Transferable Skills
Starting in 2018-2019, Ontario students are assessed on Transferrable Skills such as critical thinking, global citizenship, communication and collaboration. According to the document Transferable Skills (n.d.),
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Skills for Success After Secondary School GLS4O/GLE4O/GLE3O
Learning Skills
Overall Expectations:
By the end of this course, students will:
- analyse their learning skills and styles to determine their learning strengths and needs, and develop strategies to maximize their learning while in secondary school and throughout their lives
Specific Expectations:
Planning for Learning
By the end of this course, students will:
Visual Art 1202
Understanding and Connecting Contexts of Time, Place and Community
Overall Expectations:
GCO 3: Students will be expected to demonstrate critical awareness of and the value for the role of the arts in creating and reflecting culture
Specific Expectations:
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Self-Directed Learning
Overall Expectations:
Self-directed learning involves becoming aware of and managing one’s own process of learning. It includes developing dispositions that support motivation, self-regulation, perseverance, adaptability, and resilience. It also calls for a growth mindset – a belief in one’s ability to learn – combined with the use of strategies for planning, reflecting on, and monitoring progress towards one’s goals, and reviewing potential next steps, strategies, and results.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship
Overall Expectations:
Innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship support the ability to turn ideas into action in order to meet the needs of a community. These skills include the capacity to develop concepts, ideas, or products for the purpose of contributing innovative solutions to economic, social, and environmental problems.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Digital Literacy
Overall Expectations:
Digital literacy involves the ability to solve problems using technology in a safe, legal, and ethically responsible manner. With the ever-expanding role of digitalization and big data in the modern world, digital literacy also means having strong data literacy skills and the ability to engage with emerging technologies. Digitally literate students recognize the rights and responsibilities, as well as the opportunities, that come with living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Collaboration
Overall Expectations:
Collaboration involves the interplay of the cognitive (thinking and reasoning), interpersonal, and intrapersonal competencies needed to work with others effectively and ethically. These skills deepen as they are applied, with increasing versatility, to co-construct knowledge, meaning, and content with others in diverse situations, both physical and virtual, that involve a variety of roles, groups, and perspectives.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Communication
Overall Expectations:
Communication involves receiving and expressing meaning (e.g., through reading and writing, viewing and creating, listening and speaking) in different contexts and with different audiences and purposes. Effective communication increasingly involves understanding local and global perspectives and societal and cultural contexts, and using a variety of media appropriately, responsibly, safely, and with a view to creating a positive digital footprint
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Global Citizenship and Sustainability
Overall Expectations:
Global citizenship and sustainability involves understanding diverse world views and perspectives in order to effectively address the various political, environmental, social, and economic issues that are central to living sustainably in today’s interconnected and interdependent world. It also involves acquiring the knowledge, motivation, dispositions, and skills required for engaged citizenship, along with an appreciation of the diversity of people and perspectives in the world. It calls for the ability to envision and work towards a better and more sustainable future for all.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Overall Expectations:
Critical thinking and problem solving involve locating, processing, analysing, and interpreting relevant and reliable information to address complex issues and problems, make informed judgements and decisions, and take effective action. With critical thinking skills comes an awareness that solving problems can have a positive impact in the world, and this contributes to achieving one’s potential as a constructive and reflective citizen.