Tony Wagner. Skills & Competencies. CASEL has identified five interrelated sets of cognitive, affective and behavioral competencies.
The definitions of the five competency clusters for students are: Self-awareness: The ability to accurately recognize one’s emotions and thoughts and their influence on behavior. This includes accurately assessing one’s strengths and limitations and possessing a well-grounded sense of confidence and optimism.Self-management: The ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations. Grit: The Other 21st Century Skills. Due to the interest of my post The Other 21st Skills, I decided to discuss individually each of the skills or dispositions I proposed that are in addition to the seven survival skills as identified by Tony Wagner.
This post focuses on Grit: Here is Angela Duckwoth’s TED Talk about Grit that provides an overview about the topic. Angela Duckworth developed a scale to measure Grit found at Some of characteristics or dispositions of Grit include: Perseverance and TenacityDeliberate PracticeAbility to Delay GratificationPassion-Driven FocusSelf Control and Self DisciplineLong Term Goal-OrientedStick-to-it-ness Under Difficult ConditionsConsistency of Effort So how can Grit be taught or facilitated? Awareness of grit can be brought more into conscious by first, teaching learners about grit and then by helping them reflect on their degree and level of grit.
Grit can be reinforced though provide emotionally and intellectual support for grit-related behaviors. Additional Educational Resources: Resilience: The Other 21st Century Skills. Due to the interest of my post The Other 21st Skills, I decided to individually discuss each of the skills or dispositions I proposed that are in addition to the seven survival skills as identified by Tony Wagner.
This post focuses on resiliency. The first post focused on Grit: The Other 21st Century Skills. Some would categorize Grit and Resiliency as the same skill, but it is my belief they are involve two different, but interconnected, skill sets. While grit focuses on persistence, resilience is about bouncing back in the face of challenges and/or failure. Some of characteristics or dispositions of Resilience include: Bouncing BackManaging EmotionsAwareness of Strengths and AssetsPassion-Driven FocusResourcefulnessSense of Personal AgencyAbility to Reach Out to OthersProblem-Solving Skills Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress.
Resilience research clearly reveals the following key points: Like this: Obvious to you. Amazing to others. - by Derek Sivers. Benchmarks for Core Skills. Benchmarks for Core Skills – First Draft Table of Contents A.
CommunicationB. CognitionC. Information CompetencyD. A. Students will communicate effectively in many different situations, involving diverse people and viewpoints. 1. Demonstrated Competence Beginner · Avoid interrupting the speaker. · Summarize speaker’s main points when called upon to do so. · Integrate the message into his or her own frame of reference. · Anticipate forthcoming points.
Developed · Develop a framework for organizing the message.
Developing Character, Courage & College Readiness. Leaders often cut their own path.
That is certainly the case for Dan Scoggin, perhaps the most countercultural guy in K-12. The Phoenix school network leader has an unusual “reverence for western tradition.” Back-to-basics doesn’t come close to describing Great Hearts Academies, a K-12 charter network offering “classical education, revolutionary schools.” The elementary schools follow the Core Knowledge curriculum. There are no electives in high school (other than the latin/greek track). The high school day starts with Humane Letters, a two-hour Socratic seminar where students read great books and the founding documents.
There is no reference to pop culture at Great Hearts–just the study of spirit, law, and philosophy. Raphael’s painting School of Athens (1510) adorns the lobby of all Great Hearts schools–placing the Aristotle-Socrates dialectic center stage. Scoggins uses unusual language to describe aims: the lifelong pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty. Healthy Living Performance Standards. The BC Healthy Living Performance Standards have been developed as an assessment resource for voluntary use in BC schools.
They are designed to support and align with several required areas of study within the BC provincial curriculum. The BC Healthy Living Performance Standards describe the professional judgments of a number of BC educators about cross-curricular expectations for healthy living, and they provide a context within which teachers, students, and families can examine student learning in these areas. The standards are intended to provide a resource those schools and families can use to focus and monitor their efforts to enhance health knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviours among students while providing a foundation for student achievement in general. The BC Healthy Living Performance Standards are not intended to replace existing curricula, nor do they represent all concepts addressed within such curricula. 8710_Learning Independence Continuum_2012_08_02.pdf. Motivation & Drive.