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Organization

 * Learning expectations:**
 * time management—including using time effectively in class, keeping to deadlines
 * self-management—including personal goal setting, organization of learning materials

What organizational tools do I have? What aspects of my organization do I need to develop? How can I best organize myself?
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Collaboration

 * Learning expectations:**
 * working in groups—including delegating and taking responsibility, adapting to roles, resolving group conflicts, demonstrating teamwork
 * accepting others—including analysing others' ideas, respecting others' points of view, using ideas critically
 * personal challenges—including respecting cultural differences, negotiating goals and limitations with peers and with teachers

How do I work with others? What successes have I had when I have worked with others? How can I work with others; how can they work with me?
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Communication

 * Learning expectations:**
 * literacy—including reading strategies, using and interpreting a range of content-specific terminology
 * being informed—including the use of a variety of media
 * informing others—including presentation skills using a variety of media

What communication tools do I use? Which ways of communicating do I need to improve on? How can I better communicate my understanding?
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Information literacy

 * Learning expectations:**
 * accessing information—including researching from a variety of sources using a range of technologies, identifying primary and secondary sources
 * selecting and organizing information—including identifying points of view, bias and weaknesses, using primary and secondary sources, making connections between a variety of resources
 * referencing—including the use of citing, footnotes and referencing of sources, respecting the concept of intellectual property rights

How can I access information? How do I know if the information is reliable? What will I do with this information?
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Reflection

 * Learning expectations:**
 * self-awareness—including seeking out positive criticism, reflecting on areas of perceived limitation
 * self-evaluation—including the keeping of learning journals and portfolios, reflecting at different stages in the learning process

How do I reflect? How have my reflections helped me learn? What other reflection tools and resources can help me?
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Thinking

 * Learning expectations:**
 * generating ideas—including the use of brainstorming
 * planning—including storyboarding and outlining a plan
 * inquiring—including questioning and challenging information and arguments, developing questions, using the inquiry cycle
 * applying knowledge and concepts—including logical progression of arguments
 * identifying problems—including deductive reasoning, evaluating solutions to problems
 * creating novel solutions—including the combination of critical and creative strategies, considering a problem from multiple perspectives

How do I think? What tools can help me think in different ways? What planning tools do I have?
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Transfer

 * Learning expectations:**
 * making connections—including using knowledge, understanding and skills across subjects to create products or solutions, applying skills and knowledge in unfamiliar situations
 * inquiring in different contexts—including changing the context of an inquiry to gain various perspectives**.**

What are the "big ideas" of each of the different subjects? Do the big ideas of the subjects overlap? How can I use my knowledge, understanding and skills across subjects?
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