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SCANS
(Secretary's Commisssion on Achieving Necessary Skills)

The Five Competencies

The Three Skill Areas
RESOURCES - identifies, organizes, plans & allocates for:
  1. Time
  2. Money
  3. Materials & facilities
  4. Human resources
 BASIC SKILLS:
  1. Reading
  2. Writing
  3. Arithmetic/Mathematics
  4. Listening
  5. Speaking
INTERPERSONAL - works with others
  1. Participates as a team member
  2. Teaches others new skills
  3. Serves clients or customers
  4. Negotiates with others
  5. Works w/ diverse groups of people
 THINKING SKILLS:
  1. Creative thinking
  2. Decision making
  3. Problem solving
  4. Seeing things in the mind's eye
  5. Reasoning
INFORMATION - acquires & uses
  1. Acquires & evaluates
  2. Organizes & maintains
  3. Interprets & communicates
  4. Uses computers to process
 PERSONAL QUALITIES
  1. Responsibility
  2. Self-esteem
  3. Sociability
  4. Self-management
  5. Integrity/honesty
SYSTEMS - understands complex inter-relationships
  1. Understands social, organizational, & technological systems
  2. Monitors & corrects performance
  3. Improves or designs systems
 
TECHNOLOGY - works iwth a variety
  1. Selects the appropriate technology
  2. Applies technology to a task
  3. Maintains/troubleshoots equipment