Applied academic skills are evident daily in homework assignments, classwork, and Q&A exchanges during lessons.
Students apply/demonstrate reading skills by interpreting written instructions/project directions and constructing responses, using print and online materials as resources, completing worksheets, and seeking clarification about what they have read.
Students rely on writing skills to construct lab reports, posters, and presentation materials, take notes, and compose responses to essay questions.
Students use computational skills appropriately and make logical choices when analyzing and differentiating among available procedures. Outside of math class, this includes creating/interpreting tables and graphs and organizing/displaying data.
Students follow procedures, experiment, infer, hypothesize (even as simple as "what if we do it this way"), and construct processes to complete a task (can occur outside of math/science classes).
Critical thinking skills are evident in homework, group work, project-based tasks, and presentations.
Students create innovative and novel ideas/solutions and display divergent thinking. This can be seen in oral presentations and creative writing assignments, open-ended tasks, and project design.
Students display analytical and strategic thinking. This can be seen in debating an issue, converging on an understanding, assessing a problem, and questioning (playing devil's advocate).
Students differentiate between multiple approaches and assess options (could be linked to thinking critically).
Students assess problems involving the use of available resources (personnel and materials) and review multiple strategies for resolving problems (could be linked to thinking creatively).
Students negotiate pros/cons of ideas, approaches, and solutions and analyze options using "if-then" rationale.
Students plan steps, procedures, and/or approaches for addressing tasks. This occurs naturally in most assignments, ranging from solving one problem to completing a long-term project.
Interpersonal skills are almost always displayed when students work in pairs or teams to complete short-term or long-term tasks.
Students participate in cooperative groups or with a partner, contribute fairly to the task, and show respect to others.
Students help fellow students understand tasks, find resources, and fulfill assigned roles (think of fellow students as customers).
Students participate as team leaders or effective team members in project assignments and organize work to meet project goals and team roles.
Students keep team members on track, suggest altenatives, and discuss options (can be as much about agreement as conflict).
Students listen to and consider all team members' ideas, respond supportively to ideas given in class or in teams, and work well with all teammates.
Personal qualities are routinely displayed in students' everyday actions in the classroom — how they participate in lessons, communicate, contribute to the learning environment, treat their fellow students, and govern themselves.
Students actively participate in class, asking questions, volunteering answers, completing/submitting assignments, and working well in groups.
Students adapt easily to different modes of instruction and different types of assignments.
Students commit to time-on-task during class and begin work without fanfare.
Students are cooperative and noticeably engaged.
Students treat work assignments with respect in that work is either original or credited correctly.
Students treat others and work assignments with respect. All ideas are considered and work is either original or credited correctly.
Students commit to time-on-task during class and begin work without fanfare. This is also evident during teamwork.
Students contribute positively to the class.
Students are active listeners, seeking clarification and understanding when needed.
Resource management is often a component of project-based learning and collaborative group work but can also apply to how an individual student manages class time.
Students demonstrate time management when organizing and planning project activities with a team or when organizing and managing themselves and individual class assignments and homework. Time management is inherent in almost all assignments.
Students manage money in group projects requiring allocation of limited finances and resources (i.e. designing/marketing a toy, flipping a house, or planning a trip).
Students manage resources in projects requiring allocation of limited finances, resources (materials), and personnel.
Students gain experience managing personnel (i.e. each other) in group projects requiring allocation of limited finances, resources (materials), and role assignments. They also manage their own behavior and participation.
Information use can include retrieving information from any medium (e.g., print, TV, Internet, or in person) and can be as simple as looking up one piece of information to writing a term paper or preparing an oral presentation.
Students use analytical strategies to determine the best medium for finding necessary information.
Students use any graphic organizer—outline, concept map, organization chart, tables, etc. to sort information/data.
Students use classification and analytic skills to determine the necessary information (i.e., stay on target) to complete task.
Students assess information to determine which is relevant (does not have to be a mathematical analysis).
Students summarize information to compose written or oral presentations, posters, reports, slides, etc. This can also be as simple as a student explaining a problem in front of the class.
Routinely displayed in students' everyday actions in the classroom — how they participate in lessons, contribute to the learning environment, treat their fellow students, and govern themselves.
Students provide oral responses. Evidence ranges from impromptu short answers during a lesson to completing a formal oral presentation.
Students are noticeably engaged through notetaking, questioning, and responding.
Students use/demonstrate reading skills by following written instructions/project directions, reviewing print and digital resources, completing worksheets, and asking questions about what they have read.
Students rely on writing skills to organize lab reports, posters, presentation materials and to take notes and reply to essay questions.
Students interpret verbal and nonverbal communication efforts of others.
A team working in sync to accomplish an assignment can be thought of as a system.
Students understand their roles and assignments when collaborating as a team (system) and contribute to the organizational structure and function of the team.
Students devise methods to assess team (system) progress.
Students negotiate mid-course corrections, adaptations to team (system) tasks if necessary.
In the classroom and workplace, technology skills typically refer to the use of digital electronics.
Students often rely on various digital technologies for calculating, collecting and displaying data, conducting research, creating presentations, and writing reports.
