Reflecting on higher order thinking
Secondary discipline areas are often content-laden. Use Robyn Collins Curriculum and Leadership as a foundation, and consider the Australian Curriculum in your selected junior discipline area. Identify the process/research/inquiry skills that are required. They are skills that, according to Collins, are best developed through application to real-life contexts. Use the Aims, rationale and structure of the curriculum to uncover the global approaches of importance, as well as the content.
Collins states "the extent to which higher-order thinking skills are taught and assessed continues to be an area of debate, with many teachers and employers expressing concern that young people ‘cannot think’". This is important note in all subjects, particularly in HPE, one of my junior disciplinary Key Learning Areas(KLA). There are many assumptions that HPE is easy and does not involve much thinking as it is 'just running around and playing games'. However, just as in other in KLAs, critical thinking is required. For example, in years 7 and 8, students are to "Evaluate strategies to manage personal, physical and social changes that occur as they grow older (ACPPS071) (ACARA)". The verb 'evaluate' is one of the Bloom's Taxonomy forms of higher-order thinking. This curriculum descriptor aims to encourage students to evaluate changes that relate to themselves and others in society.
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