The Core Competencies are sets of intellectual, personal, and social and emotional proficiencies that all students need in order to engage in deep, lifelong learning.  The Core Competencies are interconnected and are foundational to all learning and students encounter opportunities to develop their competence in formal and informal settings. They move from demonstrating competence in relatively simple and highly supported situations, to demonstrating independence in more complex and varied contexts. Competency development does not end with school graduation but continues in personal, social, educational, and workplace contexts.  You will find links to competency profiles, a video series and resources for ongoing student metacognition and templates for reflection. 
The Communication competency encompasses the knowledge, skills, processes and dispositions we associate with interactions with others.  There are two sub competencies - Communicating and Collaborating.  
The Thinking competency encompasses the knowledge, skills, and processes we associate with intellectual development.  The three sub competencies include Critical, Creative and Reflective thinking.
The Personal and Social competency is the set of abilities that relate to students' identity in the world, both as individuals and as members of their community and society.  There are three subcategories - Personal Awareness and Responsibility, Positive Personal Cultural Identity and Social Awareness and Responsibility.
Click on the links to discover more about each of the sub categories
Students develop core competencies when they are engaged in “doing” – the curricular competencies –  the core competencies are often interconnected and are foundational to all learning no matter the subject area. This page unpacks the rationale and how the core competencies are broken down. 
These videos provide an introduction, information about the Facets, Profiles and Connections of the core competencies and some examples and Resources.
We have collated some reflection and goal setting tools for all the core competencies at the primary, intermediate and secondary levels.