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LifeComp into Action: a guide for teaching life skills in the classroom and beyond
The LifeComp framework describes nine life skills that everyone can hone through formal and non-formal education to build a meaningful life and cope with complexity. A new guide helps teachers to nurture these life skills in their classroom.
LifeComp in Brief
outlines nine competences in three areas:
- Personal (Self-regulation, Flexibility and Wellbeing)
- Social (Empathy, Communication and Collaboration)
- Ƶing to Ƶ (Growth Mindset, Critical Thinking and Managing Ƶing)
Intentionally promoting these competences through education boosts learners’ academic success, life satisfaction and employability.
To get an idea of the importance of teaching these competences, see this video:
LifeComp into Action
The European Commission’s Ƶt Research Centre has just published.
In this report, you can find a set of recommendations for teaching LifeComp competences with a learner-centred approach, including:
- seven inspirational principles to accompany educators in creating learning experiences focused on fostering the LifeComp competences;
- guidelines on the development of each competence, ways to implement learning activities that promote life skills alongside the regular syllabus, and main drivers and barriers for each competence;
- 16 learner-centred and research-based teaching strategies to create learning environments that empower learners to practise and hone LifeComp competences.
School Education Gateway has also prepared three online courses to support you in promoting LifeComp in the classroom, so stay tuned!
- (ended May 2022, but available for perusal)
- Teaching Life Competences 2 – Promoting students’ resilience (starting September 2022)
- Teaching Life Competences 3 – Reducing stress in schools (starting December 2022)