Skills

**Skills: what do we want students to be able to do?**

Skills are best developed in the context of authentic stiuations such as those offered through the PYP units of inquiry. In order to be well prepared students for life-long learning, students need to master a whole range of skills beyond those normally referred to as basic. Skills should be interepreted in expectation according to the appropriatness for the group of learners.

The PYP transdisciplinary skills are:

**Thinking skills**
 * acquistion of knowledge
 * comprehension
 * application
 * analysis
 * synthesis
 * evaluation
 * dialectical thought
 * metacognition

**Social skills**
 * accepting responsibility
 * respecting others
 * cooperating
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">resolving conflict
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">group-decision-making
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">adopting a vaiety of group-roles

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Communication skills**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">listening
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">speaking
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">reading
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">writing
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">viewing
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">presenting
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">non-verbal communication

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Self-management skills**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">gross motor skills
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">fine motor skills
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">spatial awareness
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">organization
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">time management
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">safety
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">healthy life-style
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">coders of behaviour
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">informed choices

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Research skills**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">formulating questions
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">observing
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">planning
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">collecting data
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">recording data
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">organizing data
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">interpreting data
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">presenting research findings

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Making the PYP Happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education