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Communication
1. Communication Interactive and Language Skills
How can
1.1 Interactive skills - exchanging thoughts, messages and
students
information effectively through interaction
communicat
a. Follow instructions accurately
e
b. Give and receive meaningful feedback
effectively?
c. Use intercultural understanding to interpret communication
d. Use a variety of speaking techniques to communicate with a
variety of audiences
e. Use appropriate forms of writing for different purposes and
audiences
f. Use a variety of media to communicate with a range of
audiences
g. Interpret and use effectively modes of non-verbal
communication
h. Negotiate ideas and knowledge with peers and teachers
i. Participate in, and contribute to, digital social media
networks
j. Collaborate with peers and experts using a variety of digital
environments and media
k. Share ideas with multiple audiences using a variety of digital
environments and media
1.2 Language skills - reading, writing and using language to
gather and communicate information
a. Read critically and for comprehension
b. Read a variety of sources for information and for pleasure
c. Make inferences and draw conclusions
d. Use and interpret a range of discipline-specific terms and
symbols
e. Write for different purposes
f. Understand and use mathematical notation
g. Paraphrase accurately and concisely
h. Preview and skim texts to build understanding
i. Take effective notes in class
j. Make effective summary notes for studying
k. Use a variety of organizers for academic writing tasks
l. Find information for disciplinary and interdisciplinary
inquiries, using a variety of media
m. Organize and depict information logically
n. Structure information in summaries, essays and reports
Social
2. Collaboration Skills
Working effectively with others
How can
a. Use social media networks appropriately to build and
students
develop relationships
collaborate?
b. Practice empathy
c. Delegate and share responsibility for decision-making
d. Help others to succeed
e. Take responsibility for ones own actions
f. Manage and resolve conflict and work collaboratively in
teams
g. Build consensus
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students
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literacy?
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Thinking
8. Critical Thinking Skills
Analysing and evaluating issues and ideas
How can
a. Practice observing carefully in order to recognize problems
students
b. Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an
think
argument
critically?
c. Recognize unstated assumptions and bias
d. Ask questions to facilitate understanding
e. Interpret data
f. Evaluate evidence and arguments
g. Recognize and evaluate propositions
h. Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
i. Test generalizations and conclusions
j. Revise understanding based on new information and
evidence
k. Evaluate and manage risk
l. Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and debatable
questions
m. Consider ideas from multiple perspectives
n. Develop contrary or opposing arguments
o. Analyse complex concepts and projects into their constituent
parts and synthesize them to create new understanding
p. Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions
q. Identify obstacles and challenges
r. Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and
issues
s. Identify trends and forecast possibilities
t. Troubleshoot systems and applications
9. Creative Thinking Skills
Generating novel ideas and considering new perspectives
How can
a. Use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate new
students be
ideas and inquiries
creative?
b. Consider multiple alternatives, including those that might be
unlikely or impossible
c. Create novel solutions to authentic problems
d. Make unexpected or unusual connections between objects
and/or ideas
e. Design improvements to existing machines, media and
technologies
f. Design new machines, media and technologies
g. Make guesses, ask what if questions and generate testable
hypotheses
h. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or
processes
i. Create original works and ideas; use existing works and ideas
in new ways
j. Practise flexible thinkingdevelop multiple opposing,
contradictory and complementary arguments
k. Practise visible thinking strategies and techniques
l. Generate metaphors and analogies
10.
Transfer Skills
Utilizing skills and knowledge in multiple contexts
How can
a. Utilize effective learning strategies in subject groups and
students
disciplines
transfer
b. Apply skills and knowledge in unfamiliar situations
skills and
c. Inquire in different contexts to gain a different perspective
knowledge
d. Compare conceptual understanding across multiple subject
among
groups and disciplines
disciplines
e. Make connections between subject groups and disciplines
and subject
f. Combine knowledge, understanding and skills to create
groups?
products or solutions
g. Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies
h. Change the context of an inquiry to gain different
perspectives