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• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level C achievement standards

  By the end of Level C, students answer simple questions about familiar events and topics. They identify a familiar idea or experience with support and make choices from a range of options.

  Students can identify their own point of view. They use personal experience and examples to explain reasons...

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level C description

  In Level C, the curriculum focuses on developing the skills to reason, problem solve and learn. Students become familiar with simple strategies to structure thinking and solve problems. Students explore how thinking can be made explicit.

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking

• Personal and Social Capability: Level C achievement standards

  By the end of Level C, students can recognise some key emotions and identify events or people that impact on these feelings. They can complete some familiar tasks unaided and try some new activities.

  Students identify and name some class members and familiar adults. They follow simple rules...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level C

• Personal and Social Capability: Level C description

  In Level C, this curriculum focuses on enabling students to be socially active. Students are becoming peer focused and learning how to actively interact with peers. Students are learning to name and respond to emotions.

  Students are learning about their personal preferences. They are learning...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability

• VCCCTM080

  Investigate everyday problems and exploring possible solutions and their outcomes

  Elaborations

  • learning to have a go at something new or different and persevere when they have a problem before seeking help
  • using simple strategies and learnt processes to address routine problems and situations
  • identifying a problem and possible solutions from a range of options

  VCCCTM080 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM079

  Use some learning strategies to demonstrate their learning and thinking

  Elaborations

  • sequencing images to recall key events or everyday routines
  • following step by step instruction/ images to complete tasks
  • using repetition and visuals to understand and solve problems

  VCCCTM079 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM078

  Express their thinking by reflecting on what they know and communicating their emotions

  Elaborations

  • sequencing key steps in routine events using images
  • showing pride in work and achievements by showing others what they have done
  • reflecting on a recent event and indicating their basic emotional response and what they liked/disliked

  VCCCTM078 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTQ074

  Explore and investigate ideas and solutions

  Elaborations

  • exploring possibilities and ideas through structured learning
  • developing ideas and solutions about everyday objects through inquiry and investigation
  • modifying ideas and thinking based on structured investigating

  VCCCTQ074 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTQ072

  Explore and answer who, what and where questions

  Elaborations

  • answering who, what and where questions posed by a teacher as they explore a wide variety of familiar contexts in structured situations
  • answering questions using yes/ no responses
  • using past experience to answer simple questions related to objects in the room
  • exploring familiar objects, events and topic

  VCCCTQ072 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTQ073

  Explore how past experience influences thinking and reactions to situations

  Elaborations

  • using everyday problems and situations to explore personal reactions to situations and how this can affect their response
  • exploring how prior knowledge and past experience can be used to make predictions and understand the world around them
  • exploring how prior knowledge and past experience can be used to solve problems

  VCCCTQ073 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTR077

  Express preferences drawing on past experiences and everyday examples

  Elaborations

  • responding to a real-life scenario and demonstrating preferences and how you would make a choice between objects and events
  • using images and objects to demonstrate their preferences
  • selecting an object from a group and explain why this one was chosen

  VCCCTR077 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Reasoning

• VCCCTR075

  Create conclusions based on exploration

  Elaborations

  • communicating their discoveries and understandings from investigations and learning experiences
  • assisting to create conclusions about investigations and problem solving activities
  • indicating choices and how a decision can be made when selecting one

  VCCCTR075 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Reasoning

• VCCCTR076

  Apply reasoning to routine tasks and identify their feelings about their work, action or the consequences of a choice

  Elaborations

  • completing a familiar task, using objects appropriately based on past experience
  • using past knowledge to guess what an object is and what it is for
  • drawing conclusions and designing a course of action by following a visual schedule or sequence

  VCCCTR076 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Reasoning

• VCPSCSE066

  Name emotions shown by self and match these emotions to familiar events or experiences

  Elaborations

  • using words, signs or symbols to name emotions of self or others
  • responding to the emotions of others and indicating the immediate and present causes of other’s emotional reactions
  • matching emotion to a recent familiar event or experience

  VCPSCSE066 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level C | Self-Awareness and Management | Recognition and expression of emotions

• VCPSCSE067

  Change, accept and reject things based on their personal preference

  Elaborations

  • producing responses to specific people and objects based on experience and preference
  • trying a variety of learning activities and developing personal preferences
  • expressing feelings about learning activities

  VCPSCSE067 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level C | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCPSCSE068

  Try a variety of activities and completing some steps in a set routine independently

  Elaborations

  • independently carry out simple, familiar activities and using cues from others to work out next movement in a familiar routine
  • learning to follow adult prompts to stop external and internal distractions
  • making choices about learning activities

  VCPSCSE068 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level C | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCPSCSO071

  Follow basic social rules regarding the sharing and care of property and social expectations regarding behaviour

  Elaborations

  • greeting and interacting with others during play and class activities
  • using property safely, demonstrating and identifying some acceptable ways of behaving
  • working cooperatively, taking turns and sharing some items

  VCPSCSO071 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level C | Social Awareness and Management | Collaboration

• VCPSCSO070

  Follow adult directions to intentionally participate in class activities and follow rules and routines

  Elaborations

  • controlling impulses during structured activities
  • using property safely and playing fairly with peers during structured activities
  • developing greeting skills
  • responding to a teacher’s instructions and completing a set task

  VCPSCSO070 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level C | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCPSCSO072

  Identify reactions and solutions to familiar social problems in supported situations

  Elaborations

  • developing skills to contribute, give compliments, and listen to the opinions of others during supported collaborative activities
  • following simple rules during collaborative activities
  • working with various peers when requested by a teacher

  VCPSCSO072 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level C | Social Awareness and Management | Collaboration

• VCPSCSO069

  Identify familiar adults and explore groups they belong to

  Elaborations

  • greeting people they know
  • initiating interactions with preferred fellow students

  VCPSCSO069 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level C | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity