Global Competencies

Critical Thinking Goal:
Foster the development of the Global Competency of Critical Thinking in the school community. Staff and students can define Critical Thinking and articulate the strategies/skills associated with this Global Competency. Students can apply this knowledge in a variety of familiar and new contexts.

Strategies:

• Students will self-evaluate at regular intervals using the Student Friendly Deep Learning Progressions (ie. baseline, mid-year/semester, end of year/semester)

• Educators will intentionally teach Critical Thinking by completing a minimum of two OCSB Critical Thinking Lessons. This resource has been created to support this goal and includes lessons that can be taught in French

• Develop vocabulary to communicate their critical thinking in Social Studies (Je participe à une discussion, Développer le langage pour communiquer la pensée critique en FLS)

• Curate and display examples of Critical Thinking in action to be shared with the whole school community and/or at staff meetings in celebration of growth

• Educators will utilize a variety of strategies to explore Critical Thinking with their classes (e.g. OCSB Critical Thinking website, T2C)

• Students will develop Critical Thinking, Digital and AI literacy skills through the Samaritans lessons for their respective grades.

• Classes will create content exploring Critical Thinking strategies/skill (e.g. summarize, analyze, reflect, synthesize, provide judgment using criteria, etc.) to be displayed in/shared with the school community

• Educators will embed opportunities for students to grow as critical thinkers in their lessons and learning activities by intentionally including inquiry questions to guide learning.

• Administrators will intentionally notice and name “Critical Thinking”. They will provide opportunities for discussion and unpacking of this competency as part of school events and learning opportunities (e.g., Staff Meetings, PLC’s, School Assemblies, etc)

• Consult and collaborate with central staff to explore learning opportunities and partnerships to further Critical Thinking

• Leverage the critical thinking slide decks created for the monthly staff meetings

• At the high school panel, explore highlighting our Critical Thinking in the Age of AI Inquiry and its partnerships with other school staff.  Please note: School teams will be provided with TC2 ‘s Framing Critical Inquiry Questions and Tasks as well as Building a Community of Thinkers Quick Guides (*all new permanent NTIP teachers will also be receiving these) as well as Matt Miller’s AI for Educators book.