Module 5 Introduction (Preview)

Outcomes

This module will help you teach your students to:

• use critical thinking to analyse ideas
• identify the key features and characteristics of important concepts
• create imaginative solutions and responses to problems
• compare, contrast and sequence information more effectively
• construct coherent lines of reasoning collaboratively as well as individually

Content

• Holistic education can be divided into critical, creative, caring, and collaborative thinking. Together, these can be referred to as the Four Cs of Thinking.
• Critical thinking is about wondering why.
• Creative thinking is about wondering if.
• Caring thinking is thinking about others.
• Collaborative thinking is thinking with others.
• These skills of thinking will maximise the usefulness of the Top Ten Pit Tools (problem-solving strategies that will help your students to construct meaning as they climb out of the Learning Pit.