Challenge and Grow Curriculum – Thinking and Acting

Students will learn to think clearly, rationally and logically when challenged.

Personal and Social Capability

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Understand themselves as learners. 

(Self-Awareness)

 discuss their strengths and weaknesses as learners and identify some learning strategies to assist them identify and describe factors and strategies that assist their learning identify preferred learning styles and work habits identify and choose a range of learning strategies appropriate to specific tasks and describe work practices that assist their learning evaluate the effectiveness of commonly used learning strategies and work practices and refine these as required
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describing how practicing a skill improves performanceEnglish ACELY1667

Science ACSSU030

 keeping a journal of their learning, describing both positive and negative experiences identifying their preference as a visual, auditory or kinesthetic learner choosing strategies that capitalize on and expand their strengths and preferred learning styles developing personal learning plans that identify effective study techniques
Make decisions. 

(Social management)

 practice individual and group decision making in situations such as class meetings and when working in pairs and small groups contribute to and predict the consequences of group decisions in a range of situations identify factors that influence decision making and consider the usefulness of these in making their own decisions assess individual and group decision-making processes in challenging situations develop and apply criteria to evaluate the outcomes of individual and group decisions and analyse the consequences of their decision making
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naming roles and responsibilities in class meetings and identifying fair methods for choosing people for these roles deciding how to share resources for a learning task and forecasting the outcomes of options identifying the people, events and situations that influence how decisions are made using scientific, ethical, economic and social arguments to make decisions regarding personal and community issues explaining how a change in a social policy could affect individuals and groups

Critical and Creative Thinking

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Critical and Creative Thinking(Generating ideas, possibilities and Actions)

 

Consider alternatives

 identify and compare creative ideas to think broadly about a given situation or problem explore situations using creative thinking strategies to propose a range of alternatives identify situations where current approaches do not work, challenge existing ideas and generate alternative solutions generate alternatives and innovative solutions, and adapt ideas, including when information is limited or conflicting speculate on creative options to modify ideas when circumstances change
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considering ways of conserving water in their environment asking ‘What if..?’ when conducting an investigation examining the environmental impact of transporting goods negotiating a solution to a community dispute submitting designed and developed ideas or products for further investigation

Ethical Understanding

  Year 1/2 Year 3/4 Year 5/6 Year 7/8 Year 9/10
Consider consequences. 

(Reasoning in decision making and actions)

 describe the effects that personal feelings and dispositions have on how people behave examine the links between emotions, dispositions and intended and unintended consequences of their actions on others evaluate the consequences of actions in familiar and hypothetical scenarios investigate scenarios that highlight ways that personal dispositions and actions can affect consequences analyse the objectivity or subjectivity behind decision making where there are many possible consequences
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discussing the consequences of keeping or not keeping promises, or being truthful or untruthful  examining what it means to cause people to feel let down 

 

 assessing possible consequences of including or excluding a person or group  examining the effects of tolerance on relationships or of misrepresentations in social media or reporting  exploring the complexities associated with sharing or violating resources