VCCCTR038 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 7 and 8 | Reasoning
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
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
VCCCTR046 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 9 and 10 | Reasoning
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
VCCCTQ056 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A | Questions and Possibilities
By the end of Level 10, students construct and evaluate questions, including their own, for their effectiveness. They demonstrate a willingness to shift their perspective when generating ideas, resulting in new ways of perceiving solutions.
Students structure complex valid arguments. They explain...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 9 and 10
VCCCTR084 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Reasoning
VCCCTM053 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 9 and 10 | Meta-Cognition
VCCCTR059 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A | Reasoning
By the end of Level 8, students prioritise the elements of a question and justify their selection. Students demonstrate flexibility in thinking by using a range of techniques in order to repurpose existing ideas or solutions to meet needs in new contexts.
Students explain different ways to settle...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 4, students explain how to construct open and closed questions and use them for different purposes. Students select and apply techniques to generate a range of ideas that extend how problems are solved.
Students describe and structure arguments with clearly identified aims,...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4
By the end of Level 6, students apply questioning as a tool to focus or expand thinking. They use appropriate techniques to copy, borrow and compare aspects of existing solutions in order to identify relationships and apply these to new situations.
Students distinguish between valid and sound...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6
VCCCTM070 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition
VCCCTM031 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Meta-Cognition
VCCCTQ065 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Questions and Possibilities
VCCCTQ074 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Questions and Possibilities
VCCCTQ064 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Questions and Possibilities
VCCCTR058 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A | Reasoning
VCNRU016 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Language variation and change