Thinking A key competency
New Zealand Curriculum – 5 key competencies Thinking Using language, symbols and texts Managing self Relating to others Participating and contributing
Thinking: using creative, critical, metacognitive and reflective processes to make sense of and question information, experiences, and ideas Students who are well-developed thinkers can reflect on their own learning, ask questions and challenge assumptions and perceptions.
Thinking strategies must be: Easy to use Able to be modelled in normal classroom environment
It is important that teachers do not end up doing all the thinking for students. Students need to have opportunities and need to be able to make and learn from mistakes.
It is important for all students to have opportunities to develop thinking ability if they are to function in an increasingly complex world.
“Intelligence is, to some degree, learnable”
By Bethany and Alice