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What are Core Competencies?

 

The Core Competencies are sets of intellectual, personal, and social and emotional proficiencies that all students need in order to engage in deep, lifelong learning. Along with literacy and numeracy foundations, they are central to BC’s K-12 curriculum and assessment system and directly support students in their growth as educated citizens. There are 3 Core Competencies: Communication, Thinking and Personal and Social.

As students learn, they should regularly assess their growth through self-reflection and self-assessment. Teachers support students this growth in self-assessment by intentionally noticing, naming, and connecting the Core Competencies with their learning in school and beyond.

Watch the videos created below by the BC MOE to introduce Core Competencies and learn how to assess them during the year.

Core Competency Video Series

BCOE Training Resources

BCOE Training on Core Competencies

A presentation about the the basics of Core Competencies and practical ideas of how to incorporate Self-Assessment into the teaching practice by Linda King

Teacher Lesson Planning with Core Competencies

How do you incorporate Core Competencies into your lesson planning? It's not as hard as you think! Check out these simple examples by Linda King.

Language Arts K-11 Curricular Competency Goals and Objectives

Review this template for English Language Arts K-11 which presents a sample tool to identify Core Competency Goals and Objectives to Support IEP Writing (2023)

Creating Self-Assessments for Core Competencies

A presentation about how to create and use various self-assessments to assess for Core Competencis by #BCEdChat

Assessing Core Competencies

As students learn, they should regularly assess their growth through self-reflection and self-assessment. Teachers support students this growth in self-assessment by intentionally noticing, naming, and connecting the Core Competencies with their learning in school and beyond.

The following are self reflection and self-assessment tools teachers can use to assess core competencies.

Additional Resources