•What are they?

• Why are they important?

Stephen Williams

Coleg Sir Gâr

SLT Section

1st THREE KEY SKILLS:

• Application of Number

• Communication

• ICT

How many Key Skills are there?

3 WIDER KEY SKILLS

•Improving own learning and performance

•Working with others

•Problem solving

HOW ARE KEY SKILLS ASSESSED?

Portfolio

• You will produce a portfolio (file) for your Key Skills work

• It will contain new work, or copies of work completed in your other school work.

Skills lacking in school / college leavers

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Important skills for all occupations

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Application of number

• Not maths!

• As the title suggests it uses number in a “real-world” setting e.g. holidays, shopping, money.

• One portfolio task with three parts– Find data– Perform calculations– Present findings

COMMUNICATION• Not English

• Deals with your ability to convey information

• Portfolio tasks involve :

– Group discussion– Short talk– Summary– Writing documents e.g. letters, reports

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

TECHNOLOGYPortfolio involves :

• Finding information e.g. search-engines

• Using diferent packges e.g. Access, Excel

• Presenting data e.g. Powerpoint

• E-mail

“Widers”

• Improving own learning and performance

•Involves you setting a goal

•Working towards improvement

•Evaluating success

Examples could include :

•Getting a qualification

•Improving fitness / skill

•Learning to drive

•Passing coursework

•Musical skills

•Getting a job

•Language skills

• Working with others

•Involves planning work with a partner /

team

•Working together on a task

•Evaluating how good you were as a team

Examples could include :

•Planning a charity fundraising activity

•Working on a presentation / coursework

•Training together

•Promoting an event

• Problem solving

•Involves thinking of different ways of

tackling a problem

•Trying out one of your methods

•Evaluating success

•Could be for school e.g. completing all coursework on time

•Could be health / sporting e.g. trying to gain / weight / run faster

•Could be a personal e.g.how to quit smoking

Take a problem and straighten

it out!

You can study KS at 5 levels :

Levels 1 - 2 might be at school

Levels 2 – 3 could be at college

Levels 4 – 5 may be at university / employment

…THEREFORE KEY SKILLS ARE

FOR LIFE!

More information

• See the Key Skills module on Moodle :

Key Skills SLT

Any questions to :

stephen.williams@colegsirgar.ac.uk