Key+Competencies

= Key Competencies =

At PMPS, we have developed a school wide shared understanding of the key competencies and the impact these will have on teaching and learning. This was achieved by professional readings, several staff meetings throughout the year discussing what the key competencies should look like and sound like at PMPS. A teacher only day was spent on developing some definitions for the key competencies in child speak and success criteria for each competency and revisiting these throughout the year. We have embedded the key competencies into our planning documentation; our inquiry learning process, posters with school definitions and criteria are displayed in all classrooms for teachers and students to refer to regularly and have explored ways to embed into our school pastoral care programme. The definitions we have developed will mean the staff and students have a common language to immerse our students in the key competencies. We have agreed that the KC’s will be applied simultaneously and will not be separated in delivery and/or assessment. This simultaneous synergy will strengthen the effect of applying the key competencies into all teaching and learning areas.

**// Key Competencies //** Competencies are integrated, holistic and complex. The include the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed for living, learning, working and contributing to the life of the community. Key competencies needed by everyone across many life contexts. School is only one of those contexts, and the matter of transfer or generalisation from school to life need to be considered.
 * Students are supported to develop the key competencies on pages 12 -13, NZC ||

· Use creative, critical, and metacognitive processes to make sense of information, experiences and ideas. · Can be applied to purposes such as developing understanding, making decisions, shaping actions, or constructing knowledge. · Reflect on their own learning, draw on personal knowledge and intuitions, ask questions, and challenge the basis of assumptions and perceptions. · Competent thinkers and problem solvers actively see, use, a nd create knowledge. · Intellectual curiosity is at the heart of this competency. · Working with and making meaning of the codes in with knowledge is expressed. · Systems for representing and communicating information, experience, and ideas. · Use languages and symbols to produce texts of all kinds: written, oral, and visual: informative and imaginative: informal and formal: mathematical, scientific, and technological. · Can interpret and use words, number, images, movement, metaphor, and technologies in a range of contexts. · Recognise how choices of language, symbol, ot text affect people’s understanding and the ways in which they respond to communications. · Confidently use ICT to assess and provide information and communication with others. · Self motivation, a “can-do” attitude, and students seeing themselves as capable learners. · Enterprising, resourceful, reliable, and resilient. · Establish personal goals, make plans, manage projects, set high standards, and strategies for meeting challenges. · Know when to lead, to follow, and when and how to act independently. · Interacting effectively with a diverse range of people in a variety of contexts. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Ability to listen actively, recognise different points of view, negotiate, and share ideas. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Open to new learning and able to take different roles in different situations. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Aware of how their words and actions affect others. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Know when it is appropriate to compete and when it is appropriate to c o operate. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Come up new approaches, ideas, and ways of thinking. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Actively involved in communities (family, whanau and school and those based, for example, on a common interest or culture. They may be drawn together for purposes such as learning, work, celebration, or recreation. They may be local, national, or global. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  A capacity to contribute appropriately as a group member, to make connections with others, and to create opportunities for others in the group. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  Have confidence to participate within new contexts. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Understand the importance of balancing rights, roles and responsibilities and of contributing to the quality and sustainability of social, cultural, physical, and economic environments. || ** Thinking is…. ** Working things out in my head. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Ask questions <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Accept my mistakes and learn from them <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Talk about my own learning <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Choose and use many different thinking tools to problem solve <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Think about thinking
 * ** NZC ** || ** Pigeon **** Mountain Primary School ** ||
 * Five major competencies which we support students to develop || In our school we emphasis students’ development for the following: ||
 * ** Thinking **
 * Using language, symbols and texts **
 * Managing Self **
 * Relating to others **
 * Participating and contributing **

Learning to understand and show what things mean. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Know that learning is shown in many different ways <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Find the best way to share what I know <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Explore and express ways of communicating
 * Using language, symbols and texts is…. **

Knowing why I think, learn, and act in a certain way. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Set my own goals <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Challenge myself <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Know myself as a person and a learner
 * Managing self is…. **

Getting along with different people in different situations. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Share my thoughts and ideas <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Listen to others and consider their thoughts and ideas <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Take turns and co operate when working and playing together <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Understand and imagine what it’s like to be someone else
 * Relating to others is …. **

The chance to change things that are important to me. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Involve myself in making decisions <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Take responsibility for my own actions <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Belong to groups and be an active participant ||
 * Participating and contributing is…. **

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