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• Capabilities | Ethical Capability: Learning in Ethical Capability

  The Ethical capability curriculum focuses on the conceptual and analytical skills necessary for informed deliberation on ethical issues. This curriculum enables students to identify the assumptions and implications of different ethical positions, recognising the areas of contestability within...

  Overview material | Ethical Capability

• 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

• VCCCTM061

  Experience the implementation of learning strategies and use of repetition in their learning experiences

  Elaborations

  • reacting to repetition in their everyday routines
  • encountering adults’ modelling strategies and reasoning – using a think aloud
  • learning how to communicate their needs to others in the same way

  VCCCTM061 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM070

  Experience the learning strategies of visualisation and repetition

  Elaborations

  • practising and developing skills through routine activities and repetition
  • using visual strategies to assist in their learning
  • using learning strategies in structured learning experiences so they can be used in new and/or different situations

  VCCCTM070 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM071

  Encounter everyday problems and learn how to solve them

  Elaborations

  • exploring objects and their appropriate use in structured situations
  • learning how to solve everyday problems through a set routine or process
  • learning to communicate their needs and request help

  VCCCTM071 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCNRC043

  Create bilingual texts and learning resources for the school community

  Elaborations

  • creating simple bilingual texts in print or digital form for specific audiences, such as school signs for visitors, invitations to parents for class or school events, posters for the school community to advertise an upcoming event, online bilingual story books including text and images for a younger audience, or a bilingual game, such as Snap, using words only
  • creating and posting versions of existing school signs or notices into the language, for example, staffroom, canteen, recognising difference in word order
  • constructing and maintaining a bilingual website for a sister school or a contact group of young learners of English in a target language-speaking community
  • creating a word bank which includes words, phrases and common expressions, as a classroom resource to reinforce learning

  VCNRC043 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Translating

• VCNRC045

  Share experiences of learning and using the language being studied, and reflect on the effect of language learning on own identity

  Elaborations

  • preparing a class profile to exchange with students who speak the language being studied, showing language backgrounds and interests represented in the class, using captions and symbols such as flags and words from different languages
  • exploring the idea of stereotypes associated with languages and identities, and discussing how stereotypes affect attitudes and communication and can be inaccurate
  • exploring how their linguistic and cultural background, for example, languages spoken, key relationships and intercultural experiences, influence their sense of who they are
  • connecting various personal experiences of learning the language, and describing how learning the language has influenced own everyday behaviour and language use, for example, using the language outside the language classroom
  • considering whether learning and using the language impacts on their sense of identity either in or out of the classroom

  VCNRC045 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Reflecting

• 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

• Personal and Social Capability: Level C description

  In Level C, this curriculum focuses on enabling students to be socially active. Students are becoming peer focused and learning how to actively interact with peers. Students are learning to name and respond to emotions.

  Students are learning about their personal preferences. They are learning...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability

• VCCCTM052

  Investigate how the use of a range of learning strategies can be monitored, evaluated and re-directed as necessary

  Elaborations

  • completing a journal to monitor and evaluate two strategies for a learning challenge and reflecting on what was effective and how they could be used in the future
  • using given scenarios and famous quotes to reflect on the concepts of failure and persistence in relation to learning and learning strategies

  VCCCTM052 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 9 and 10 | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM030

  Examine learning strategies, including constructing analogies, visualising ideas, summarising and paraphrasing information and reflect on the application of these strategies in different situations

  Elaborations

  • constructing an analogy to assist in learning, for example, the analogy of a park to represent some Australian landscapes at the time of First Contact, and reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses of the analogy
  • discussing when to summarise or paraphrase as a learning strategy and constructing questions to help guide the decision

  VCCCTM030 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM007

  Consider ways to express and describe thinking activity, including the expression of feelings about learning, both to others and self

  Elaborations

  • identifying words to describe learning experiences, for example ‘learning looks like/sounds like/feels like’
  • drawing and displaying pictures or symbols to represent the meaning of words associated with thinking activities such as ‘watching, wondering, finding, trying’

  VCCCTM007 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Foundation to Level 2 | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM041

  Examine a range of learning strategies and how to select strategies that best meet the requirements of a task

  Elaborations

  • discussing suitable learning strategies and how they should be used, for example when, why and how feedback should be sought and given
  • reflecting on a learning strategy recently used and setting a goal for the future

  VCCCTM041 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 7 and 8 | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM008

  Explore some learning strategies, including planning, repetition, rewording, memorisation and use of mnemonics

  Elaborations

  • composing a simple song or rhyme to assist learning new words, such as greetings in another language
  • practising an oral presentation by intentionally rehearsing small parts of the presentation often

  VCCCTM008 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Foundation to Level 2 | Meta-Cognition

• 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

• 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

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Levels 3 and 4 description

  In Levels 3 and 4, the curriculum focuses on developing the knowledge, skills and understanding to improve and monitor thinking. Students learn and consider the advantages of different thinking techniques. Students learn there are different ways to respond to problems, visualise thinking and think...

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking

• VCCCTM019

  Examine an increased range of learning strategies, including visualisation, note-taking, peer instruction and incubation, and reflect on how these can be applied to different tasks to reach a goal

  Elaborations

  • discussing different uses of visualisation as a learning strategy, for example to improve learning of a process or technique, to clarify a goal or to improve concentration
  • experimenting with allowing different times between practising spelling lists and reflecting on what was more effective

  VCCCTM019 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4 | Meta-Cognition

• Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking: Learning in Critical and Creative Thinking

  The Critical and Creative Thinking capability focuses on the development of increasingly complex and sophisticated processes of thinking. Critical and creative thinking processes are fundamental to effective learning across the curriculum. The knowledge and skills set out in this capability should...

  Overview material | Critical and Creative Thinking