How does your child respond to difficulties?
Do they throw a tantrum, give up, or find ways to overcome challenges?
A child’s formative years are crucial for developing the behaviours, boundaries, and social skills that shape them for life. Beyond facts and knowledge, true education nurtures essential learning dispositions such as curiosity, perseverance, flexible thinking, and the ability to ask questions. These soft skills help children navigate challenges and build the foundations for future success in an increasingly complex world.
What is Habits of Mind?
Habits of Mind™, developed by Dr Arthur Costa, is a framework that helps children develop intelligent thinking dispositions for autonomous learning, critical thinking, and effective problem-solving.
Rather than focusing only on knowledge, it nurtures positive ways of thinking such as persistence, curiosity, creativity, and flexible thinking. These habits help children ask meaningful questions, navigate challenges confidently, interact with others, and apply their learning to everyday life and an ever-changing world.
While the Habits of Mind™ framework has long been adopted by Singapore’s Ministry of Education to groom the top 1% of students under its Gifted Education Programme, Li'lberry is the first and only preschool network globally certified by the Institute for Habits of Mind™.
How We Incorporate Habits of Mind™ in Our Curriculum
Teaching & Reinforcement
Each month, teachers introduce a new Habit of Mind™ through engaging, age-appropriate activities and memorable slogans. The habit is consistently reinforced during lessons, playtime, mealtimes, and everyday teachable moments.
Parental Involvement
We keep parents updated on their child’s progress and offer parenting workshops with practical strategies to reinforce these habits at home.
Environment
Our classrooms feature Habits of Mind™ displays and teachers model positive behaviours daily. Monthly HoM Little Ambassadors are also recognised for demonstrating these dispositions at school and at home.
We have specially curated 12 of the 16 Habits of Mind™ to nurture through our curriculum, daily routines, and everyday teachable moments.
