SIS BTT 20 Wiki

General Definition of competencies
Competencies are general skills, knowledge and behaviours that each individual possess. Competencies can be related to sports, education, personal skills and etc which allow people to do well in work, education daily activities and etc. They can be used to measure and communicate your abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. Competencies derive from the word competent. It means if you are competent, you are able to do something well. Depending on the individual, some of the competencies are stronger and more developed than others. With practice and learning, you can build on your strengths and work on your weaknesses. You may even discover competencies you did not know you had.

Examples of Competencies

 * Able to write well
 * Able to confidently speak in front of an audience
 * Solving maths problems
 * Playing hockey
 * Sorrting out your room/car/office

1. Understanding Information
This category describes your knowledge and understanding of specific information.
 * Learning new facts
 * Understanding new words or different languages
 * Understanding and expressing the concepts in a concise and easy to understand manner
 * Relating differences and relationships among topics and concepts.

2. Analyzing
This category involves your critical and creative thinking skills.
 * Ability to ask questions and to look at different options
 * Judge or evaluate these options
 * Making decisions
 * Problem solving
 * Interpreting and assessing information
 * Drawing conclusions

3. Applying
This category explains your ability to make connections among experiences, concepts, and ideas; to transfer skills you already have to new or different situations; and to use the appropriate equipment and technology.

4. Communicating
This category explains your ability to express the information you have gathered to other individuals through writing, videos or speeches.
 * Ability to write, speak, or present ideas and information.
 * Use of language and symbols
 * Ability to communicate in different formats (such as letters, e-mails, and reports)

Discovering Competencies
Seeing where our strengths lie, how we improved in a specific field or art, and where you still need to do some work enables us to discover our potentials and competencies in our lives. Creating a list is a good way of discovering our competencies. We can use personal competencies lists to ensure we are achieving the knowledge and skills required to be successful.

School
School is the place where most students’ competencies and talents are discovered. Schools provides student with activities and subjects which evaluates, develops and discovers the competencies in a student in the process, whether it be sports or academics. In terms of classes in schools, a student can discover his own competencies by using various methods. One of which is by using a list to help them to select samples of work form their portfolios. By going through our work, students can identify their competencies and weakness in different topics and chapters of a subject. On the other hand, for activities such as games and sports, students can also discover their strengths and weaknesses, and develop from there. Though discovering their weakness in a subject, students can build and develop their competencies as they go on with school life, improving themselves in the process. In conclusion, schools is a place where competencies are discovered and developed of the greater good, improving a student both physically and mentally based on their competencies.

Jobs
In jobs nowadays, head hunters look for people, not so much with high degrees, but with suitable competencies. If you have a guy, from Harvard with a PhD in Economics, but can’t communicate with his workers, or can’t apply his knowledge to his work, and you have a guy from a local University, with only a Bachelor Degree in Economics, but he can communicate, apply and analyze like no other, who would you choose? The second guy of course, since you’d actually be able to use him. If you have tones of information stored up in your head, but you can’t use it…I’m sorry, but what’s the point? Application and Communication are both very important factors in daily life as well as work life, to apply your knowledge and to be able to make presentations or speak in front of groups of people, are things that you don’t really think about but are very important. Analysis too, is very important, analysis can come in many different forms, the most important actually, is to be able to find your own mistakes, if one can do that, you have a perfectionist, this is that easy to find though since a lot of people are very lazy.

Competencies of Life
The ability to relate well to others, to cooperate, and to manage and resolve conflicts, grouped under the first category, "interacting in socially heterogeneous groups", is particularly relevant in pluralistic, multicultural societies. Individuals need to learn how to join and function in groups and social orders whose members are from diverse backgrounds and how to deal with differences and contradictions.

"Acting autonomously", the second category, includes key competencies that empower individuals to manage their lives in meaningful and responsible ways by exercising control over their living and working conditions. The ability to act within the big picture or the larger context, to form and conduct life plans and personal projects, and to defend and assert one's rights, interests, limits, and needs is crucial for participating effectively in different spheres of life - in the workplace, in personal and family life, and in civil and political life.

The ability to "use tools interactively", the third category of key competencies, responds to the social and professional demands of the global economy and the modern "information society", which require mastery of socio-cultural tools such as language, information, and knowledge, as well as physical tools such as computers. Using tools interactively does not simply mean having the technical skills to use a tool (e.g., read a text, use computer mouse, etc), but assumes a familiarity with the tool itself and an understanding of how the tool changes the way one can interact with the world and how the tool is used to accomplish broader goals. The three key competencies listed in this category are the ability to use - interactively - language, symbols, and text, as defined by tests in reading and mathematical literacy; knowledge and information, as defined in tests for scientific literacy; and technology.

Each of these key competencies implies the mobilisation of knowledge, cognitive and practical skills, and social and behavioural components including attitudes, emotions, and values and motivations.

Competencies in Sports
Understanding Information:

In sports, teams have coaches. They recognize the importance of the role and working with individuals in order to improve performance. It is presumed that the professional coach knows more about the subject matter under discussion, than the player. However, the possession of knowledge is the minimum expectation for the coach. Those who thrive in the position have the capability to gain trust, communicate the message, encourage application, provide feedback, and help to improve the player’s performance.

Communicating:

Good communication skills in sports are among the most important ingredients contributing to the performance and growth of exercise and sport participants. The purposes of communication are persuasion, evaluation, information, motivation and problem solving.