Skills Library
Skills Library
Manage skills for student transcripts
Affective Skills
Compassion
Feeling of sympathy with another person’s feelings of sorrow or distress, often involving a desire to help or comfort that person
Educational & Occupational Attitudes
Relatively enduring and general evaluations of objects relevant to school or work that exist on an emotional dimension ranging from negative to positive that influence one’s approach to ideas, persons, and situations associated with educational or occupational settings
Empathy
Vicarious experience of another person’s feelings, emotions, and perspectives.
Growth Mindset
The belief that talents can be developed through persistent work, learning from risk taking and mistakes, and input from others
Self-Regulation
Regulating one’s cognition and affect across different situations to maintain high motivation and energy through pursuing one’s goals and restorative activities
Stress Management
Regulating and decreasing stress via behavioral activities (e.g., breathing techniques, meditation) to stay positive, practice gratitude, and find ways to let go of worry
Behavioral Skills
Adaptability
Working effectively in uncertain situations with shifting priorities by modifying one’s actions or learning new skills in light of changing tasks and goals
Building Relationships
Understanding the importance of trust, respect for human dignity, and equality, and using these principles to establish and maintain healthy and supportive relationships, negotiate conflict constructively, and navigate interactions with diverse individuals and groups
Civic Engagement
Playing an active role in the global and local community and the application of civic values
Collaboration
Working with others cooperatively and coordinating effectively to achieve collective goals
Communication
Use of context-relevant strategies, domain-specific codes and tools when interacting with others, including active listening, asking questions, synthesizing messages, storytelling, and public speaking
Decision-Making
The cognitive processes and actions that result in choosing between two or more alternatives.
Leadership
Processes involved in directing others’ efforts toward achieving individual, group, and/or organizational goals
Lifelong Learning
Understanding that learning takes place across the lifespan, having a positive attitude toward acquiring new skills across the lifespan, and engaging in acquiring new skills across the lifespan
People Skills
Behavioral interactions and behaviors to understand and manage the feelings of other individuals in team and other group settings to achieve individual or collective goals and develop productive working relationship to minimize conflict and maximize rapport
Perseverance
Overcoming obstacles and challenges by maintaining focus in the face of negative emotions, pursuing alternative routes to goal achievement, and persisting until the task is completed
Taking Initiative
Proactively taking the first step in a task, enterprise, or process
Cognitive Skills
Communication
Expressing ideas clearly and understanding others effectively
Creativity
Production or development of novel and useful outputs (e.g., understanding, perspectives, ideas, theories, products)
Critical Thinking
Analyzing information and making reasoned judgments
Critical Thinking
Understanding, managing, and analyzing information and arguments by making sound inferences, recognizing and evaluating assumptions, seeing rational connections, identifying patterns, constructing knowledge, and drawing evidence-based conclusions
Curiosity
The drive to investigate novel stimuli, including situations, people, and bodies of knowledge
Digital Literacy
Creating, consuming, analyzing, and adapting in productive and responsible ways to utilize technology and communication tools in social, academic, and professional settings
Disciplinary Literacies
Academic or subject specific literacy enabling learners to read, write, and speak like experts in a particular subject, including disciplinary knowledge, practices, and application skills
Educational & Occupational Awareness
Perception or knowledge of environments, people, facts, principles, and rules concerning school- or work-related topics and settings
Educational & Occupational Values
Internal representations and perceptions of who one is as a person and how one wishes to define and lead a meaningful and satisfying life through their educational and occupational careers
Metacognition
Thinking about one’s own cognition
Problem Solving
The mental processes individuals use when they formulate plans and translate them into prospective actions for identifying a problem, gathering and evaluating information, developing solution paths, executing action plans, attempting to overcome difficulties, drawing conclusions, and adjusting to situational changes
Reasoning
Logic-based thinking processes of an inductive or deductive nature that are used to draw evidence-based conclusions from data, facts, or premises
Sensemaking
Gathering and interpreting data to rationalize and understand personal experiences and the world they live in and develop a personal sense of meaning
Systems Thinking
Mental analyses of any system in order to understand system elements, the interconnections among the elements that drive the system to work as a whole, and how its constituent elements function both individually and in relation to each other
Transformative Competencies
Competencies to transform the society and shape one’s future to address the growing need to be innovative, responsible, and aware, including abilities to create new value, resolving and reconciling tensions and dilemmas, and taking responsibility