SCANS Skills
SCANS* | Alaska Content Standards |
Basic Skills – reading, writing, arithmetic and mathematics, listening, and speaking • Locates, understands, and interprets written information in prose and in documents such as manuals, graphs, and schedules |
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Thinking Skills – creative thinking, decision making, problem solving, seeing things in the mind’s eye, knowing how to learn, and reasoning • Generates new ideas |
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Personal Qualities – responsibility, self esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity and honesty • Exerts a high level of effort and perseveres toward goal attainment |
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* Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills
SCANS | Alaska Content Standards |
Resources – allocate time, money, materials, space and staff. • Selects goal-relevant activities, ranks them, allocates time, and prepares and follows schedules |
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Interpersonal Skills – Participate in teams, teach others new skills, serve clients and customers, exercise leadership, negotiate, and work with diversity. • Contributes to group effort |
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Information – Acquire and evaluate information, organize and maintain information, interpret and communicate information, and use computers to process information. |
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SCANS | Alaska Content Standards |
Systems – Understand systems, monitor a correct performance and improve or design systems. • Knows how social, organizational, and technological systems work and operates effectively with them |
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Technology – Select technology, apply technology to task, maintain and troubleshoot equipment. • Chooses procedures, tools, or equipment including computers and related technologies |
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