La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § LXXI-905

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section LXXI-905 - Foundation Skills

A. Basic Skills

1. Reading: Locates, understands and interprets written information in prose and documents: including manuals, graphs, and schedules: to perform tasks; learns from text by determining the main idea or essential message; identifies relevant details, facts and specifications; infers or locates the meaning of unknown or technical vocabulary; judges the accuracy, appropriateness, style and plausibility of reports, proposals or theories of other writers.

2. Writing: Communicates thoughts, ideas, information and messages in writing; records information completely and accurately; composes and creates documents such as letters, directions, manuals, reports, proposals, graphs, flow-charts; uses language, style, organization and format appropriate to the subject matter, purpose and audience; includes supporting documentation and attends to level of detail; and checks, edits and revises for correct information, appropriate emphasis, form, grammar, spelling and punctuation.

3. Arithmetic: Performs basic computations; uses basic numerical concepts such as whole numbers and percentages in practical situations; makes reasonable estimates of arithmetic results without a calculator; and uses tables, graphs, diagrams and charts to obtain or convey quantitative information.

4. Mathematics: Performs computational skills needed in maintaining records, estimating results, using spreadsheets or applying statistical process.

5. Listening: Receives, attends to, interprets and responds to oral messages and other cues such as body language in ways that are appropriate to the purpose: for example, to comprehend, to learn, to evaluate critically, to appreciate, or to support the speaker.

6. Speaking: Organizes ideas and communicates oral messages appropriate to listeners and situations: participates in conversation, discussion and group presentations; selects an appropriate medium for conveying a message; uses oral language and other cues such as body language appropriate in style, tone and level of complexity to the audience and the occasion; speaks clearly and communicates a message; understands and responds to listener feedback; and asks questions when needed.

B. Thinking Skills

1. Creative Thinking: Uses imagination freely, combines ideas or information in new ways, makes connections between seemingly unrelated ideas, and reshapes goals in ways that reveal new possibilities.

2. Decision Making: Specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses best alternative.

3. Problem Solving: Recognizes that a problem exists (i.e., there is a discrepancy between what is and what should or could be); identifies possible reasons for the discrepancy; devises and implements a plan of action to resolve it; evaluates and monitors progress; and revises plan as indicated by findings.

4. Seeing Things in the Mind's Eye: Organizes and processes symbols, pictures, graphs, objects or other information: for example, sees a building from a blueprint; a system's operation from schematics; the flow of work activities from narrative descriptions; or the taste of food from reading a recipe.

5. Knowing How to Learn: Uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills.

6. Reasoning: Discovers a rule or principle underlying the relationship between two or more objects and applies it in solving a problem.

C. Personal Qualities

1. Responsibility: Exerts a high level of effort and perseverance toward goal attainment; works hard to become excellent at doing tasks by setting high standards, paying attention to details, working well and displaying a high level of concentration even when assigned an unpleasant task; and displays high standards of attendance, punctuality, enthusiasm, vitality, and optimism in approaching and completing tasks.

2. Self-Esteem: Believes in own self-worth and maintains a positive view of self.

3. Social: Demonstrates understanding, friendliness, adaptability, empathy and politeness in new and on-going group settings; asserts self in familiar and unfamiliar social situations; relates well to others; responds appropriately as the situation requires; and takes an interest in what others say and do.

4. Self-Management: Assesses own knowledge, skills and abilities accurately; sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; monitors progress toward goal attainment and motivates self through goal achievement; exhibits self-control and responds to feedback unemotionally and non-defensively; and is a "self-starter."

5. Integrity/Honesty: Chooses ethical courses of action.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § LXXI-905

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 29:2700 (December 2003).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6(A)(10) and R.S. 17:10.