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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

• Personal and Social Capability: Level D achievement standards

  By the end of Level D, students can name emotional responses and identify the cause of emotions. They can identify some characteristics of self. They use cues and prompts to solve simple problems.

  Students can identify people associated with particular events and routines. They attend to and...

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

• Personal and Social Capability: Level D description

  In Level D, the curriculum focuses on enabling students to learn how to be socially perceptive. Students learn to guide their behaviour across a range of familiar situations. They learn to adhere to class practice, offer assistance, share, initiate activities and regulate emotional expression.

  Stu...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability

• 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

• VCPSCSE075

  Identify situations that could be a problem or challenge and discuss relevant self-help skills

  Elaborations

  • expressing and communicating their feelings, needs and choices in increasingly appropriate ways
  • showing a readiness and willingness to be taught how to do some things not yet learned or tried
  • seeking help when they cannot solve a problem or challenge, or when a peer needs help

  VCPSCSE075 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level D | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCPSCSE073

  Name a range of emotions and describe how these are expressed or shown

  Elaborations

  • using a range of emotions that are shown in a person’s facial expression
  • explaining generalised causes of own emotions
  • regulating facial, bodily and vocal expression of emotion for own benefit or the benefit of others
  • differentiating emotional responses and demonstrating an awareness of the causes and effects of emotional reactions

  VCPSCSE073 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level D | Self-Awareness and Management | Recognition and expression of emotions

• VCPSCSE074

  Identify characteristics of self and share their likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • naming and responding to questions about self, for example age, gender
  • naming or labelling familiar people, objects and places
  • recalling personal experiences and facts about a topic of interest when supported through guided questioning

  VCPSCSE074 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level D | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCPSCSO076

  Categorise familiar people and members of their family and class

  Elaborations

  • naming self, family members and classmates from a photograph
  • seeking a consistent friendship group or person during recreation and class group work and identifying own ‘friends’ when asked
  • identifying people associated with particular events and routines

  VCPSCSO076 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level D | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCPSCSO078

  Respond to others in group situations, playing or working in a small group cooperatively

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating some basic rules of cooperation, for example, sharing and taking turns appropriately
  • cooperating with others when working or playing in groups
  • showing an understanding of sharing with regard to personal belongings, class items and resources

  VCPSCSO078 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level D | Social Awareness and Management | Collaboration

• VCPSCSO077

  Work with various peers, including participating in an activity they didn’t like

  Elaborations

  • cooperating with others when working or playing in groups
  • implementing some self-help skills when attempting to complete a task they didn’t like
  • developing some simple strategies to work with new team members

  VCPSCSO077 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level D | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCPSCSO079

  Demonstrate some understanding that negative words and actions are hurtful and that their behaviour can impact on others

  Elaborations

  • using peer behaviour as a cue for own behaviour showing both positive and negative reactions
  • demonstrating an understanding that their behaviour can impact on others
  • regulate own behaviour and emotional expression in familiar contexts
  • sharing how it feels when other people use negative words or actions

  VCPSCSO079 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level D | Social Awareness and Management | Collaboration