The document outlines personal, learning, and thinking skills essential for academic success and future employment, including self-management, teamwork, reflection, creativity, participation, and independent inquiry. It encourages students to assess their strengths and areas for development using an assessment tool available online. The document emphasizes the importance of demonstrating these skills in job applications and will incorporate skill development into future projects and activities.

1. Induction
Personal Thinking
and Learning Skills

2. Induction
Personal, learning and thinking skills
Here are a list of skills that will be useful over your
course of study and useful in the future
– Self-managers
– Team workers
– Reflective learners
– Creative thinkers
– Effective participators
– Independent enquirers
In groups what do you think
terms these mean?

3. Induction
Personal, learning and thinking skills
From the list which do you feel you have strengths in?
– Self-managers
– Team workers
– Reflective learners
– Creative thinkers
– Effective participators
– Independent enquirers
Which do you think you need to develop?

4. Induction
PTLS Personal Assessment
• On the Moodle Internet down load the PTLS
assessment to your USB stick
• Take the assessment and save the results.
• Be sure to note your scores you need to add them to
your Induction Moodle Site.
• The scores will be out of 30
• This will give you an indication of your current
strengths and perhaps what you need to develop.

5. Induction
Example
This is what the
results will look
like from your
Personal,
Thinking and
Learning Skills
Assessment.
Write down your
scores and
strongest area
and area to
develop.

6. Induction
Examples
• The following examples cover all the Personal
Thinking Skills Categories and offer examples
how you can use these skills on your course
• Look at the statements and choose a couple
you may wish to improve on. For example
“I can manage discussions” or “I can explore
and solve problems” think how on your course
you could do this

7. Induction
Self-managers
I can work towards
goals independently
I can organise my
time
I can deal with
pressure and adapt to
change
I can prioritise actions

8. Induction
Team workers
I can work with others
towards a shared goal
I can manage
discussion
I can provide
constructive feedback
to others
I can adapt to
different roles,
including leadership

9. Induction
Reflective
learners
I can assess myself
and others
I can set goals to
work towards
I can review my
progress
I can deal with
constructive criticism

10. Induction
Creative
thinkers
I can come up with
ideas
I can explore new
ideas and possibilities
I can try out new
ideas and adapt them
as things change
I can challenge and
question my own and
other’s ideas

11. Induction
Effective
participators
I can discuss issues
I can present a case
for action
I can suggest
practical steps to
move things forward
I can negotiate and try
to influence others

12. Induction
Independent
enquirers
I can plan and carry
out research
I can analyse and
evaluate information
I can explore and
solve problems
I can make reasoned
decisions and present
arguments

13. Induction
Personal, learning and thinking skills
• Personal, learning and thinking
skills are the skills and qualities
that will help you on your course
and in employment.
• They are things that employers
will look for in their employees.
• When applying for jobs, it is
good to demonstrate that you
have these skills and this can
be shown through your
experience.

14. Induction
Progression
• Over the next year we will refer to these skills
as part of projects and enrichment activities
and encourage you to develop them