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• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level D achievement standards

  By the end of Level D, students answer simple questions related to their own investigation, their feelings or concept. They identify and describe an event or scientific experiment. They generate ideas based on past experience and make choices based on their personal preferences.

  Students can...

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

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level D description

  In Level D, the curriculum focuses on developing the knowledge and skills to express reasons, to problem solve and learn more effectively. Students become familiar with simple strategies to structure and improve thinking. Students learn how thinking can be made explicit.

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking

• VCCCTM089

  Investigate problems and begin to identify different prospects and possible solutions

  Elaborations

  • exploring trial and error sequences and learning how to try again
  • investigating different people’s roles and feelings in structured situations
  • beginning to identify how they think and that other people may think/ feel differently

  VCCCTM089 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM087

  Experience ways to express their thinking, including expression of ideas and feelings about learning

  Elaborations

  • persisting when trying something new or solving a problem and attempting different ideas and solutions
  • reflecting on knowledge and learning and communicating what is new
  • initiating how they feel about different learning experiences and what they found hard
  • reflecting on their work and indicating when they are finished, how they have improved and what they are proud of

  VCCCTM087 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM088

  Explore learning strategies required to address everyday problems and situations

  Elaborations

  • learning what learning strategies to use in a range of common situations
  • learning a variety of strategies they can use to solve common problems
  • practising and using learning strategies, for example thinking aloud, planning, brainstorming

  VCCCTM088 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTQ081

  Pose questions to gather information

  Elaborations

  • exploring a wide variety of familiar contexts and with encouragement and support, they wonder, question and become adventurous in their thinking about these contexts
  • posing questions when prompted by teacher to investigate information and ideas
  • exploring how different question stems (who, what, when, why) elicit different types of information

  VCCCTQ081 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTQ082

  Investigate how past experience influences thinking and reactions to situations and problems

  Elaborations

  • exploring similarities and differences in personal reactions to situations and problems
  • exploring problems and the various action/ options, and their preference
  • mapping reactions and thinking to situations and problems and exploring the link between reaction and thinking

  VCCCTQ082 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTQ083

  Generate different ideas and possibilities

  Elaborations

  • brainstorming ideas and solutions and investigating and evaluating them in structured situations
  • investigating situations, possible solutions and consequence
  • generating some different ideas and possibilities to problems and situations

  VCCCTQ083 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTR086

  Use examples and past experience to illustrate understanding and point of view

  Elaborations

  • drawing conclusions and designing a course of action by acting out and identifying alternatives with teacher support
  • evaluating procedures and outcomes by investigating whether their work sounds and works right or makes sense with teacher support
  • identifying the main ideas and concepts developed as the result activity or investigation

  VCCCTR086 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Reasoning

• VCCCTR085

  Identify own reasoning and explore ideas, information and options with others

  Elaborations

  • identifying the elements of a problem which is broken down by a teacher and comparing feelings and solutions
  • identifying what they are thinking and their decision while attempting to solve a problem when prompted
  • identifying what they think about two possible actions from a field and possible consequences

  VCCCTR085 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Reasoning

• VCCCTR084

  Explore reasons and conclusions through investigation

  Elaborations

  • recording their understanding through images and words
  • beginning to explain the reasons for their choice, conclusion or decision
  • exploring and investigating and establishing ideas and understandings during and at the conclusion of this process

  VCCCTR084 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Reasoning