Visual of three columns displaying points on each Living Skill.
Column one heading “Personal Skills”
Subheading “Self Awareness and Self Monitoring Skills”
- Developing a realistic understanding of their own strengths and areas that need improvement
- Monitoring their progress in developing skills and understanding
- Recognizing stress and learning to identify its cause
- Taking responsibility for their actions and their learning
Subheading “Adapting, Coping and Management Skills”
- Using adaptive skills such as, being flexible, making connections, and applying problem solving, stress-management, conflict-resolution skills when confronted with challenges and change
- Using coping skills such as, relaxation technieus, adopting an optimistic attitude, trying out solutions to problems, expressing emotions and seeking help, when dealing with difficult or stressful situations or emotions
- Using time-management and organizational skills to develop greater control over their own live
Column two heading “Interpersonal Skills”
Subheading “Communication Skills, Verbal/Non-Verbal”
- Receiving Information: observing non-verbal signs and body language, active listening, including paraphrasing, clarifying, questioning and responding
- Interpreting Information: reflecting on messaging, analysing message
- Sending Information: signalixing intentions; clearly expressing information and ideas, expressing responses and providing feedback using persuasive skills, assertive skills, negotiating skills, refusal skills
Subheading “Relationship and social Skills”
- Showing respect for other and the environment
- Appreciating differences in people
- Demonstrating fair play
- Demonstrating team work skills by working collaboratively with a partner or in a group to achieve a common goal
- Applying conflict resolution skills
- Networking
- Showing leadership
Column three heading “Critical and Creative Thinking”
Subheading “Planning”
- Generating Information/Ideas skills relates to the “Formulating Questions” component of the Inquiry Framework
- Organizing Information/ideas and “Focusing and Clarifying Ideas or Strategies” skills relates to the “Gather and Organize” component of the Inquiry Framework
Subheading “Processing”
- Interpreting, Making Connecting and Analysing skills relates to the “Interpret and Analyse” component of the Inquiry Framework
- Synthesizing and Evaluating relates to “Evaluate and Draw Conclusions” component
Subheading “Drawing Conclusions/Presenting Results”
- Arriving at a decision, conclusion, goal or solution relates to the “Evaluate and Draw Conclusions” component
- Presenting results (e.g. orally, in writing, through a demonstration or performance) relates to the “Communicating” component
- Sharing the strategy relates to the “Reflection” component
Subheading “Reflecting/Evaluation”
- Reflecting on what could have been done differently relates to the “Reflect” component
- Transferring learning to new situations relates to the “Reflect” component
- Planning nest steps relates to the ‘Reflect” component
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