CM 1.01 Notes - SCANS Name:

Understand individual characteristics/traits, interests/preferences, ability levels, skill acquisition, talents/aptitudes, learning styles and values.

Identify & summarize personal characteristics

•  Attitude

•  Personality

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SCANS

•  Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS)

•  SCANS are

•  SCANS' Five Competencies

•  *Resources:

•  *Interpersonal:

•  Information:

•  Systems:

•  Technology:

•  A Three-Part Foundation of SCANS Skills and Personal Qualities

•  Basic Skills:

•  Thinking Skills:

•  Personal Qualities:

SCANS Basic Skills

•  ______- Locates, understands and interprets written information in documents such as manuals, graphs, and schedules

•  ______ - Communicates thoughts, ideas, information and messages in writing; and creates documents such as letters, reports and graphs

•  ______ - Performs basic computations by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical techniques

•  ______ - Receives, interprets, and responds to verbal messages

•  ______- Organizes ideas and communicates orally

SCANS Thinking Skills

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- Generates new ideas

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- Specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses best alternatives

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- Recognizes problems, devises and implements plan of action

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- Organizes and processes symbols, pictures, graphs, objects and other information

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- Uses learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills

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- Identifies principals underlying the relationship between two or more objectives and applies it in solving a problem

SCANS Personality Qualities

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- Displays high standards in approaching and completing tasks

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- Believes in own self-worth and maintains a positive view of self

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- Demonstrates understanding and courtesy to others

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- Sets personal goals, monitors progress, and exhibits self-control

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- Chooses ethical courses of action

SCANS Resources

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- Identifies activities, prioritizes, allocates time, and prepares and follows schedules

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- Uses or prepares budgets, keeps records, and makes adjustments to meet objectives

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- Acquires, stores, allocates and uses materials or space efficiently

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- Assesses skills and distributes work accordingly, evaluates performance and provides feedback

SCANS Interpersonal

•  Social Skills –

•  Teaches Others New Skills -

•  Serves Clients/Customers

•  Exercises Leadership

•  Negotiates –

•  Works with Diversity

Abilities

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•  Ex) Dexterity

•  skill using the hands or body

Interest Inventory

•  A periodic survey of a person’s interests.

•  Designed to help people

•  From an Interesting Inventory, you can learn if someone likes to:

•  Work

•  Work

•  Work

Positive self-concept vs. Poor self-concept

•  Self-concept is how people

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•  Know what their strengths and abilities are and develop and use these to achieve worthwhile goals. They also acknowledge their weaknesses without putting themselves down because of them, and work to overcome and master these

•  A person will positive self-concept can easily over-come ______

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•  The person who is usually conceited, arrogant or proud is covering up a poor self-concept

•  A person with poor self-concept is usually afraid of ______and ______other people

Different Types of Learners

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