critical thinking skills to assess the validity of given information, creativity to explore other possibilities, and problem solving skills to examine the feasibility of each alternative. The expected achievements of the students in holistic thinking skills are classified according to different levels of mastery. Students will learn to Developing Mastering Beginning Critical Thinking: enquiring and assessing ask questions to explore matters that pose questions to explore issues related to pose questions that probe complex and attract interest their immediate contexts abstract ideas about issues beyond local context and contemporary period identify main ideas and clarify meaning comprehend complementary and in information contradictory information synthesise points from complementary and contradictory information Creativity: generating come up with new ideas by linking draw parallels between and new generate a large number of raw ideas imagination and reality scenarios and use ideas, patterns and trends combine good ideas to make even better to consider new possibilities create analogies by matching two ideas ideas produce alternative or unconventional brainstorm suggestions use existing knowledge in a novel way solutions temporarily suspend pragmatic and suspend judgement to consider alternative rational thinking to allow new possibilities ideas and actions to emerge Developing Mastering Beginning Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: analysing and comparing
critical thinking skills to assess the validity of given information, creativity to explore other possibilities, and problem solving skills to examine the feasibility of each alternative. The expected achievements of the students in holistic thinking skills are classified according to different levels of mastery. Students will learn to Beginning Developing Mastering Critical Thinking: enquiring and assessing ask questions to explore matters that attract interest identify main ideas and clarify meaning in information pose questions to explore issues related to their immediate contexts comprehend complementary and contradictory information pose questions that probe complex and abstract ideas about issues beyond local context and contemporary period synthesise points from complementary and contradictory information Creativity: generating come up with new ideas by linking imagination and reality create analogies by matching two ideas brainstorm suggestions draw parallels between and new scenarios and use ideas, patterns and trends to consider new possibilities produce alternative or unconventional solutions suspend judgement to consider alternative ideas and actions generate a large number of raw ideas combine good ideas to make even better ideas use existing knowledge in a novel way temporarily suspend pragmatic and rational thinking to allow new possibilities to emerge Beginning Developing Mastering Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: analysing and comparing
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