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• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level B achievement standards

  By the end of Level B, students use their senses and cause and effect to explore and understand the world around them. Students generate ideas based on their experiences and make choices in structured situations.

  Students begin to become aware of their own point of view through their emotions...

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

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level B description

  In Level B, the curriculum focuses on developing students understanding of the world around them, how to learn and solve everyday problems. Students become familiar with simple strategies to structure and understand the world and thinking. Students are exposed to thinking processes.

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking

• VCCCTM071

  Encounter everyday problems and learn how to solve them

  Elaborations

  • exploring objects and their appropriate use in structured situations
  • learning how to solve everyday problems through a set routine or process
  • learning to communicate their needs and request help

  VCCCTM071 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM069

  Use thinking to identify and express basic needs and linking objects to a label and purpose

  Elaborations

  • clarifying and simplifying communication of basic needs and wants, for example consistent yes/ no response, ways of gaining attention
  • beginning to use some objects purposefully and identify significant objects when named
  • exploring and modifying use of objects based on past experience and investigation in structured situations

  VCCCTM069 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM070

  Experience the learning strategies of visualisation and repetition

  Elaborations

  • practising and developing skills through routine activities and repetition
  • using visual strategies to assist in their learning
  • using learning strategies in structured learning experiences so they can be used in new and/or different situations

  VCCCTM070 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTQ065

  Generate ideas and solutions about everyday objects and experience

  Elaborations

  • exploring objects, their characteristics and purpose through structured explorations
  • learning routine solutions and actions to everyday programs and activities
  • developing ideas about objects, their name, purpose and use

  VCCCTQ065 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTQ064

  Use past experience to inform choice making and responses

  Elaborations

  • reacting to sensory input in the environment and using personal preference to make choices
  • beginning to match things that are the same and developing consistency in reactions and responses
  • becoming familiar with everyday routines and responding to basic familiar routines, environmental changes and people

  VCCCTQ064 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTQ063

  Explore questions about the world around them

  Elaborations

  • experiencing the sensory characteristics of familiar objects and exploring what is the same and different
  • actively exploring objects and materials in a wide variety of familiar contexts and structured environments
  • exploring the answer to questions related to their feelings and preferences in structured experiences and situations
  • answering questions by making choices and experiencing the consequences

  VCCCTQ063 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTR068

  Make connections about objects and their purpose and application

  Elaborations

  • using trial and error to play with or make something work
  • making choices from past experience
  • matching objects with their purpose and application

  VCCCTR068 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Reasoning

• VCCCTR066

  Experience reasoning and conclusions

  Elaborations

  • participating in routine experiences and experiencing teachers explaining reasons for courses of action
  • participating in structured activities which result in a conclusion being established
  • exploring objects and developing an understanding, idea and/or concept

  VCCCTR066 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Reasoning

• VCCCTR067

  Experience information and ideas by participating in routine experiences

  Elaborations

  • exploring the world around them by attempting different courses of actions
  • experiencing step by step activities and experiencing teachers explaining course of action
  • evaluating procedures and outcomes by experiencing the effect of their actions throughout daily activities
  • sharing ideas about what keeps you safe during routine experiences

  VCCCTR067 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Reasoning