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Almeda Elementary Investigating ScienceToday’s life and work environments require far more than thinking skills and content knowledge. The ability to navigate the complex life and work environments in the globally competitive information age requires students to pay rigorous attention to developing adequate life and career skills. According to leading researchers, caution should be exercised when attempting to link high-stakes testing and high standards to the creation of a productive workforce (Levin, 2001). Levin's studies in the 1990s led him to conclude that how well students do on current tests in no way correlates to how productive they will be in the workforce. High productivity currently is not a high-stakes focus of schools, yet the skills involved in this cluster often determine whether a person succeeds or fails in the workforce.

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  • Interpersonal and Collaboration Skills:The ability to read and manage the emotions, motivations, and behaviors of oneself and others during social interactions or in a social-interactive context. Collaboration means cooperative interaction between two or more individuals working together to solve problems, create novel products, or learn and master content.

  • Self Direction: The ability to set goals, plan for achievement, initiate action, manage time and effort and independently monitor and assess one's own effort.

  • Adaptability: The ability to modify one's thinking, attitudes, or behaviors to be better suited to current or future environments, as well as the ability to handle multiple goals, tasks, and inputs with understanding and adhering to constraints of time, resources and systems.

  • Ethical Bahavior:The ability to act with integrity according to the principles of right and /or moral conduct.

  • Social/Personal Accountability: The acceptance of responsibility for personal actions, including responsibility for learning, and initiate or support actions that resolve issues in the interest of the common good.

  • Leadership: The process of influence or example by which an individual induces a group to pursue objectives held by the leader or shared by the leader and his or her followers.



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