Minnesota Adult Basic Education
Assessment Training
Learning and Thinking Skills
Click on the blue link to open a competency-based lesson plan.
7.1 Identify or practice effective organizational and time management skills in accomplishing goals
7.1.1 Identify and prioritize personal, educational and workplace goals
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
Click on Lesson 7 - "Renting vs Owning"
7.1.2 Demonstrate an organized approach to achieving goals, including identifying and prioritizing tasks, and setting and following an effective schedule
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
Click on Lesson 7 - "Renting vs Owning"
7.2 Demonstrate ability to use thinking skills
7.2.1 Identify and paraphrase pertinent phrases
Click on "Grill Safety"
Click on "Fire Plan"
7.2.2 Analyze a situation, statement, or process, identifying component elements and causal and part/whole relationships
Miracosta College ESL Lesson Plans
EL Civics Reporting Crimes and Accidents Unit (Intermediate Level)
Miracosta College ESL Lesson Plans
EL Civics Reporting Crimes Unit (Advanced Level)
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
Click on Lesson 9 - "How to Buy a Home, Part 2"
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
Click on Lesson 10 - "Participating in Your New Community"
7.2.3 Make comparisons, differentiating among, sorting, and classifying items, information, or ideas
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
Click on Lesson 5 - "Determining Where to Live"
7.2.4 Identify or make inferences through inductive and deductive reasoning to hypothesize, predict, conclude, and synthesize; distinguish fact from opinion, and determine what is mandatory and what is discretionary
CLESE - Bright Ideas Curriculum
Click on "News"
7.2.6 Generate ideas using divergent (brainstorming) and convergent (focus) approaches, and also through creative imagination
Talking Points Worksheets - "Charity" (Student Handout)
Teaching Suggestions - "Charity"
TP Homework - "Charity"
Talking Points Worksheets - "The Secrets of Success" (Student Handout)
Teaching Suggestions - "The Secrets of Success"
TP Homework - "The Secrets of Success"
7.2.7 Identify factors in making decisions, including considering goals, constraints and consequences, and weighing alternatives
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
Click on Lesson 8 - "How to Buy a House, Part 1"
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
Click on Lesson 7 - "Renting vs Owning"
7.4 Demonstrate study skills
7.4.3 Identify, utilize, or create devices or processes for remembering information
Click on Lesson 1 - "Parents As First Teachers - The Gingerbread Man"
7.4.5 Use reference materials, such as dictionaries and encyclopedias
The House I Live In - Crave Community College, North Carolina
Click on Lesson 1 - "My American Dream"
7.4.6 Use indexes and tables of contents
"Table of Contents"
7.4.9 Identify personal learning styles
Talking Points Worksheets - "How Do You Learn Best?" (Student Handout)
Teaching Suggestions - "How Do You Learn Best?"
TP Homework - "How Do YOu Learn Best?"
7.5 Understand aspects of and approaches to effective personal management
7.5.1 Identify personal values, qualities, interests, abilities, and aptitudes
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
Click on Lesson 1 - "My American Dream"
7.5.4 Identify sources of stress, and resources for stress reduction
Talking Points Worksheets - "Stress" (Student Handout)
Teaching Suggestions - "Stress"
TP Homework - "Stress"