This element involves students reflecting on, adjusting and explaining their thinking and identifying the thinking behind choices, strategies and actions taken.
Students think about thinking (metacognition), reflect on actions and processes, and transfer knowledge into new contexts to create alternatives or open up possibilities. They apply knowledge gained in one context to clarify another. In developing and acting with critical and creative thinking, students:
- think about thinking (metacognition)
- reflect on processes
- transfer knowledge into new contexts.
Level 1
Typically by the end of Foundation Year, students:
Think about thinking (metacognition)
describe what they are thinking and give reasons why
Reflect on processes
identify the main elements of the steps in a thinking process
Transfer knowledge into new contexts
connect information from one setting to another
Level 2
Typically by the end of Year 2, students:
Think about thinking (metacognition)
describe the thinking strategies used in given situations and tasks
Reflect on processes
outline the details and sequence in a whole task and separate it into workable parts
Transfer knowledge into new contexts
use information from a previous experience to inform a new idea
Level 3
Typically by the end of Year 4, students:
Think about thinking (metacognition)
reflect on, explain and check the processes used to come to conclusions
Reflect on processes
identify pertinent information in an investigation and separate into smaller parts or ideas
Transfer knowledge into new contexts
transfer and apply information in one setting to enrich another