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:
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Personal |
Learning with Others |
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Developing Independence |
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Improving Own Learning and Performance / Being a Better Learner |
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Developing a Sense of Self Worth and an Understanding of Self and Others /Knowing Me, Knowing You |
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Thinking Skills |
Thinking Skills |
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Locating and collecting information |
Interpreting and analysing information |
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Recording, presenting and evaluating information |
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Research skills |
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Inference and deduction |
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Making judgements and justifying opinions |
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Creativity and innovation |
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Problem Investigation |
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Communication |
Speaking and Listening |
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