Karla's Kreations: Scholarly Behaviors

I have a new job- I am the gifted specialist for a school in my district. I am beyond excited to begin this new journey. In preparation for my new job, I am taking another look at my Scholarly Behavior posters I made last year. I added some captions for each poster and finally uploaded them to TpT. You can find them here. These scholarly behaviors are based on the work of Dr. Sandra Kaplan. These are eleven different traits/skills that scholars should have or be able to do:

Academic humility
Intellectual risk-taking
Academic Preparation
Ponder Ideas
Intellectual curiosity
Save and organize ideas
Exercise Intellect
Goal-setting
Perseverance in learning
Use many and varied resources
Multiple perspectives

Last year I used them in my 4th grade math classroom a lot. At the beginning of the year, I introduced the behaviors from the very beginning. The first day of school I asked my students to complete a sheet that looked like this:

I asked students to think about the math with which they already feel confident. I wanted them to write those concepts in the glass. Then around the side I asked student to write down things they want to learn this year in math- expressing their intellectual curiosity.

We were departmentalized this past year in 4th grade and it was important that student knew what materials they needed for each class. We created this organizer to help them the first week. In each class, students wrote down the subject and what materials were needed for that specific class.

Another way I introduced the behaviors was by graphing pre-test data and talking about the behavior of goal-setting.

I also used Save and Organize Ideas when we set up interactive notebooks.

Throughout the year we referred to these scholarly behaviors a lot in all subject areas. My language arts teammate would refer to these behaviors when discussing how characters acted in certain stories or how famous people reacted to events in their lives when reading biographies. In all our classrooms, these posters hung in prominent locations and students referred to them often. Here are some sample pictures from the product.