Self management skills Thinking Skills Communication and social skills

Managing time and tasks effectively Critical thinking Exchanging thoughts, messages and information
• Plan short- and long-term assignments; meet Analysing and evaluating issues and ideas effectively through interaction
deadlines • Practise observing carefully in order to recognize • Give and receive meaningful feedback
• Keep and use a weekly planner for assignments problems • Use intercultural understanding to interpret
• Set goals that are challenging and realistic • Gather and organize relevant information to communication
• Plan strategies and take action to achieve personal formulate an argument • Use a variety of speaking techniques to
and academic goals • Recognize unstated assumptions and bias communicate with a variety of audiences
• Keep an organized and logical system of • Interpret data • Use appropriate forms of writing for different
information files/notebooks • Evaluate evidence and arguments purposes and audiences
• Use appropriate strategies for organizing complex • Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations • Use a variety of media to communicate with a
information • Test generalizations and conclusions range of audiences
• Select and use technology effectively and • Revise understanding based on new information • Interpret and use effectively modes of non-verbal
productively and evidence communication
• Evaluate and manage risk • Negotiate ideas and knowledge with peers and
• Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and teachers
Affective Skills debatable questions • Participate in, and contribute to, digital social
Managing state of mind • Consider ideas from multiple perspectives media networks
• Mindfulness • Develop contrary or opposing arguments • Collaborate with peers and experts using a variety
–– Practise focus and concentration • Analyse complex concepts and projects into their of digital environments and media
–– Practise strategies to develop mental focus constituent parts • Share ideas with multiple audiences using a variety
–– Practise strategies to overcome distractions and synthesize them to create new understanding of digital environments and media
–– Practise being aware of body–mind connections • Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions
• Perseverance • Identify obstacles and challenges
–– Demonstrate persistence and perseverance • Use models and simulations to explore complex Reading, writing and using language to gather and
–– Practise delaying gratification systems and issues communicate information
• Emotional management • Identify trends and forecast possibilities • Read critically and for comprehension
–– Practise strategies to overcome impulsiveness • Troubleshoot systems and applications • Read a variety of sources for information and for
and anger pleasure
–– Practise strategies to prevent and eliminate Creative Thinking • Make inferences and draw conclusions
bullying Generating novel ideas and considering new • Use and interpret a range of discipline-specific
–– Practise strategies to reduce stress and anxiety perspectives terms and symbols
• Self-motivation • Use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate • Write for different purposes
–– Practise analysing and attributing causes for new ideas and inquiries • Understand and use mathematical notation
failure • Consider multiple alternatives, including those • Paraphrase accurately and concisely
–– Practise managing self-talk that might be unlikely or impossible • Preview and skim texts to build understanding
–– Practise positive thinking • Create novel solutions to authentic problems • Take effective notes in class
• Resilience • Make unexpected or unusual connections between • Make effective summary notes for studying
–– Practise “bouncing back” after adversity, objects and/or ideas • Use a variety of organizers for academic writing
mistakes and failures • Design improvements to existing machines, media tasks
–– Practise “failing well” and technologies • Find information for disciplinary and
–– Practise dealing with disappointment and unmet • Design new machines, media and technologies interdisciplinary inquiries, using a variety of media
expectations • Make guesses, ask “what if” questions and • Organize and depict information logically
–– Practise dealing with change generate testable hypotheses • Structure information in summaries, essays and
• Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, reports
products or processes
• Create original works and ideas; use existing
works and ideas in new ways Working effectively with others (collaboration)
• Practise flexible thinking—develop multiple • Use social media networks appropriately to build
opposing, contradictory and complementary and develop relationships
arguments • Practise empathy
• Practise visible thinking strategies and techniques • Delegate and share responsibility for decision-
making
• Help others to succeed
• Take responsibility for one’s own actions
• Manage and resolve conflict, and work
collaboratively in teams
• Build consensus
• Make fair and equitable decisions
• Listen actively to other perspectives and ideas
• Negotiate effectively
• Encourage others to contribute
• Exercise leadership and take on a variety of roles
within groups
• Give and receive meaningful feedback
• Advocate for one’s own rights and needs