Distinctive Programmes (CIT)

Critical and Inventive Thinking

Our Learning Goals

We want our students to become proficient thinkers who thrive in and beyond school as they:

• Critical Thinking

  • Exercise sound reasoning and decision-making

  • Use metacognition to enhance, monitor and regulate thinking

• Adaptive Thinking

  • Assess different contexts and situations in order to make connections and draw new insights

  • Manage complexities and ambiguities by adjusting their perspectives and strategies

• Inventive Thinking

  • Explore possibilities and generate novel and useful ideas

  • Evaluate and refine ideas to formulate novel and useful solutions

Our Aims

By the end of Primary Six, our students should be able to:

• Use evidence to explain their reasoning and decisions

• Reflect on their thoughts, attitudes, behaviour and actions during their learning experiences

• Compare and contrast different contexts or situations

• Understand perspectives and strategies that are different from their own

• Generate alternative ideas and explore different pathways

• Evaluate and refine their ideas based on robust criteria

Our Programmes

Happy Hall

Through classroom discussions and activities, our students examine what good thinkers do to think well, and the dispositions good thinkers demonstrate when they think well.

Thinking Critically about Values

In collaboration with the CCE department, the CIT team leveraged on the Form Teacher Guidance Period (FTGP) lessons to encourage our students to discuss and reflect on contemporary issues. Through these classroom discussions, the students demonstrate critical and adaptive thinking as they navigate through the issues by examining facts, information and different perspectives.