Today’s Warm-Up!

•What are basic skills? Give a few examples.

Why are these skills important?

1.01Understand individual characteristics/traits, interests/preferences, ability levels, skill acquisition, talents/aptitudes, learning styles and values.Essential Question: Who am I??

Identify & summarize personal characteristics• Attitude• One’s outlook on life; how one reacts to

a situation.

• Personality• The visible aspect of one's character as it

impresses others• A person as an embodiment of a

collection of qualities

SCANS

• Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS)

• SCANS are various learned abilities to perform tasks or duties of various occupations

SCANS

• SCANS' Five Competencies• *Resources: Identifies, organizes, plans, and

allocates resources • *Interpersonal: Works with others • Information: Acquires and evaluates

information • Systems: Understands complex

interrelationships • Technology: Works with a variety of

technologies

SCANS

• A Three-Part Foundation of SCANS Skills and Personal Qualities• Basic Skills: Reads, writes, performs arithmetic

and mathematical operations, listens, and speaks • Thinking Skills: Thinks creatively, makes

decisions, solves problems, visualizes, knows how to learn, and reasons • Personal Qualities: Responsibility, self-esteem,

sociability, self-management, integrity, and honesty

SCANS Basic Skills• Reading - Locates, understands and interprets

written information in documents such as manuals, graphs, and schedules • Writing - Communicates thoughts, ideas, information

and messages in writing; and creates documents such as letters, reports and graphs• Mathematics - Performs basic computations by

choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical techniques• Listening - Receives, interprets, and responds to

verbal messages• Speaking - Organizes ideas and communicates orally

SCANS Thinking Skills

• Creative Thinking - Generates new ideas• Decision Making - Specifies goals and

constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses best alternatives• Problem Solving - Recognizes problems,

devises and implements plan of action

SCANS Thinking Skills• Visualization - Organizes and processes

symbols, pictures, graphs, objects and other information• Knowing How To Learn - Uses learning

techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills• Reasoning - Identifies principals underlying

the relationship between two or more objectives and applies it in solving a problem

SCANS Personality Qualities

• Responsibility - Displays high standards in approaching and completing tasks• Self-Esteem - Believes in own self-worth and

maintains a positive view of self• Sociability - Demonstrates understanding and

courtesy to others• Self-Management - Sets personal goals,

monitors progress, and exhibits self-control• Honesty/Integrity - Chooses ethical courses of

action

SCANS Resources

• Time - Identifies activities, prioritizes, allocates time, and prepares and follows schedules• Money - Uses or prepares budgets, keeps

records, and makes adjustments to meet objectives• Materials and Facilities - Acquires, stores,

allocates and uses materials or space efficiently• Human Resources - Assesses skills and

distributes work accordingly, evaluates performance and provides feedback

SCANS Interpersonal• Social Skills - Team member - contributes to

group effort• Teaches Others New Skills - Helps others learn• Serves Clients/Customers - Works to satisfy

customers’ expectations• Exercises Leadership - Communicates ideas,

persuades others, responsibly challenges existing procedures and policies• Negotiates - Works toward agreements involving

diverse interests• Works with Diversity - Respects differences

Abilities•Natural or acquired skills or talents

describe a person• Ex) Dexterity• skill using the hands or body

Interest Inventory• A periodic survey of a person’s interests.• Designed to help people match their

interests with occupational, educational and leisure pursuits• From an Interest Inventory, you can learn if

someone likes to:• Work with other people•Work outside•Work with their hands

Positive self-concept vs. Poor self-concept • Self-concept is how people view their own skills,

interests, and competence level.• Positive (Healthy) Self-Concept• Know what their strengths and abilities are and

develop and use these to achieve worthwhile goals. They also acknowledge their weaknesses without putting themselves down because of them, and work to overcome and master these• A person will positive self-concept can easily

over-come self-doubt

Positive vs. Poor Self-Concept

•Poor Self-Concept• The person who is usually

conceited, arrogant or proud is covering up a poor self-concept•A person with poor self-concept is

usually afraid of failure and displeasing people

Different Types of Learners

• Verbal-Linguistic: This intelligence relates to language, spoken and written. • Logical-Mathematical: This intelligence relates to

numbers, patterns, and inductive and deductive thinking. • Visual-Spatial: This intelligence relates to sight

and visualization, and internal mental images. • Bodily-Kinesthetic: This intelligence relates to

knowledge and awareness of the body and its movement and abilities.

Different Types of Learners• Musical: This intelligence relates to recognizing

sound and rhythm patterns. • Interpersonal: This intelligence relates to

communication and relation to other people. • Intrapersonal: This intelligence relates to inner

reflection and awareness, and meta-cognition. (Learning at their own pace). • Naturalist: This intelligence relates to recognition

of order and patterns in nature, such as in plants and animals.