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Bloom’s Taxonomy offers the use of various levels of competences. At the college or university, educators stop depending on the lower level skills, such as memorization and recall, and focus on the development of higher-order thinking skills such as researching, analyzing, assessing, and creating. While the majority of skills are mastered in the educational process, there are some fundamentals that are required for jumping into the academic routine. Here are the ten skills mentioned the most often.

Adaptive Thinking

The fast-pacing development of technologies affects different spheres of human life. By the time students master the newest software or program, an updated version is coming about. Students will need to constantly adapt to changing conditions as well as learn new things within the shortest timeframes. Thus, students should learn how to learn fast and efficiently.

Communication Skills

The ability to find a common language with other people is a vital thing required both for the educational and working processes. Students will have to communicate with other members of their team, as well as people outside of the organization for this or that purpose. In the digital age, however, students can try out new communication approaches from video-conferencing to social media.

Collaboration Skills

The educational process encourages a culture of competition and independence rather than one of teamwork and cooperation. Thus, students must be able to get along with others for reaching academic goals.

Critical Thinking Skills

Oftentimes, critical thinking is underestimated by educators and students themselves. Once it comes to academic assignments or even daily situations, this skill becomes a crucial element of problem-solving. In a fast-changing world, students should solve problems and generate new ideas. This is what will be requested from them by future employers.

Organizational Management

Students should have a set of internal characteristics that make it possible for them to independently plan, organize, and process their routine. All this needs to be done on their own without someone else’s reminding.

Inquiry Skills

Most academic assignments are based on the ability to ask the right questions and give the proper answers. Although this skill can’t be assessed directly, it becomes automatically visible in any research, analysis, and even daily routine.

Technology Skills

Whichever field you will choose for studying, you will need to be good at using technology. In the digital age, technology is surrounding us. Educational institutions, however, are a bit slow to adapt to this change. Thus, it all depend on the student’s own initiative.

Personal Skills

Similar to organizational skills, students should also have some personal characteristics which lead them through the educational process. These can be patience, tolerance, sense of humor, and any other thing that makes your personality to stand out from the crowd.

Empathic Skills

While this skill has always been vital, it seems to be slowly disappearing. Without being too emotional and sensitive, students should still be able to put themselves in someone else’s shoes to understand their feelings and give support.