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Personal Learning and Thinking Skills<br />
C O N TA C T B O O K 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1<br />
Advice from the Stratford<br />
City Education Project<br />
Skills, behaviours and personal qualities:<br />
• You will seek out challenges or new responsibilities and show flexibility when<br />
priorities change.<br />
• You can work towards goals, showing initiative, commitment and perseverance.<br />
• You organize your time and resources, prioritizing actions.<br />
• You anticipate, take and manage risks.<br />
•You can deal with competing pressures, including personal and work-related<br />
demands.<br />
• You will respond positively to change, seeking advice and support when needed.<br />
• You manage your emotions, and build and maintain relationships.<br />
When might you do this?<br />
• In Design and Technology you could question your own and others’ assumptions<br />
in group design sessions to address problems and agree solutions.<br />
• In English you would make informed choices about how you communicate<br />
formally and informally.<br />
• In Citizenship you would take personal responsibility for organising your time and<br />
resources.<br />
EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATORS<br />
Description:<br />
You actively engage with issues that affect you and those around you. You play a<br />
full part in the life of your school, college, workplace or wider community by taking<br />
responsible action to bring improvements for others as well as yourself.<br />
Skills, behaviours and personal qualities:<br />
• You can discuss issues of concern, seeking resolution where needed.<br />
• You are able to present a persuasive case for action.<br />
• You propose practical ways forward, breaking these down into manageable steps.<br />
• You can identify improvements that would benefit others as well as yourself.<br />
• You try to influence others, negotiating and balancing diverse views to reach<br />
workable solutions.<br />
• You act as an advocate for views and beliefs that may differ from your own.<br />
When might you do this?<br />
• In Science you could take an active part in discussions, expressing your own<br />
ideas and forming opinions about scientific issues.<br />
• In Geography you would review alternatives, negotiating and balancing diverse<br />
views to understand how workable solutions to geographical issues might be<br />
achieved.<br />
• In Art you would use your creative knowledge, skills and understanding to<br />
engage actively with issues that affect you.<br />
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