All of the learning attributes are connected to one another, like a net.

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Some practices that can enrich this attribute in students are:

1. Asking questions insted of guiding the answer;

2. Stimulate their curiority on a variety of subjects;

3. Recognizing failure as part of the learning process;

4. Helping students to be more connected to real world events

5. Give them acess to a range of different books, videos, journals and more!

In school pratices that can enrich this attribute are:

1. Creating a wonder wall (or any specific space) that encorage students to document their questions or doubts;

2. Not giving straight answers when in face of a questions, instead, stimulate the collective inquiry;

3. Give the good and consistent feedback for their researches.

To stimulate this type of attribute inside of a classroom, you can:

1. Create a safe and respectful space were students can hear and talk;

2. Understant that the hability to listen to others is also communicative;

3. Know that oral communication is not the only way to be communucative;

4. Ask questions to explainwhat the student is saying;

5. Encorage students to speak out, even when they are uncertain of the accuracy of their thought.

Ways of encoraging this learning attribute is:

1. Encoraging students to solve their problems independently;

2. Ask open-minded questions;

3. Discuss real-life problems;

4. Ask the child questions when they are working on a problem.

Some practices that can help your students to be more open-minded are:

1. Exposing them to different cultures, opinions and life-styles;

2. Encoraging them to try on new foods, clothes, smells and textures;

3. Motivate the to listen to others.

In class practices that can help your students be more principled are:

1. Modeling integrity;

2. Encorage reflection;

3. Provide ethical dilemmas;

4. Create a safe enviroment.

We can encorage our students to be more reflecting by:

1. Implementing thinking routines such as: grow & glow, see, think, wonder and more!

2. Suggest they maintain a journal;

3. Having proper documentation of their progress.

We can help our students to be more balanced by:

1. Encoraging them to eat balanced meals;

2. Encoraging extra-curricular activities;

3. Setting realistic expectations;

4. Offering flexibility.

Ways you can help your students to be more caring include:

1. Modeling a caring posture;

2. Being an active listener;

3. Helping students to reduce, reuse and recycle;

4. Emphasizing social skills.

Usually, smaller children display a "natural" risk-taker behaviour, as being afraid of making mistakes is thought by adults. So, ways you can help student sustain their risk-taker attribute are:

1. Helping them understand mistakes are part of the learning process;

2. Give them opportunities to fell confident and brave;

3. Give them positive feedback when they show they've come out of their confort zone

4. NEVER force a child to do something they don't fell confortable with.