Shape It! and The Cambridge Life Competencies Framework
How can we prepare our students to succeed in a world that is rapidly changing? We need to help students develop transferrable skills, to work with people from around the world, to think creatively, to analyse sources critically and communicate their views effectively. How can we teach these alongside language?
In response to these questions, Cambridge University Press has developed The Cambridge Life Competencies Framework. This Framework underpins the syllabus for the Learn to Learn pages and the collaborative project work in Shape It!, helping teachers recognise and assess the many transferrable skills that the course develops.
The Framework is split into 3 levels of detail. First, there are 6 Areas of Competency. Each area is then split into the Competencies your students need to develop in these areas. Finally, within each Competency, there are a number of Can Do Statements, which outline how a student, depending on their age, would demonstrate this Competency.
Let’s take the Learning to Learn area as an example:
Learning to Learn
These competencies are developed in the Learn to Learn feature which appears throughout the unit and in the Learn to learn page at the end of each unit.Â
This page from Level 1 Unit 1 helps students organise their notebook by encouraging them to look at an example of a notebook, compare it with their own, and finally, reflect on how theirs could be improved.
Collaboration
The collaboration area of The Cambridge Life Competencies Framework also plays a huge part in the course, through projects in Student’s Book and in the Teacher’s Resource Bank online. All of which have extensive support and guidance in the Project Book.
This project from Level 1 Unit 6 asks students to analyse some of the key features of a model project before planning and creating their own. Finally, they can evaluate other groups’ tasks.
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