The document provides an overview of life skills, emphasizing the importance of thinking, social, and emotional skills. It highlights how these skills contribute to adaptability, efficiency, acceptance, and overall well-being. The text also outlines specific abilities within each skill area and their relevance in everyday situations.

1. An Overview
Life Skills

2. LIFE SKILLS
THINKING
SKILLS
SOCIAL
SKILLS
EMOTIONAL
SKILLS

3. THINKING
SKILLS
• SELF AWARENESS
• PROBLEM SOLVING
• DEALING WITH STRESS
SOCIAL
SKILLS
• INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
• DECISION MAKING
• CREATIVE THINKING
EMOTIONAL
SKILLS
• MANAGING FEELINGS/ EMOTIONS
• COMMUNICATION SKILLS
• EMPATHY

4. WHY SHOULD WE LEARN LIFE
SKILLS?
Life skills enable us :
To adapt to situations and people.
To produce quality results by using less
time, energy and resources.
 Life skills bring us greater acceptance by
others.
 Life skills bring us a healthy positive life.

6. SKILL AREAS AND
INDICATORS OF
ASSESSMENT

7. THINKING SKILLS
Students demonstrate the ability
to:
 Be original, flexible and imaginative.
 Raise questions, identify and analyze
problems.
 Implement a well thought out decision and
take responsibility.
 Generate new ideas with fluency.
 Elaborate/ build on new ideas.

8. SOCIAL SKILLS
Students demonstrate the ability
to:
 Identify, verbalize and respond to others’
emotions in an empathetic manner.
 Get along well with others.
 Take criticism positively.
 Listen actively.
 Communicate using appropriate words,
intonation and body language.

9. EMOTIONAL SKILLS
Students demonstrate the ability to:
 Identify one’s own strengths and weaknesses.
 Be comfortable with one’s own self and
overcome weaknesses for positive self
concept.
 Identify causes and effects of stress on
oneself.
 Develop and use multi-faceted strategies to
deal with stress.
 Express and respond to emotions with an
awareness of the consequences.

10. Life Skills
 We use life skills all the time in different
situations.
 Several life skills are used in conjunction
in dealing with certain situations.
 Rehearsing the use of life skills in simple
situations makes it easy to use them in
complex ones.