Learning Continuum of Critical and Creative Thinking (Version 8.4)

This element involves students creating ideas and actions, and considering and expanding on known actions and ideas.

Students imagine possibilities and connect ideas through considering alternatives, seeking solutions and putting ideas into action. They explore situations and generate alternatives to guide actions and experiment with and assess options and actions when seeking solutions. In developing and acting with critical and creative thinking, students:

  • imagine possibilities and connect ideas
  • consider alternatives
  • seek solutions and put ideas into action.

Level 6

Typically by the end of Year 10, students:

Imagine possibilities and connect ideas

create and connect complex ideas using imagery, analogies and symbolism

Consider alternatives

speculate on creative options to modify ideas when circumstances change

Seek solutions and put ideas into action

assess risks and explain contingencies, taking account of a range of perspectives, when seeking solutions and putting complex ideas into action