CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
How can students think critically?
Analysing and evaluating issues and ideas
- Practise observing carefully in order to recognize problems
- Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument
- Recognize unstated assumptions and bias
- Interpret data
- Evaluate evidence and arguments
- Recognize and evaluate propositions
- Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
- Test generalizations and conclusions
- Revise understanding based on new information and evidence
- Evaluate and manage risk
- Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and debatable questions
- Consider ideas from multiple perspectives
- Develop contrary or opposing arguments
- Analyse complex concepts and projects into their constituent parts and synthesize them to create new understanding
- Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions
- Identify obstacles and challenges
- Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues
- Identify trends and forecast possibilities
- Troubleshoot systems and applications
CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS
How can students be creative?
Generating novel ideas and considering new perspectives
- Use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate new ideas and inquiries
- Consider multiple alternatives, including those that might be unlikely or impossible
- Create novel solutions to authentic problems
- Make unexpected or unusual connections between objects and/or ideas
- Design improvements to existing machines, media and technologies
- Design new machines, media and technologies
- Make guesses, ask “what if” questions and generate testable hypotheses
- Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or processes
- Create original works and ideas; use existing works and ideas in new ways
- Practise flexible thinking—develop multiple opposing, contradictory and complementary arguments
- Practise visible thinking strategies and techniques
- Generate metaphors and analogies
THINKING SKILLS: TRANSFER
How can students transfer skills and knowledge across disciplines and subject groups?
Using skills and knowledge in multiple contexts
- Use effective learning strategies in subject groups and disciplines
- Apply skills and knowledge in unfamiliar situations
- Inquire in different contexts to gain a different perspective
- Compare conceptual understanding across multiple subject groups and disciplines
- Make connections between subject groups and disciplines
- Combine knowledge, understanding and skills to create products or solutions
- Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies
- Change the context of an inquiry to gain different perspectives
ATL Skills from "MYP: From Principles to Practice (2014)"
