Meta-skills Progression Framework
(Source – meta-skills-progression-framework.pdf)
Meta-skills are innate, timeless, higher-order skills that create adaptive learners and promote success in whatever context the future brings. From birth, children use their meta-skills as they test and explore the world around them, and it is these meta-skills that act as a key to unlock the development of other transferable and technical skills. Therefore, it is important that as children and young people progress through their education, practitioners make meta-skills explicitly visible and create opportunities for learners to recognise, understand and explore their meta-skills development.
The Skills Development Scotland meta-skills progression framework has been developed in collaboration with partners and practitioners from across Scotland and aims to help with identifying and understanding what meta-skills look like in the classroom. The framework builds on the ‘Skills 4.0 – A Skills Model to Drive Scotland’s Future’ paper and illustrates examples of meta-skills across Curriculum for Excellence levels, from early years through to senior phase.
Towards the end of each academic session young people who have studied a Foundation Apprenticeships are asked to provide feedback on the Meta-skills they have developed. In the Academic Session 2023 / 2024, of 353 respondees across all SCQF levels reported that they had developed the following Meta-skills:
