Développer autrement les compétences sociales et cognitives

• To develop these cross-disciplinary competences, the tools must form part of an overall approach. Mobilising skills has to be done in multiple contexts. To create these contexts, the approach should really be part of an overall project, led by a cross-disciplinary team.• This team will:

Ü	Identify the pupils’ needs according to the contexts
Ü	Revive and coach the necessary skills
Ü	Mobilise the skills expected in different contexts
Ü	Anchor these skills and see how they can be transferred

The teacher’s attitude has to be that of a mediator, a learning facilitator
In this type of approach, the teacher does not transfer knowledge as such. He becomes a learning facilitator. To do that, he has to:

Ü	Observe the group in situation to find out what skills are lacking
Ü	Take into account the needs expressed by the learner or the group (active listening)
Ü	Reformulate the needs according to the context
Ü	Organise the work plan: instructions/ duration/ alternation of individual work, work in small groups, collective work/ give new impulse if pupils are flagging
Ü	Give positive feed-back, be encouraging
Ü	Give them the right to make mistakes
Ü	Not make character judgements
Ü	Give added value to the action of looking for an answer
Ü	Encourage a series of reformulations instead of giving the “right” answer
Ü	Encourage questions
Ü	Stimulate questions (repeat the instructions, reformulate a possible solution suggested by a pupil, etc.)
Ü	Makes sure the learning is done through cooperation: he encourages interaction, facilitates communication and plays the role of mediator
Ü	Encourages reflexive analysis throughout the process
Ü	Helps to think of transfer possibilities for the newly learnt knowledge