Organization skills

Affective skills

Reflective

• Establish a clear timeline with short- and long-term deadlines

• Meets deadlines consistently

• Create a plan to complete the Personal Project

• Set goals that are challenging and realistic

• Plan strategies and take action to achieve personal and goals

• Use appropriate strategies for organising complex information

• Select and use technology effectively and productively

Mindfulness

• Practise focus and concentration

• Practise strategies to overcome distractions

Perseverance

• Demonstrate persistence and perseverance

Emotional Management

• Practise strategies to reduce stress and anxiety

Self-motivation

• Practise analysing and attributing causes for failure

• Practise managing self-talk

• Practise positive thinking

Resilience

• Practise “bouncing back” after adversity, mistakes and failures

• Practise dealing with disappointment and unmet expectations

• Develop new skills, techniques and strategies for effective learning

• Identify strengths and weaknesses of personal strategies (self-assessment)

• Demonstrate flexibility in the selection and use of learning strategies

• Try new ATL skills and evaluate their effectiveness

• Consider ethical, cultural and environmental implications

• Keep a Process Journal to record reflections

Consider content

• what did I learn about today?

• what don’t I yet understand?

• what questions do I have now?

Consider ATL skills development

• what can I do already?

• what will I work on next?

Consider personal learning strategies

• what can I do to become a more efficient and effective learner?

• what factors are important for helping me learn well?

Information literacy skills

Media Literacy Skills

• Use a wide range of sources and types of sources

• Selects resources deliberately

• Collect, record and verify data

• Make connections between various sources of information

• Collect and analyse data to identify solutions and make informed decisions

• Process data and report results

• Evaluate and select information sources based on their appropriateness

• Use critical literacy skills to analyse and interpret media communications

• Understand and implement intellectual property rights

• Create references and citations, use footnotes/endnotes and construct a bibliography according to recognized conventions

• Identify primary and secondary sources

• Evaluates a source using OPVL (origins, purpose, values, limitations)

• Uses consistent and proper citations (MLA 8)

• Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media, including digital social media and online networks

• Understand the impact of media representations and modes of presentation

• Seek a range of perspectives from multiple and varied sources--different points of view​

• Compare, contrast and draw connections among (multi) media resources

• Practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information technology

Critical

Creative

Transfer

• Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument

• The student clearly outlines how specific information (quoted/detailed) led them to make specific decisions that altered their thinking or goal

• Interpret data

• Evaluate evidence and arguments

• Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations

• Revise understanding based on new information and evidence

• Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and debatable questions

• Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions

• Identify obstacles and challenges

• Use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate new ideas and inquiries

• Consider multiple alternatives, including those that might be unlikely or impossible

• (Design improvements to existing machines, media and technologies)

• (Create original works and ideas; use existing works and ideas in new ways)

• Provide detailed examples of how transfer and application of information during the taking action stage to achieve your stated goal

• Apply skills and knowledge in unfamiliar situations

• Combine knowledge, understanding and skills to create products or solutions

Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction

Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information

• Excellent ability to communicate with a wide range of people in an appropriate manner.

• Excellent  ability to express themselves fully and fluently with a range of media including written, oral, and visual communication.

• Uses intercultural understanding to interpret communication

• Gives and receives meaningful feedback

• Uses discipline and/or text specific forms of expression for different purposes and audiences.

• Uses appropriate forms of writing for different purposes and audiences

• Uses a variety of media to communicate with a range of people

• Working effectively with supervisor

• Read critically and for comprehension

• Read a variety of sources for information

• Make inferences and draw conclusions

• Paraphrase accurately and concisely

• Make effective summary notes for studying

• Preview and skim texts to build understanding

• Structure information in summaries, essays and reports

• Excellent ability to explain the purpose of their project and articulate their learning.