Nine Generic Skills (updated in 2016): Communication Skills Communication skills refer to the abilities to achieve the desired outcomes or goals in a process where two or more people interact (be it in a face-to-face or virtual context) through expressing or receiving messages using verbal and non-verbal means. To communicate effectively, students should learn to listen, speak, read and write competently. Not only should they express themselves in an accurate, organised and proper manner, but also understand and respect others’ views and expectations, and use appropriate information and means to convey a message in accordance with the purpose, context and audience. They should also evaluate the effectiveness of their communication and identify areas for improvement to achieve the best results. Key Stage 1 Key 2 Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4 Students will to Students will learn to Students will learn to Students will to comprehend and act comprehend and respond to understand, analyse, evaluate listen and read critically, evaluate appropriately on spoken different types of texts and respond to a range of the messages conveyed in instructions different types of texts information from different media comprehend and infer the and express ideas fluently in comprehend the explicit messages conveyed in synthesise the messages accordance with the audience and messages conveyed in information from different conveyed in information from reader information from different media different media media use appropriate means of use spoken, written, graphic use appropriate language communication to inform, use clear and appropriate and non-verbal means of and/or other forms of entertain, persuade and argue to means of communication, expression to convey communication to present achieve expected outcomes both verbal and non-verbal, information and opinions, and information and different to express meaning and to explain ideas points of view, and to express resolve conflicts and solve feelings feelings problems with others to work and negotiate with accomplish tasks work and discuss with others others to develop ideas and work and negotiate with others to accomplish simple tasks accomplish tasks to problems and evaluate the effectiveness of their accomplish tasks communication with others from different further reflect and improve on the improvement effectiveness of their own communication
Nine Generic Skills (updated in 2016): Communication Skills Communication skills refer to the abilities to achieve the desired outcomes or goals in a process where two or more people interact (be it in a face-to-face or virtual context) through expressing or receiving messages using verbal and non-verbal means. To communicate effectively, students should learn to listen, speak, read and write competently. Not only should they express themselves in an accurate, organised and proper manner, but also understand and respect others’ views and expectations, and use appropriate information and means to convey a message in accordance with the purpose, context and audience. They should also evaluate the effectiveness of their communication and identify areas for improvement to achieve the best results. Key Stage 1 Key 2 Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4 Students will to comprehend and act appropriately on spoken instructions comprehend the explicit messages conveyed in information from different media use clear and appropriate means of communication, both verbal and non-verbal, to express meaning and feelings work and discuss with others to accomplish simple tasks Students will learn to comprehend and respond to different types of texts comprehend and infer the messages conveyed in information from different media use spoken, written, graphic and non-verbal means of expression to convey information and opinions, and to explain ideas work and negotiate with others to develop ideas and accomplish tasks Students will learn to understand, analyse, evaluate and respond to a range of different types of texts synthesise the messages conveyed in information from different media use appropriate language and/or other forms of communication to present information and different points of view, and to express feelings work and negotiate with others to problems and accomplish tasks reflect and improve on the effectiveness of their own communication Students will to listen and read critically, evaluate the messages conveyed in information from different media and express ideas fluently in accordance with the audience and reader use appropriate means of communication to inform, entertain, persuade and argue to achieve expected outcomes resolve conflicts and solve problems with others to accomplish tasks evaluate the effectiveness of their communication with others from different further improvement
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