School Diary

Personal Learning and Thinking Skills
C O N TA C T B O O K 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1
Advice from the Stratford
City Education Project
When might you do this?
• In History you might invite feedback from your peers, evaluating your own
strengths and weaknesses to monitor and improve your performance.
• In Modern Foreign Languages you could develop techniques for reviewing
and redrafting written work to improve its accuracy.
• In ICT you would reflect critically on the available information, taking into
account its purpose, author and context.
TEAM WORKERS
Description:
You work confidently with others, adapting to different contexts and taking
responsibility for your own part. You listen to and take account of different
views. You form collaborative relationships, resolving issues to reach agreed
outcomes.
Skills, behaviours and personal qualities:
• You will collaborate with others to work towards common goals.
• You can reach agreements, managing discussions to achieve results.
• You adapt behaviour to suit different roles and situations, including
leadership roles.
• You show fairness and consideration to others.
• You take responsibility, showing confidence in yourself and their contribution.
• You provide constructive support and feedback to others.
When might you do this?
• In Science extend your work with others using e-technologies, either within
or beyond the school environment.
• In personal wellbeing you might explore how social skills can provide
solutions to issues and challenges within relationships.
• In Physical Education you would recognise individual and collective
responsibility for your performance.
SELF-MANAGERS
Description:
You organise yourself, showing personal responsibility, initiative, creativity and
enterprise with a commitment to learning and self-improvement. You actively
embrace change, responding positively to new priorities, coping with
challenges and looking for opportunities.
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