Benchmarking principles and practices

In the UK, there's a  growing  recognition  in curriculum development of  the importance of  children’s personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS).  According to a Futurelab handbook: Curriculum and teaching innovation Transforming classroom practice and personalisation",  These are seen as sets of core capacities and capabilities that children will need to develop to equip them for the world of work and citizenship beyond school. While subject expertise therefore remains of central importance to the curriculum, there has been more acknowledgement that this content knowledge must be supplemented with other competences.The PLTS framework is organised around six key areas:

+ independent enquiry
+ creative thinking
+ reflective learning
+ team work
+ self-management
+ effective participation.

Read the Futurelab paper  here.

In the Philippines,  Headway School for Giftedness  focuses  on what we call FROLIC. Let's see if it  maps nicely to PLTS.

+ resourcefulness
+ originality
+ loyalty
+ compassion
+ initiative
+ fortitude

For what that was worth.