7COMPETENCES

September 13th, 2013

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WHAT IS A COMPETENCY?

A competency is a persistent pattern of behavior resulting from a cluster of:

knowledge, skills, abilities, motivations - attitudes, values, beliefs personality… that define a coherent facet of overall competence needed for exceptional performance.

Competences

Skills/Abilities:OperationalRelationalCognitive

Knowledge:General: science, history, geography

Contextual: environment, students, home, community

Procedural: the way you teach, they learn it and apply it!

Attitudes/Values:Emotional/

valuesPsycological

Standards for Teacher Competence

in Education 1. Teachers should be skilled in

choosing assessment methods appropriate for instructional decisions. 

2. Teachers should be skilled in developing assessment methods appropriate for instructional decisions. 

4-  Teachers should be skilled in using assessment results when making decisions about individual students, planning teaching, and school improvement. 

5- The teacher should be skilled in administering, scoring and interpreting the results of both externally-produced and teacher-produced assessment methods

IN A SENTENCE

A COMPETENCY manifests itself in observable, effective, persistent BEHAVIOR, that has been enabled by KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, AND ABILITY and energized by MOTIVES (VALUES, ATTITUDES, BELIEFS).

My turn to teachAs a practice you will:

Write 3 objective you have used in your lesson plans.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OBJECTIVE AND COMPETENCE

DEFINITION EXAMPLES

Learning objectives are written in terms of learning outcomes: What do you want your students to learn as a result of the lesson?

After completing the lesson, the student will be able to:listen for the purpose of following directions . . .

DEFINITION EXAMPLES

A specific range of skill, knowledge, or ability.

Uses different purposes of following directions in order to communicate with others.

Objectives Competence

BASIC ELEMENTS TO WRITE COMPETENCIES

VERB CONCEPTUAL CONTENT

CONTEXTUAL PURPOSE

CONDITION OR REFERENCE

Verb in the third person sigular

Action With the purpose of, to, in order to, etc.

Taking into account, in function of, according to, etc

Concrete, observable action of an activity which can be demonstrated through performance

The object which the action refers to. The what?

The action objective which always refers to the aplication of the performance. It is the why? And where?

The indicator with which we express the quality of the obtained performance.

Selects Healthy foods In order to avoid over weight and illneses.

Taking into account different menues

How to write a Competence?

Ask yourself: What to the students need to

know? To identify the required theorical knowledge.

What procedures do they have follow? To identify the necessary practical knowledge.

How do they have to be or act? To indicate attitudes and values .

Desired Effects

• Changes in learning behavior in desired directions (e.g., language skills)

• More explicit guidance for students• More authentic and relevant teaching

and assessment.

EXAMPLE OF HOW TO WRITE COMPETENCES

• Competences teachers should develop in this seminar:

• PRACTICE:VERB CONCEPTUAL

CONTENTCONTEXTUAL

PURPOSECONDITION OR

REFERENCE

Identifies Conceptual differences of the

purpose, objective and competence

To write competencies

Based on the methodological

description

VERB CONCEPTUAL CONTENT

CONTEXTUAL PURPOSE

CONDITION OR REFERENCE

HOMEWORK

• Use your English program to write 5 competencies for a grade of your choice.

THANK YOU