ACARA - Australian National Capabilities and links with the IB ATL skills

ACARA website where the following information has been taken from.
​This website also offers a continuum which would support learning across the ATL skills.

Communication : Communication skills

Literacy
Comprehending texts through reading, viewing and listening, 
  • navigate, read and view learning area texts
  • listen and respond to learning area texts
  • interpret and analyse learning area texts.

Composing texts through speaking writing and creating
  • compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts
  • use language to interact with others
  • deliver presentations.

Text knowledge
  • use knowledge of text structures
  • use knowledge of text cohesion.

Grammar knowledge
  • use knowledge of sentence structures
  • use knowledge of words and word groups
  • express opinion and point of view.

Word Knowledge
  • understand learning area vocabulary
  • use spelling knowledge.

Visual Knowledge
  • understand how visual elements create meaning.

​ICT Capability
Communication with ICT
  • generate ideas, plans and processes
  • generate solutions to challenges and learning area tasks.​

Social : Collaboration Skills

Personal & Social Capability
Social Management
  • communicate effectively
  • work collaboratively
  • make decisions
  • negotiate and resolve conflict
  • develop leadership skills.

Intercultural Understanding
Interacting and empathising with others
  • communicate across cultures
  • consider and develop multiple perspectives
  • empathise with others.

Self Management: Organisation Skills

Personal & Social Capability
Self management 
  • develop self-discipline and set goals
  • work independently and show initiative
  • become confident, resilient and adaptable.

Self management: Affective skills

Personal & Social Capability
Self Awareness
  • recognise emotions
  • recognise personal qualities and achievements
  • understand themselves as learners
  • develop reflective practice.

​Self management 
  • express emotions appropriately

Social Awareness
  • appreciate diverse perspectives
  • contribute to civil society
  • understand relationships.

Ethical Understanding
Understanding ethical concepts and issues
  • recognise ethical concepts
  • explore ethical concepts in context.

Reasoning in decision making and actions
  • reason and make ethical decisions
  • consider consequences
  • reflect on ethical action.

Exploring values, rights & responsibilities
  • examine values
  • explore rights and responsibilities
  • consider points of view.

Intercultural Understanding
Recognising culture and developing respect
  • investigate culture and cultural identity
  • explore and compare cultural knowledge, beliefs and practices
  • develop respect for cultural diversity.

Reflecting on intercultural experiences and taking responsibility.
  • reflect on intercultural experiences
  • challenge stereotypes and prejudices
  • mediate cultural difference.

Self management: Reflection Skills

Critical & Creative thinking
Reflecting on thinking and processes
  • think about thinking (metacognition)
  • reflect on processes
  • transfer knowledge into new contexts.

Research: Information Literacy

Investigating with ICT
  • ​define and plan information searches
  • locate, generate and access data and information
  • select and evaluate data and information.

Critical & Creative thinking
Identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas
  • pose questions
  • identify and clarify information and ideas
  • organise and process information.

Numeracy
Interpreting statistical information
  • interpret data displays
  • interpret chance events.

Using measurement
  • estimate and measure with metric units
  • operate with clocks, calendars and timetables.

Using Spatial reasoning
  • estimate and measure with metric units
  • operate with clocks, calendars and timetables.

Using fractions, decimals, ratio's, percentages & rates
  • interpret proportional reasoning
  • apply proportional reasoning.

Research: Media literacy

Applying social & ethical protocols & practice when using ICT
  • recognise intellectual property
  • apply digital information security practices
  • apply personal security protocols
  • identify the impacts of ICT in society.

Creating with ICT
  • generate ideas, plans and processes
  • generate solutions to challenges and learning area tasks.

Managing and Operating with ICT
  • select and use hardware and software
  • understand ICT systems
  • manage digital data.
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Thinking: Critical Thinking skills

Analysing, Synthesising and evaluating reasoning and procedures.
  • apply logic and reasoning
  • draw conclusions and design a course of action
  • evaluate procedures and outcomes.

Thinking: Creative thinking

Creative Thinking
Generating Ideas, possibilities and action
  • imagine possibilities and connect ideas
  • consider alternatives
  • seek solutions and put ideas into action.

​Critical & Creative thinking
Reflecting on thinking and processes​
  • transfer knowledge into new contexts.

Thinking: Transfer skills

Critical & Creative thinking
Reflecting on thinking and processes​
  • transfer knowledge into new contexts.

​Numeracy
​Using fractions, decimals, ratio's, percentages & rates
  • interpret proportional reasoning
  • apply proportional reasoning.

Recognising and using patterns and relationships
  • identifying trends, describing and using a wide range of rules and relationships to continue and predict patterns.

Estimating and calculating with whole numbers
  • understand and use numbers in context
  • estimate and calculate
  • use money.