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Level C (Towards Foundation)

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Critical and Creative Thinking

Critical and Creative Thinking Level Description

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.

Critical and Creative Thinking Content Descriptions

Questions and Possibilities

  1. Explore and answer who, what and where questions (VCCCTQ072)
  2. Explore how past experience influences thinking and reactions to situations (VCCCTQ073)
  3. Explore and investigate ideas and solutions (VCCCTQ074)

Reasoning

  1. Create conclusions based on exploration (VCCCTR075)
  2. Apply reasoning to routine tasks and identify their feelings about their work, action or the consequences of a choice (VCCCTR076)
  3. Express preferences drawing on past experiences and everyday examples (VCCCTR077)

Meta-Cognition

  1. Express their thinking by reflecting on what they know and communicating their emotions (VCCCTM078)
  2. Use some learning strategies to demonstrate their learning and thinking (VCCCTM079)
  3. Investigate everyday problems and exploring possible solutions and their outcomes (VCCCTM080)

Critical and Creative Thinking Achievement Standard

By the end of Level C, students answer simple questions about familiar events and topics. They identify a familiar idea or experience with support and make choices from a range of options.

Students can identify their own point of view. They use personal experience and examples to explain reasons. They connect present and past experience with support.

Students predict what will happen next in a familiar routine. They practice some learning strategies including following a visual schedule. Students demonstrate some problem-solving approaches when faced with common everyday issues.