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Title: New Basic Skills


1
New Basic Skills
2
The Original Basic Skills
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Arithmetic

3
The New Basic Skills
  • What skills help lead to success in work, family,
    and education?

4
The New Basic Skills
  • Three-Part Foundation
  • Basic skills
  • Thinking skills
  • Personal qualities
  • Five Competencies
  • Resources
  • Interpersonal
  • Information
  • Systems
  • Technology

5
Three-Part Foundation Basic Skills
  • Reading
  • Locates, understands, and interprets written
    information in prose and in documents such as
    manuals, graphs, and schedules
  • Writing
  • Communicates thoughts, ideas, information, and
    messages in writing creates documents such as
    letters, directions, manuals, reports, graphs,
    and flow charts
  • Arithmetic/Mathematics
  • Performs basic computations and approaches
    practical problems by choosing appropriately from
    a variety of mathematical techniques

6
Three-Part Foundation Basic Skills
  • Listening
  • Receives, attends to, interprets, and responds to
    verbal messages and other cues
  • Speaking
  • Organizes ideas and communicates orally

7
Three-Part Foundation Thinking Skills
  • Creative thinking
  • Generates new ideas
  • Decision making
  • Specifies goals and constraints, generates
    alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and
    chooses best alternative
  • Problem solving
  • Recognizes problems and devises and implements
    plan of action

8
Three-Part Foundation Thinking Skills
  • Seeing things in the minds eye
  • Organizes and processes symbols, pictures,
    graphs, objects, and other information
  • Knowing how to learn
  • Uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and
    apply new knowledge and skills
  • Reasoning
  • Discovers a rule or principle underlying the
    relationship between two or more objects and
    applies it when solving a problem

9
Three-Part Foundation Personal Qualities
  • Responsibility
  • Exerts a high level of effort and perseveres
    towards goal attainment
  • Self-esteem
  • Believes in own self-worth and maintains a
    positive view of self
  • Sociability
  • Demonstrates understanding, friendliness,
    adaptability, empathy, and politeness in group
    settings

10
Three-Part Foundation Personal Qualities
  • Self-management
  • Assesses self accurately, sets personal goals,
    monitors progress, and exhibits self-control
  • Integrity/Honesty
  • Chooses ethical courses of action

11
Five Competencies Resources
  • Identifies, organizes, plans, and allocates
    resources
  • Time
  • Selects goal-relevant activities, ranks them,
    allocates time, and prepares and follows
    schedules
  • Money
  • Uses or prepares budgets, make forecasts, keeps
    records, and makes adjustments to meet objectives

12
Five Competencies Resources
  • Material and facilities
  • Acquires, stores, allocates, and uses materials
    or space efficiently
  • Human resources
  • Assesses skills and distributes work accordingly,
    evaluates performance and provides feedback

13
Five Competencies Interpersonal
  • Works with others
  • Participates as member of a team
  • Works cooperatively with others and contributes
    to group with ideas, suggestions, and effort
  • Teaches others new skills
  • Helps others learn
  • Serves clients/customers
  • Works and communicates with clients and customers
    to satisfy their expectations

14
Five Competencies Interpersonal
  • Exercises leadership
  • Communicates thoughts, feelings, and ideas to
    justify position encourages, persuades, and
    convinces or otherwise motivates others,
    including responsibly challenging existing
    procedures and policies, or authority
  • Negotiates
  • Works toward agreements involving exchange of
    resources, resolves divergent interests
  • Works with diversity
  • Works well with men and women from diverse
    backgrounds

15
Five Competencies Information
  • Acquires and uses information
  • Acquires and evaluates information
  • Identifies need for data, obtains it from
    existing sources or creates it, and evaluates its
    relevance and accuracy
  • Organizes and maintains information
  • Organizes, processes, and maintains written or
    computerized records in a systematic fashion

16
Five Competencies Information
  • Interprets and communicates information
  • Selects and analyzes information and communicates
    results to others using oral, written, graphic,
    pictorial, or multi-media methods
  • Uses computers to process information
  • Employs computers to acquire, organize, analyze,
    and communicate information

17
Five Competencies Systems
  • Understands complex inter-relationships
  • Understands systems
  • Knows how social, organizational, and
    technological systems work and operates
    effectively with them
  • Monitors and corrects performance
  • Distinguishes trends, predicts impacts on system
    operations, diagnose deviations in systems
    performance and corrects malfunctions
  • Improves or designs systems
  • Suggests modifications to existing systems and
    develops new or alternative systems to improve
    performance

18
Five Competencies Technology
  • Works with a variety of technologies
  • Selects technology
  • Chooses procedures, tools or equipment including
    computers and related technology
  • Applies technology to task
  • Understands overall intent and proper procedures
    for setup and operations of equipment
  • Maintains and troubleshoots equipment
  • Prevents, identifies, or solves problems with
    equipment, including computers and other
    technologies
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