Abstract Habits of Mind (HoM) consisting of critical thinking, creative thinking, and self regulation is one way to build the character of students. The course syntax of scaffolding learning model consisting of orientation phase, training, task support, conceptual and procedural scaffolding, and metacognition and strategy scaffolding was discovered. This study aims to improve habits of mind students through scaffolding learning model. This research involves 96 participants of Physics Education Students taking Waves and Optic course, 46 students in the experimental class and 50 students in the control class. The research design used qualitative and quantitative data as mixed methods analysis. The results show that improving habits of mind students (critical thinking, creative thinking, and self regulation) in medium category. Keyword: scaffolding, learning model, habits of mind,