Raise hands to offer it up and let it go (2) Dumb ass grin like a dog being trained and uses submission (3) Say thank you I failed and move on
Don't walk into a meeting late and raise your hands and shout this, but you can do it under the table
If you incorporate the failure bow, you are not glorifying failure - but rewarding the transparency, being accountable, being in the present, and paving the way to innovation. Via Beth Kanter
Beth Kanter's curator insight,
December 22, 2012 11:30 AM
This is a great message and technique to incorporate into a session about letting failure go. The video is short and worth listening to all of it, but if you are impatient skip to minute 7 and listen to the last five minutes. Inner Voices: We all have inner negative headsets that we learned as kids. It boils down to: Don't Make A Mistake Then there is the "mistake" moment. We cringe .... Think of your last mistake -- personal or at work. Feel what your body does -- the cringe, the shame. What does it feel like. That's what is stopping us from learning from mistakes or failure. Our body gives in to the mistake. It's like gumby doing the bidding. I made a mistake! No matter you learned this as a child - in school or whatever. As an adult, it probably still haunts you. It keeps you from being creative, stops us, but here is a technique to get past it: The failure bow. Coming to Terms With A Mistake So You Can Learn Trapeze artists do it, improvisers, gymnists Don't go into cringe mode, do this: (1) Raise hands to offer it up and let it go (2) Dumb ass grin like a dog being trained and uses submission (3) Say thank you I failed and move on Don't walk into a meeting late and raise your hands and shout this, but you can do it under the table If you incorporate the failure bow, you are not glorifying failure - but rewarding the transparency, being accountable, being in the present, and paving the way to innovation. Visuals to incorporate http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/galleries/72157632309133445/ |
