Learning & Life Skills

What are the EdisonLearning Learning and Life Skills?

The EdisonLearning Learning and Life Skills are a coherent set of Learning Units designed to ensure learners learn effectively and are equipped for lifelong learning, no matter their Key Stage, or their age. Built around the development of a logical hierarchy of skills, Learning and Life Skills develop learners’ capacities in the following three skills categories:

3 Skills Categories

Personal and Social Competencies

Thinking Skills

Communication

Central to the Learning and Life Skills approach is the involvement of pupils in exploring their understanding of and assessing their own progress against explicit criteria – the ‘I can’ statements, and doing this across all year groups.

The 3 skills categories are aligned to six individual Learning Units:

Skill Category	Learning Unit	Skill areas
Personal and social competencies	Learning with Others	Learning as part of a group Being a good member of a social group
	Developing Independence and Responsibility	Taking individual responsibility for self and others Developing ability to act independently
	Improving Own Learning and Performance / Being a Better Learner	Monitoring and evaluating own learning How I learn and how I develop - learning styles Organisation and planning skills
	Developing a Sense of Self Worth and an Understanding of Self and Others /Knowing Me, Knowing You	Managing ones moral and social development Recognising feelings and understanding emotions Developing a positive sense of one's self Stress management and conflict resolution
Thinking Skills	Thinking Skills	Information Processing and Evaluation	Locating and collecting information
			Interpreting and analysing information
			Recording, presenting and evaluating information
		Reasoning and Enquiry	Research skills
			Inference and deduction
			Making judgements and justifying opinions
		Creative Thinking and Problem Solving	Creativity and innovation
			Problem Investigation
Communication	Speaking and Listening	Speaking Listening Conversation and Discussion skills

Learning & Life Skills

What are the EdisonLearning Learning and Life Skills?

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