Creating

Are students combining ideas or knowledge to produce something new?

Questioning

What questions might students be forming? What are they uncertain about?

Explaining

Are students explaining why something happens, rather than just describing what happens?

Interpreting

Are students making sense of information, examples, results or behaviour?

Comparing

Are students identifying similarities, differences, patterns or relationships?

Making Choices

Are students choosing between alternatives? What informs their choice?

Seeing Other Perspectives

Are students considering another person's approach, interpretation or point of view?

Predicting

Are students anticipating what might happen next or what the result will be?

Reasoning

Are students giving reasons for an answer, choice or approach?

Connecting

Are students connecting this to something they already know or have experienced?

Testing Ideas

Are students trying something and using the result to reconsider their thinking?

Justifying

Are students defending a decision, solution, interpretation or position?

Evaluating

Are students judging the quality, suitability or effectiveness of something?

Applying

Are students using their knowledge in a new situation or context?

Problem Solving

Are students working out how to approach something where the solution isn't immediately obvious?

Noticing

What are students noticing, observing or paying attention to?

Reflecting

Are students thinking about what they understand, how they learned it or where they struggled?

Changing Their Mind

Is there an opportunity for students to revise an initial idea or assumption?