Critical & Creative Thinking Capability
Capability Aims |
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| Students develop understanding of thinking processes and an ability to manage and apply these intentionally.
Students develop skills and learning dispositions that support logical, strategic, flexible and adventurous thinking. Students develop confidence in evaluating thinking and thinking processes across a range of familiar and unfamiliar contexts. |
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Questions & Possibilities Reasoning Meta-Cognition |
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Questions & Possibilities |
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| Investigate the characteristics of effective questions in different contexts to examine information and test possibilities.
Challenge previously held assumptions by investigating ideas that provoke shifts in perspectives and cross boundaries to generate ideas and solutions. |
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Reasoning |
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| Examine how to identify and analyse suppressed premises and assumptions.Investigate the nature and use of counter examples structured as arguments. | |
Meta-Cognition |
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| Critically examine own and others thinking processes and discuss factors that influence thinking, including cognitive biases.
Investigate how the use of a range of learning strategies can be monitored, evaluated and re-directed as necessary. |
Achievement Standards – by the end of Level 10. |
Questions & Possibilities |
| Students construct and evaluate questions, including their own, for their effectiveness.
Students demonstrate a willingness to shift their perspective when generating ideas, resulting in new ways of perceiving solutions. |
Reasoning |
| Students structure complex valid arguments. |
Meta-Cognition |
| Students identify, articulate and reflect on their own and others thinking processes.
Students use, monitor, evaluate and redirect as necessary a range of learning strategies. |