Essential Skills
Essential Skills are needed for work, learning and life!
For each essential skill listed below, give an example of how you use that
skill in your daily life at home, at school, or during extracurricular activities
or community events.
ESSENTIAL WHAT IT IS
SKILL
Reading Is how we take meaning
from sentences and
paragraphs. It is how we
understand instruction in
the written form.
Document Use How a collection of
displayed information is
interpreted. A combination
of words, charts, labels and
colors that we can make
meaning of.
Numeracy How we use numbers. It is
thinking mathematically.
How we work
quantitatively.
Writing How we communicate with
text on paper or on screen.
It organizes and documents
information to persuade
and inform.
Oral How we use speech to
Communication exchange information. How
we share information. How
we understand others.
Working with How we operate in a
Others partnership or team.
Carrying out at task
together.
Thinking How we evaluate ideas to
make informed decisions.
Its using are memories
and experience to work
efficiently and effectively.
HOW YOU USE IT
-For instructions
-For reference
-Recognizing specifications
-Review blueprints or
schematics
-It is how we take meaning
-Read or interpret graphs
-Taking a measurement
-knowledge of numbers
and figures
-Multiplication
-Texting
-Writing and essay
-Providing an explanation
via email.
-Talking
-Greet people
-Take messages
- Talk on phone
-A group assignment
-A hockey team
-A company
-Planning and event
-Organizing your room
-Problem solving
Digital How we work with modern
technology.
Continuous How we learn on the job
Learning and off site. Its upgrading
our skills as the world
upgrades in technology.
-Imputing data
-Measuring variables
-Analyzing and organizing
information
-Co-worker teaches you
something new
-Using past experience to
do something new