1. Thinking
A key competency

2. New Zealand Curriculum – 5 key competencies
Thinking
Using language, symbols and texts
Managing self
Relating to others
Participating and contributing

3. 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.

4. Thinking strategies must be:
Easy to use
Able to be modelled in normal classroom environment

5. 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.

6. It is important for all students to have opportunities to develop thinking ability if they are to function in an increasingly complex world.

7. “Intelligence is, to some degree, learnable”

8. By Bethany and Alice