Beginning Teacher's Guide Issue 1, May. 2014 | Page 2

Organising Elements

The Critical and creative thinking continuum is organised into four interrelated elements. These elements explain the different aspects of thinking and how they can be identified and integrated by teachers into their classrooms. Inquiring, generating ideas, possibilities and actions, reflecting on thinking and process, analysing, synthesising and evaluating information are the four elements used when organising the general capability Critical and Creative thinking, this is also demonstrated in the diagram bellow.

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We are currently preparing students for jobs that have not been invented yet, to use technology that is not available yet and to know things that we ourselves do not yet know