Transversal Competencies, its 6 Categories and the set of skills under it.

1. TRANSVERSAL
COMPETENCIES
Discussant:
Michelle B. San Juan

2. TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES
• refers to knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes that are
integral to life in the 21st century
• Students who will become future workers need to be
ready and must have a sophisticated and complex
problem – solving skills, communication and
coordination skills.
• help the success of an individual and also well-
functioning society.

3. Six (6)
Categories of
Transversal
Competencies:

4. • this is how we think extensively and profoundly
using abilities, attitudes and dispositions such as
reason, reasoning, resourcefulness, creativity and
ingenuity in all learning areas at school and in
their lives outside school.
Critical and Innovative Thinking

5. Creativity
Entrepreneurship
Resourcefulness
Application skills
Reflective thinking
Reasoned decision making
Set of Skills:

6. Global citizenship
• understanding the wider world, and
our place in it. It is about our rights,
responsibilities and taking active roles
in our community.

7. Awareness and openness
Tolerance and respect for diversity
Responsibility and ability to resolve conflict
Ethical and intercultural understanding
Democratic participation
Respect for the environment
National identity and the sense of belonging
Set of Skills:

8. Physical health and religious beliefs
• giving importance for our well – being
while continuously living and working,
and also respecting different religious
beliefs.
Set of Skills:
Respect for religious values
Appreciation of health lifestyle

9. Intrapersonal skills
these are the skills within ourself or
the internal skills and habits that help us
control thoughts, cope with problems, and
learn new knowledge. Such abilities, which
contribute to emotional intelligence, include
aspects such as self-confidence and
resilience.

10. Self – discipline
Ability to learn independently
Flexibility and adaptability
Self – awareness
Perseverance and self – motivation
Compassion
Integrity and self – respect
Set of Skills:

11. Interpersonal skills
These are the abilities we use every
day as we connect and communicate, both
individually and in groups, with other
people. It includes communication skills
such as listening and speaking effectively.
They also provide the capacity to control the
feelings and regulate them.

12. Communication skills
Organizational skills
Teamwork and collaboration
Sociability and collegiality
Empathy and compassion
Set of Skills:

13. Media and Information Literacy
Ethical use of ICT
Ability to critically evaluate information and
media content
Ability to obtain and analyze information
through ICT

14. THANK YOU!