• Teach new strategies, refine old ones and help learners to select appropriate ones.
• Provide guidance in integrating the use of the Habits of Mind in groups and sequences.
• Invite students to describe what skills and strategies helped them when they needed to for example, persist, Manage their impulsivity, think flexibly.
• Unpack each Habits of Mind to identify the metacognitive skills and strategies appropriate to each; for example, Use mind maps to answer the question “What to do when I get stuck.”