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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