The thinking competency encompasses the knowledge, skills and processes we associate with intellectual development. It is through their competency as thinkers that students take subject-specific concepts and content and transform them into a new understanding. Thinking competence includes specific thinking skills as well as habits of mind, and metacognitive awareness.

Click on the blue “Creative Thinking” and “Critical Thinking” to see students from Dormick Elementary School explain it.  Do you notice their “I statements”?

Critical Thinking

Creative Thinking