ESSENTIAL SKILLS

HABITS OF THE MIND

  • Comparing

    Examining for likenesses and differences

  • Abstracting/Abstract Thinking

    Thinking is characterized by the ability to use concepts and to make and understand generalizations, such as for the properties or patterns shared by a variety of specific items or events. – Dictonary.com


    Breaking up a whole and/or creating a whole from pieces.

  • Analyzing Perspective

    Examining the elements and parts of something in its relationship to the way you view it or someone else views it

  • Philosophize

    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

  • Discriminate

    Being able to see or notice small differences clearly and be able to distinguish and select what is true, appropriate, or excellent.

  • Evaluating

    Measurement – to determine the significance or worth by carefully appraising or study

  • Organizing

    To form something into a clear structure so that it can be systematically followed

  • Analyzing

    To break down a complex whole to its parts in order to gain a better understanding of it

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

  • Paraphrasing

    A restatement giving the meaning in another form

  • Sequencing

    A continuous and connected series united by a theme

  • Arguing

    Showing proof

  • Listening

    To pay attention in order to hear and understand

  • Questioning

    The process of studying something by asking many more questions, carefully breaking the driving theme of the question into smaller or different related questions to understand the road to travel to the end you have in mind.

  • Clarifying

    To be free of confusion, to make understandable

  • Storytelling

    Use a meaningful, planned or logical step-by-step process with an end in mind, to tell from your or others' point of view, with evidence, what happened during the experience you chose to share and some conclusions you want the reader or listener to understand or gain perspective on.