Critical and reflective thinking is a Core Competency of BC’s curriculum and can be developed through STEAM activities that embrace design thinking challenges and inquiry opportunities.
What is Critical and Reflective Thinking?
Critical and reflective thinking encompasses a set of abilities that students use to examine their own thinking and that of others.
Analyzing and Critiquing
Students learn to analyze and make judgments. They reflect to consider purpose and perspectives, pinpoint evidence, use explicit or implicit criteria, make defensible judgments or assessments, and draw conclusions.
Questioning and Investigating
Students learn to engage in inquiry when they identify and investigate questions, challenges, key issues, or problematic situations in their studies, lives, and communities and in the media.
Designing and Developing
Students think critically to develop ideas. Their ideas may lead to the designing of products or methods or the development of performances and representations in response to problems, events, issues, and needs.
Reflecting and Assessing
Students apply critical, metacognitive, and reflective thinking in given situations, and relate this thinking to other experiences, using this process to identify ways to improve or adapt their approach to learning.
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