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• Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking: Scope and Sequence

  The curriculum sets out what students are expected to learn and is designed as a continuum of learning. The curriculum is being presented in a scope and sequence chart to support teachers to easily see the progression and assist in planning teaching and learning programs to meet the diverse needs...

  Overview material | Critical and Creative Thinking

• Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking: Structure

  Critical and Creative Thinking is organised into three interrelated strands: Questions and Possibilities, Reasoning and Meta-Cognition.

  Strands	Questions and Possibilities	Reasoning	Meta-Cognition
  	Explore the nature of questioning and a range of processes and techniques to develop ideas	Explore...

  Overview material | Critical and Creative Thinking

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• VCCCTM009

  Investigate ways to problem-solve, using egocentric and experiential language

  Elaborations

  • discussing sequencing of steps as a problem-solving approach in response to a ‘how do I…?’ problem, and experimenting with different sequences
  • using number sentences as a problem-solving approach to solve a worded problem involving quantities, and thinking out loud to a partner while constructing these sentences, for example ‘I want to know how many farm animals have escaped. I can see that…’

  VCCCTM009 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Foundation to Level 2 | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTQ012

  Investigate different techniques to sort facts and extend known ideas to generate novel and imaginative ideas

  Elaborations

  • using a table to compare observable features of living, non-living and once living things; creating a checklist of what makes something living; and using the table and checklist to imagine a new living creature
  • using a technique such as ‘SCAMPER’ to generate novel ideas for the use of particular objects, for example adapting an object originally intended for cooking to be a musical instrument
  • exploring the technique of breaking down a movement sequence into its smaller parts and then rethinking the combination of those parts when creating a new movement sequence
  • exploring strategies to determine the strength of rules to explain patterns of numbers or shapes

  VCCCTQ012 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTM042

  Consider how problems can be segmented into discrete stages, new knowledge synthesised during problem-solving and criteria used to assess emerging ideas and proposals

  Elaborations

  • discussing common stages in problem-solving or inquiry and proposing and justifying a particular sequence, for example for a fieldwork investigation
  • adjusting problem-solving in light of new knowledge, for example finding evidence of vested interests in collected sources
  • identifying an appropriate type of investigation, for example experimentation, fieldwork, or research of secondary sources and planning each of its stages, with annotations to justify the proposed plan

  VCCCTM042 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 7 and 8 | Meta-Cognition

• VCNRC035

  Initiate interactions and exchange information with peers, describing feelings and preferences, aspects of daily life, school, friends and hobbies

  Elaborations

  • asking and responding to questions to exchange information about shared interests, hobbies or friends
  • sharing experiences and feelings, such as weekend activities and likes/dislikes using set phrases
  • using communication strategies such as active listening skills, turn-taking cues and requests for clarification or more detail to support the exchange of information
  • comparing routines, interests and hobbies, using language associated with time, sequence and location

  VCNRC035 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Socialising

• VCCCTQ023

  Identify and form links and patterns from multiple information sources to generate non-routine ideas and possibilities

  Elaborations

  • discussing how looking for factors such as underlying skills, causes, or processes can assist in finding links across apparently unconnected sources
  • examining the approach to a particular problem in multiple sources and looking for patterns in approaches, for example in creating a text comparing written, spoken and multi-modal sources for patterns in how they represent a particular aesthetic effect or emotion
  • exploring arts works from a particular movement unfamiliar to them, identifying links between the works to identify the style, and creating their own work using that style
  • when creating a new game, exploring a comparison of invasion game movements as a strategy to construct a new movement sequence

  VCCCTQ023 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Questions and Possibilities