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Unpacking the content descriptions, Reasoning strand
These resources provide guidance on how curriculum content from the Reasoning strand of Critical and Creative Thinking can be unpacked for students. The resources contain sample key ideas and concepts plus suggestions for learning activities aligned to each content description and the identified linked achievement standard.
Critical and Creative Thinking – Reasoning, Unpacking the content descriptions: Foundation to Level 6
Critical and Creative Thinking – Reasoning, Unpacking the content descriptions: Levels 7–10
Critical and Creative Thinking and Visual Arts sample learning activities, Levels 3–10
This resource is designed to illustrate how artworks can be used to teach both Visual Arts and Critical and Creative Thinking. A range of Critical and Creative Thinking and Visual Arts content descriptions from Levels 3 and 4 to Levels 9 and 10 are unpacked through sample learning activities based around particular artworks and artists. These activities could be used to support explicit teaching and/or consolidation of learning.
Critical and Creative Thinking and Visual Arts activities, Levels 3–10
External resources
This annotated list of classroom resources illustrates the kind of resources that can be used when designing teaching and learning activities for Critical and Creative Thinking.
The listed classroom resources range from classic picture books such as
The Very Cranky Bear and online interactive games for students, to lesson plans, journal articles and videos that can be used as teacher reference. Each resource is aligned to one or more Critical and Creative Thinking strands. The resources can be used as a stimulus for explicit teaching of at least one of the content descriptions within the strand.
Critical and Creative Thinking – a selection of classroom resources, Foundation to Level 10
The following external links are for teacher reference purposes. They do not constitute VCAA endorsement of the views or materials contained on these sites.
External links
Centre for Real-World Learning (The University of Winchester)
The Centre for Real World Learning focuses on approaches to teaching and learning that impact the development of positive learning dispositions in learners. The site provides links to all its published documents, team members, and ways to get in touch. ‘Progression in Creativity: Developing new forms of assessment’ – an OECD paper by Professor Bill Lucas et al. is available
here.
Expansive Education Network
The Expansive Education Network is a group of organisations, universities, schools, colleges, and individual teachers whose approach to teaching and learning develops life-long learners.
Project Zero (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Project Zero includes investigations applicable to education into the nature of intelligence, understanding, thinking, creativity, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural thinking, and ethics.
Visible Learning
This website brings together the freely available online resources related to John Hattie’s Visible Learning research (videos, research papers, books and news articles), to enable a deeper understanding of the underlying concepts.
Visible Learning plus is a professional development program for teachers that explores how evidence can be used to create innovation in the learning environment. This program is focused on John Hattie’s research and the principles of Visible Learning and visible teaching.