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Essential Skills
Essential Skills, when learned, are use for life-long application.
The first group teaches habits of the mind and the second
group teaches clear communication.
The use of essential skills must be demonstrated in the students
school work for portfolio inclusion. Students begin using
and understanding these skills from elementary school and work
toward progressive competence in the proceeding years at TFA.
Essential skills are a tool for understanding, applying and
communicating knowledge, and developing social and emotional
maturity. The essential skills are applied to the
essential
questions.
Essential Skills
Habits of the Mind
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Comparing To examine for likeness and
differences.
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Abstracting Breaking up a whole/ creating a
whole from pieces
Summarize/ skeletal
Venn diagram / Webbing
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Analyzing
Perspective
Examining the elements and parts of something in its
relationship to the way you view it or someone else views it.
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Philosophizing
To reason
To bring into conformity with a philosophical point of view
A search for general understanding of values and reality by
chiefly speculative rather than observational means
5. Discriminate Insight and perception to see
what is not evident
Stresses the power to distinguish and select what is true,
appropriate, or excellent
6. Evaluating
Measurement/ to determine the significance or worth by
carefully appraising or study
7. Organizing To form something into a
clear structure so that it can be
systematically
followed
8. Analyzing Complex to simple
Break down a complex whole to its parts
Communication Skills
9. Paraphrasing A restatement giving the
meaning in another form
10. Sequencing A continuous and connected
series united by a theme
11. Arguing Showing proof
12. Listening To pay attention in order
to hear and understand
13. Questioning To subject to analysis
14. Clarifying To be free of confusion,
to make understandable
15. Storytelling Uses sequencing analyzing
perspective to tell a point of view
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