Key Competencies

Levelling of the mountains

Staff Meeting Overview

Part one Key competencies and the life long learner. Key competencies, what are they and what do

they mean to us

Part two How do we assess key competencies; should

we even bother? Learning journeys

Key Competencies

thinking using language, symbols, and texts managing self relating to others participating and contributing.

What are the key competencies about?

Helping students become better learners

Key competencies focus on the dispositions required to be life long learners

“Key competencies are the capabilities people need in order to live, learn, and contribute as active members of their communities. Competencies are more complex than skills. Capable people draw on and combine all the resources available to them, including: knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values. “ Mark Treadwell 2008

How do we teach them?

Children are constantly using key competencies

Our challenge as teachers is to support students inidentifying: the key competencies in use the value/purpose of key competencies how effectively they personally are using key

competencies how to use them more effectively next time

How do we teach them?

Key competencies develop over timeKey competencies are shaped by

interactions with people, places, ideas and things

Co-operative activities are a great platform for teachers to build students personal and team key competencies

Key competencies are contextually boundKey competencies are interlinked

How do we assess key competenciesand should we even bother?

Some students are better at certain key competencies than others

Some students are better at certain key competencies in one curriculum area than others

Assessing key competencies using continuums is possible

Assessing key competencies using learning journeys captures learning moments and requires reflections and critical thinking around it

Activity one for staff – learning journeys

1. Work with photographs of staff members in action and identify:

the key competencies in use the value/purpose of the key

competencies in this photo situation how effectively they personally are using

the identified key competencies how they could use them more

effectively next time

Our staff learning journeys become exemplars to share with our students

Putting Christmas dinner on the table

Relating to otherThinking

Participating and contributing

I had to consider what roles this family I didn’t know might take on and which ones they didn’t on Christmas day. I tried to include the family in ways that I thought might make bring them together.

The turkey is over cooked, there is too much food but it is important the uncle’s dish goes onto the table. I had to think about what was a priority, problem solve the dried out turkey and create a timeframe to bring everything together. I had to be creative to make special and therefore make the guests feel special.

Be aware that this newly blended family has different ways of celebrating Christmas to each other and again to me.Recognise that the hostess is not her normal self or able to function in her role today

Next time:

Digital Learning Stories

Examples of Learning journeys

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Child’s comment

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