Elements and Performance Criteria
- Examine the value of curiosity and questioning
- Develop the habit of asking questions and wondering why
- Reflect on and wonder about issues and situations
- Ask questions of self to challenge and expand individual thinking
- Ask questions of others in a constructive way to seek broader knowledge and understanding
- Identify situations when too much wondering and questioning may be inappropriate or ineffective
- Assess the best ways to structure questions for different situations
- Contribute to answers as well as questions
- Take responsibility for answering questions as well as for asking them
- From many possible questions, determine the key question to be answered
- Identify and access information needed to answer the question
- Sort the facts from other information in developing a response
- Check own preconceptions and assumptions and determine their validity
- Reach a considered conclusion or answer, without ruling out more questions or further exploration
- Use conclusions and answers in positive, practical and timely ways