What are Power Skills?
As part of Aspirations Academies Trust, we have used extensive research undertaken by the Hewlett Packard Foundation – and developed further by the Deeper Learning Foundation – as our starting point for determining what robust learning progressions for skill development looks like.
The five Power Skill areas are:
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Critical Thinking
- Complex Problem Solving
- Character (Learning how to Learn)
Every skill is broken down into several strands; each of which has a long-term transfer goal. Staff at Park Academy collaboratively developed and defined learning progressions, which provide observable performance indicators as to what progressive development toward each long-term transfer goal looks like.
