Habits of Mind and Thinking

Habits of Mind and Thinking, A. Costa and B. Kallick.
It is really nice to have things pointed out to you in such a clear way, this has helped me in ways I have never thought of before, I didn't know that Persisting was a habit of mind. Or that finding humour was, so this article made me do the whole metacognition thing. I sometimes feel that I am tripping over my shoe laces at the moment, with all this thinking about thinking, what it's working, which bits it's working and what is supposed to happen when it does all work, Oh man! what if it doesn't work the way it's supposed to.
So I will keep these 16 points as a tool for my planning of lessons. Questions that I will be able to ask myself as I plan day to day classes, am I giving depth and development to my lesson structure?. Not only will it be a tool of self analysis it will be a tool for me to develope criteria for my own personal ability to assess the students that I have to teach.
The fact that it was an Australian based trial and it had such a positive result, has given me hope that it might become a widely used approach throughout the education system, as it invests respect and responsibility back into the student.