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Skills Builder

Main Principles

The Skills Builder methodology provides a basic overview of what students should be able to do and offers strategies and methods to develop the skills.

Provides step-by-step guidance for the development of social and emotional competences

Offers ready-made activities for classes

Works with established definitions and helps with verbal assessment

Provides tools to monitor student's progress

Ability to listen
Beginner

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Step 2

Step 3

Intermediate

Step 4

Step 5

Step 6

Advanced

Step 7

Step 8

Step 9

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Expert

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Step 12

Step 13

Step 14

Step 15

Each skill has 16 steps

The individual skills are divided into 16 steps. For each step, a goal is defined and what the students should be able to do when mastering it. The sub-knowledge and strategies to achieve the goal and develop the skill are also described.

These sub-sections are structured so that educators can easily use them in the classroom. Students progress from simple to complex, each successive step presupposes mastery of the previous step.

Skills Builder workflow

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Targeting a specific step

After identifying the stage of skill acquisition, the teacher selects a specific step.
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Tracking progress

The teacher reflects on pupils' progress, monitoring whether and how pupils have understood the step and whether they are sufficiently confident in it.

Benefits of the Skills Builder methodology

It is comprehensive and structured

It guides through all levels - from beginners to masters.

It is instructive

It provides very specific activities and procedures for the development of 8 soft skills.

It is inclusive

It is designed for all students and offers strategies for developing even those skills for which students have no natural talent.

Helps teachers at all stages

With lesson planning, giving feedback, setting up a reward system and anchoring the terminology into everyday practice.
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16 Steps to Mastery

Download the Principles and the Framework Program with all the skills and steps.

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Materials

In addition to the know-how itself, the methodology also includes a set of support materials to help teachers motivate and reflect on pupils skills and monitor the progress.

Methodological materials and aids

Skills Builder Methodological Portal

Teacher's Guide - Guides to Skills Development

Posters with Skill Steps

Skills Certificates

Pupil Records

Stickers

Skills Posters

Progress Recor

"Thanks to the Skills Builder methodology, my colleague and I started using the expre Attentive Listening instead of LISTEN in our first grade classes."

— Teacher involved in the Skills Builder project

Skills Builder as an assistant to the SPP

The methodology offers a sophisticated procedure for the development of key competences of primary school pupils. It also helps with verbal assessment. Skills Builder can be easily integrated into the curriculum in diferent levels of education.

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