Scholarly Behavior

Scholarly Behavior

The following ideas, suggestions, and the like are from the work of Dr. Sandra Kaplan - USC School of Education

* Scholars spend time pondering ideas and problems.

* Scholars consider themselves "half full". They exercise academic humility by realizing that they will always have more to learn.

* Scholars have both short and long term goals for themselves.  They have a vision.

* Scholars come prepared to learn.  They bring their tools with them and are ready with "minds on".

* Scholars save ideas, documents, and unfinished work so that they may come back to them later.

* Scholars are curious. They ask thoughtful questions.

* Scholars look at a variety of resources.  They may include both fiction and nonfiction, and include different genres of literature in their research.

* Scholars exercise their intellect by trying challenging tasks.

* Scholars are risk-takers.  They are willing to try something new and difficult.

 

 

Something to keep in mind.... Intelligent does not equal intellectual.

Speaking Scholarly.......

According to.....

All evidence indicates that.....

If________, then __________

I agree/disagree with _____ because.....

Another way to discuss or analyze this could be......

A different hypothesis might be....

Characteristics of a Scholar (pdf file)
Scholars exhibit certain characteristics of behaving. Students look at Icons that represent certain behaviors to identify which behavior is evident. Students then prove with evidence from a text, conversation, etc.that the characteristic is present

Scholarliness (pdf file)
Picture of Scholarly Man. Scholarly behavior Icons are placed in the figure. Students, for example, looking at a variety of biographies determine and prove with evidence whether or not the biographical person being studied exhibits these traits.

Scholarly Questions / Key ?'s Native American Report (pdf file)

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