Learning Skills · Grade 5

Skills

• Does the hard task first rather than the easy one.
• Notices when they have stopped concentrating, and takes a break on purpose instead of drifting.
• Plans a week with several commitments in it, and keeps to it.
• Starts a long task early enough to survive something going wrong.
• Prioritises when there is more to do than time to do it.
• Makes their own summary, mind map or flashcards for a topic.
• Revisits old material deliberately so it is not lost.
• Identifies what they do *not* yet know, rather than assuming they know it.
• Asks how somebody knows what they are claiming.
• Knows the difference between not understanding *yet* and not being able to.
• Prefers being right to having been right.