Outcome 4

Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners 

4:1-Children develop dispositions for learning such as: 

Curiosity-A strong desire to know or learn something.

Cooperation-An action or process of working together to the same end.

Confidence-Feeling or belief that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something.

Creativity-Use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.

Commitment-State or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc

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Enthusiasm-Intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.

Persistence-the fact of continuing in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.

Imagination-Faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses/Ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful/Part of the mind that imagines things.

Reflexivity-Reflexivity: children’s growing awareness of the ways that their experiences, interests and beliefs shape their understanding.

4:2-Children develop a range of skills and processes such as:

Problem solving-Process of finding solutions to difficult or complex issues

Inquiry-A seeking or request for truth, information or knowledge

Experimentation- Act, process, practice or instance of making experiments

Hypothesising-Provisional idea or explanation which has to be evaluated or tested. The idea needs

be confirmed or disproved

Researching- To establish facts or principles or to collect information on a subject

Investigating-Work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically(characterized by, based on, or constituting a system/Carried on using step-by-step procedures/Purposefully regular; methodical)

An inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities;

4:3- Children transfer and adapt what they have learnt from one context to another

"May I take some photo's too, of my art?"

4:4- Children resource their own learning through connecting with:

People

Place

Technologies-The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry/Machinery and devices developed from scientific knowledge/The branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences

Natural-A natural material is any product or physical matter that comes from plants, animals, or the ground. Minerals and the metals that can be extracted from them are also considered to belong into this category
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Processed-Products of physical matter that have been modified from natural materials by human intervention or that do not occur at all in the natural environment, but have been designed and manufactured to fulfill a particular purpose