Communication skills Organisation skills Critical thinking skills

How can I Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through How can I Managing time and tasks effectively How can I Analysing and evaluating issues and ideas
communicat interaction demonstrate • Plan short- and long-term assignments; meet deadlines think • Practise observing carefully in order to recognize
e through • Give and receive meaningful feedback organization • Create plans to prepare for summative assessments (examinations and performances) critically? problems
interaction? • Use intercultural understanding to interpret communication skills? • Keep and use a weekly planner for assignments • Gather and organize relevant information to
• Use a variety of speaking techniques to communicate with a variety of audiences • Set goals that are challenging and realistic formulate an argument
• Use appropriate forms of writing for different purposes and audiences • Plan strategies and take action to achieve personal and academic goals • Recognize unstated assumptions and bias
• Use a variety of media to communicate with a range of audiences • Bring necessary equipment and supplies to class • Interpret data
• Interpret and use effectively modes of non-verbal communication • Keep an organized and logical system of information files/notebooks • Evaluate evidence and arguments
• Negotiate ideas and knowledge with peers and teachers • Use appropriate strategies for organizing complex information • Recognize and evaluate propositions
• Participate in, and contribute to, digital social media networks • Understand and use sensory learning preferences (learning styles) • Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
• Collaborate with peers and experts using a variety of digital environments and • Select and use technology effectively and productively • Test generalizations and conclusions
media Affective skills • Revise understanding based on new information and
• Share ideas with multiple audiences using a variety of digital environments and evidence
How can I Managing state of mind
media • Evaluate and manage risk
manage my Mindfulness • Practise focus and concentration
How can I Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information • Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and debatable
own state of • Practise strategies to develop mental focus questions
demonstrate • Read critically and for comprehension
mind? • Practise strategies to overcome distractions • Consider ideas from multiple perspectives
communicati • Read a variety of sources for information and for pleasure
• Practise being aware of body–mind connections • Develop contrary or opposing arguments
on through • Make inferences and draw conclusions
• Use and interpret a range of discipline-specific terms and symbols Perseverance • Demonstrate persistence and perseverance • Analyse complex concepts and projects into their
language? • Practise delaying gratification
• Write for different purposes constituent parts and synthesize them to create new
• Understand and use mathematical notation Emotional • Practise strategies to overcome impulsiveness and anger understanding
• Paraphrase accurately and concisely management • Practise strategies to prevent and eliminate bullying • Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions
• Preview and skim texts to build understanding • Practise strategies to reduce stress and anxiety • Identify obstacles and challenges
• Take effective notes in class Self-motivation • Practise analysing and attributing causes for failure • Use models and simulations to explore complex
• Make effective summary notes for studying • Practise managing self-talk systems and issues
• Use a variety of organizers for academic writing tasks • Practise positive thinking • Identify trends and forecast possibilities
• Find information for disciplinary and interdisciplinary inquiries, using a variety of Resilience • Practise “bouncing back” after adversity, mistakes and failures • Troubleshoot systems and applications
media • Practise “failing well” Creative thinking skills
• Organize and depict information logically • Practise dealing with disappointment and unmet expectations
How can I Generating novel ideas and considering new
• Structure information in summaries, essays and reports • Practise dealing with change
think perspectives

Collaboration & social skills

social Reflection skills
How can I be
reflective?
(Re)considering the process of learning; choosing and using ATL skills
• Develop new skills, techniques and strategies for effective learning
creatively? • Use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate
new ideas and inquiries
• Consider multiple alternatives, including those that
How can I Working effectively with others • Identify strengths and weaknesses of personal learning strategies (self-assessment) might be unlikely or impossible
collaborate • Use social media networks appropriately to build and develop relationships • Demonstrate flexibility in the selection and use of learning strategies • Create novel solutions to authentic problems
with others • Practise empathy • Try new ATL skills and evaluate their effectiveness • Make unexpected or unusual connections between
• Delegate and share responsibility for decision-making • Consider content (What did I learn about? What don’t I understand yet? What questions do I objects and/or ideas
have now?) • Design improvements to existing machines, media
• Help others to succeed
• Take responsibility for one’s own actions • Consider ATL skills development (What can I already do? How can I share my skills to help and technologies
peers? What will I work on next?) • Design new machines, media and technologies
• Manage and resolve conflict and work collaboratively in teams
• Consider personal learning strategies (What can I do to become a more efficient and effective • Make guesses, ask “what if” questions and generate
• Build consensus
learner? How can I become more flexible in my choice of learning strategies? What factors are testable hypotheses
• Make fair and equitable decisions important for helping me learn well?)
• Listen actively to other perspectives and ideas • Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas,
• Focus on the process of creating by imitating the work of others
• Negotiate effectively products or processes
• Consider ethical, cultural and environmental implications
• Encourage others to contribute • Create original works and ideas; use existing works
• Keep a journal to record reflections
• Exercise leadership and take on a variety of roles within groups and ideas in new ways
• Give and receive meaningful feedback • Practise flexible thinking—develop multiple
• Advocate for one’s own rights and needs opposing, contradictory and complementary
arguments
• Practise visible thinking strategies and techniques
Information literacy skills Media literacy skills • Generate metaphors and analogies
How can I Finding, interpreting, judging and creating information How can I Interacting with media to use and create ideas and Transfer skills
demonstrate • Collect, record and verify data demonstrate information How can I Using skills and knowledge in multiple contexts
information • Access information to be informed and inform others media • Locate, organize, analyse, evaluate, synthesize and ethically transfer • Use effective learning strategies in subject groups
literacy? • Make connections between various sources of information literacy? use information from a variety of sources and media skills and and disciplines
• Understand the benefits and limitations of personal sensory learning preferences when accessing, processing (including digital social media and online networks) knowledge • Apply skills and knowledge in unfamiliar situations
and recalling information • Demonstrate awareness of media interpretations of events across • Inquire in different contexts to gain a different
• Use memory techniques to develop long-term memory and ideas (including digital social media) disciplines perspective
• Present information in a variety of formats and platforms • Make informed choices about personal viewing and subject • Compare conceptual understanding across multiple
• Collect and analyse data to identify solutions and make informed decisions experiences subject groups and disciplines
groups?
• Process data and report results • Understand the impact of media representations and • Make connections between subject groups and
• Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on their appropriateness to specific tasks modes of presentation disciplines
• Understand and use technology systems • Seek a range of perspectives from multiple and varied • Combine knowledge, understanding and skills to
• Use critical literacy skills to analyse and interpret media communications sources create products or solutions
• Understand and implement intellectual property rights • Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple • Transfer current knowledge to learning of new
• Create references and citations, use footnotes/endnotes and construct a bibliography according to recognized audiences using a variety of media and formats technologies
conventions • Compare, contrast and draw connections among • Change the context of an inquiry to gain different
• Identify primary and secondary sources (multi)media resources perspectives