Critical Skills
What is it?
Critical Skills has been formulated from the business world and is centred around the use of core skills which are deemed to be ‘critical’ for life and learning.
The following Critical Skills have been identified as being crucial to students personal development.
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The rationale
“Young people must be prepared for an adult life, in which they are involved as active, responsible citizens…For young people themselves the price of disengagement from learning is often serious, and can result in persistent failure for the rest of their lives”
Education and skills, A strategy to 2008.
Why develop these skills in the classroom?
- These critical skills, once fostered can be transferred across the curriculum.
- Transferable skills will result in students becoming more independent in their learning
- Critical skills encourage higher order thinking such as evaluation and creativity.
- Students are at the centre of their own learning, the teacher acts as a facilitator.
- Use of the critical skills approach aid learning by students retaining knowledge.