- Type Validation
Communication Apprentice - CTHS
Issued by
Cherry Creek School District
Earner has demonstrated competency in communication by assessing a challenging communication situation, demonstrating active listening skills, cultural awareness, and the strategic use of oral, written, and/or technical communication skills and tools to affect a meaningful outcome. This micro-credential is derived from the Colorado Department of Education’s 21st Century Essential Skills and recommended areas for affective programming for Gifted and Talented students.
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Skills
Earning Criteria
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Earner has demonstrated competency in Communication in two of the following areas: Communication Assessment, Listening Skills, Cultural Awareness, and Communication Effectiveness.
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COMMUNICATION ASSESSMENT: Understands the context, audience, and purpose that is responsive to the task at hand.
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LISTENING SKILLS: To hear in an attentive manner, to understand and interpret communication accurately.
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CULTURAL AWARENESS: An in-depth understanding of societal and communal set-ups, environments, problems, struggles, norms, and cultures; to know and feel the people around you and interact with them productively.
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COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVENESS: Using language or symbols artfully and strategically to convince, influence or please.
Standards
Colorado Department of Education identifies the following skills and knowledge areas key to college and/or career readiness in the 21st Century: Critical Thinking and Reasoning, Information Literacy, Collaboration, Self-Direction, and Invention.
Colorado Department of Education's Office of Gifted and Talented identifies the following skills and knowledge as key to college and/or career readiness in the 21st Century: Personal Competence, Social Competence, Leadership Competence, Cultural Competence, and Communication Competence.