cross+competency+attitudes

=**Cross Competency Attitudes**=

When we are looking at the cross competency approach it is important to realise that each competency is a complex mixture of attitudes and skills. If we isolate skills away from the attitudes it is like separating the car from the petrol. It is the attitudes we hold that empower or nullify the skills we have. W e can be very skilled but poor attitudes will usually mean that we do not apply the skills to our potential, if at all.



Through the work done at a number of schools the following four attitudes have been identified as core to empowering us as learners, for life, and for interacting with others.


 * Curiosity:** The drive to discover, find out and understand, it is the force behind learning.


 * Open mindedness:** The willingness to adapt ideas, views, opinions and understanding in the light of new evidence, logic or experiences.


 * Persistance:** The willingnes to continue with something despite obstacles and difficulties.


 * Empathy:** The willingness to identify, consider and respond to differing viewpoints, beliefs, culture and experiences.

Unlike skills, for which we can identify depths of performance, an attitude is being demonstrated or not demonstrated. So for an attitude we can't identify depths but we can look at the frequency of the attitude being demonstrated.