Life Skills
5 Minds for the Future...Howard Gardner
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The Creating Mind -- the capacity to uncover and clarify new problems, questions and phenomena |
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The Ethical Mind -- fulfillment of one's responsibilities as a worker and as a citizen. |
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The Synthesizing Mind -- the ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent whole and to communicate that integration to others. |
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The Respectful Mind -- awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings and human groups |
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The Disciplinary Mind -- the mastery of major schools of thought (including science, mathematics, and history) and of at least one professional craft. |
Projects as vehicles for
learning:
from WPI |
Soft-Skills Study skills fall into the category of “soft skills,” as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration. Soft skills are the problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills that a person employs. They are perhaps best defined as the opposite of “hard skills,” which are the technical skills required to complete a job.
| The Carnegie Mellon Foundation and Stanford Research Institute surveyed Fortune 500 CEOs, identifying the most critical skills. They concluded that 75% of long-term career success depends on soft skills, such as: the ability to process and organize new information, solve problems, think critically, manage time and deadlines, communicate effectively with others, etc. Only 25% of long-term success, however, depends on technical “content” knowledge. |
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You will always feel like you’re slogging uphill until you are empowered to learn strategically. Strategic learning skills are the great differentiator – they put you in the driver’s seat. They teach how to learn by asking questions and navigating your way with high-level thinking skills. Strategic learning skills teach how to:
softskills.com/engineeringlens |
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Elevator Speech Create a for-profit company that provides after-school programs to high school, college and recent high school graduates. The classes will focus on three aspects of Skill development; 1-What are the students’ needs and what skills do they have, 2- The skill training the students’ needs to be successful in school and work and 3- A follow up plan to continuously improve on those skills. The classes are designed to engage the students in a fun and mindful manner covers topics such as Character development, Problem Solving and Entrepreneurship, Thinking skills, Project Leadership, Dealing with others and various life related skills.
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| 80/20 says that all of your efforts are not equal |
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80% of the impact you have in your life, on your: family, colleagues, community comes from only 20% of your efforts! When you harness your “top 20%” efforts intentionally, you quickly find yourself feeling more and more effective…and less stressed.
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| Corporate overview of needs by IBM |