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.
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,
Composing texts through speaking writing and creating
Text knowledge
Grammar knowledge
Word Knowledge
Visual Knowledge
ICT Capability
Communication with ICT
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
Intercultural Understanding
Interacting and empathising with others
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
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
Self management
Social Awareness
Ethical Understanding
Understanding ethical concepts and issues
Reasoning in decision making and actions
Exploring values, rights & responsibilities
Intercultural Understanding
Recognising culture and developing respect
Reflecting on intercultural experiences and taking responsibility.
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
Reflecting on thinking and processes
- think about thinking (metacognition)
- reflect on processes
- transfer knowledge into new contexts.
Research: Information Literacy
Investigating with ICT
Identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas
Numeracy
Interpreting statistical information
Using Spatial reasoning
Using fractions, decimals, ratio's, percentages & rates
- define and plan information searches
- locate, generate and access data and information
- select and evaluate data and information.
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.
- 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
Creating with ICT
Managing and Operating with 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.
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
Critical & Creative thinking
Reflecting on thinking and processes
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
Numeracy
Using fractions, decimals, ratio's, percentages & rates
Recognising and using patterns and relationships
Estimating and calculating with whole numbers
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.