Life skills..precious treasure

By Moulay Ali Elmghari

Formal education seeks the ability of the learner to possess diverse skills through a Darcy curriculum based on the community project of a country.

These skills can be divided into three sections:

- Basic skills such as calculation, writing and reading ..

- Removable skills such as the ability to solve problems and express opinion and demonstrate the ability to lead ..

- Technical and vocational skills, skills that are specific to occupations and functions that require specific technical knowledge.

These skills are focused on the evaluation and ensure that the learner has through several calendar activities in various educational wires from the primary and secondary (middle) and secondary to university education and continuous training and training, which is at the workplace or company.

Because these skills are subject to assessment and evaluation, they are highly educated and strive to master them in order to move from level to level or to obtain a particular job or promotion.

In contrast, the necessary skills needed by the learner are neglected on a daily basis and employ them throughout their lives. They are subject to development and development when they are repeated. They also enhance the learner's self-esteem and strengthen his awareness of his talents and abilities.

These skills are defined by some specialists as "life skills" or "non-academic skills"

It includes everything that the learner learns outside the walls of the school and the university of skills related to his daily life, buying his own necessities, organizing his objects and his room, cleaning his clothes and accessories, repairing his bicycle and riding, choosing his friends, communicating with them, using computers and technology, Exercise and excel in ...

 Every skill helps the learner to accomplish a certain work by mastering or overcoming and solving a particular problem, or a recreational activity useful, enter the concept of life skills.

These skills are varied between linguistic, logical, physical, physical, artistic, emotional, technological, social, methodological, technical, and cultural skills, including those built within the school, many of which are acquired by the learner through their daily activities and their periodic needs and parallel activities by the learner , Including self-education, peer education, cooperative education, training courses, private trips and summer camp activities.

To raise these skills from the educational partners (parents, teachers, friends, trainers, educators ...) to the learner and encourage them to develop and reward them, earns the learner confidence in himself and his potential, and encourages him to continue his education - learning despite the obstacles and difficulties facing him.

The lack of attention to these skills in the assessment of the learner within the school, home, community and club caused many opportunities to be lost in order to give the learner significant moral support, self esteem, Diversity and development of its various capacities.

Life skills are valuable skills and real success in life, an important theater of experience and experience, which are one of the most important sources of knowledge.

The learner's awareness of the importance of these skills and their usefulness in their daily lives and their value in achieving their goals and aspirations leads them to discover and develop their talents and work to excel in them through the two tracks:

Many of these life skills contribute significantly to the entry of the owner of the labor market with great confidence, and provide him with the necessary skills to meet the challenges and set his way in a world where the challenges and difficulties of many.

Life skills enable the learner to make informed decisions, build correct attitudes, communicate effectively with himself and his surroundings and interact properly with his feelings, enabling him to activate his self-intelligence and discover his multiple intelligence.