Figure 2: Inquiry Components in the Living Skills: Critical and Creative Thinking Example Long Description

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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