Adult Education Administrator's Manual

Appendices

Five Competencies

1. Resources: Identifies, organizes, and allocates resources

A. Time-Selects goal-relevant activities, ranks them, allocates time, and prepares and follows schedules.

B. Money-Uses or prepares budgets, makes forecasts, keeps records, and makes adjustments to meet objectives.

C. Material and Facilities-Acquires, stores, allocates, and uses materials or space efficiently.

D. Human Resources-Assesses skills and distributes work accordingly, evaluates performance and provides feedback.

2. Information: Acquires and uses information

A. Acquires and Evaluates Information.

B. Organizes and Maintains Information.

C Interprets and Communicates Information.

D. Uses Computers to Process Information.

3. Technology: Works with a variety of technologies

A Selects Technology-chooses procedures, tools or equipment including computers and related technologies.

B. Applies Technology to Task-understands overall intent and proper procedures for setup and operation of equipment.

C Maintains and Troubleshoots Equipment-prevents, identifies, or solves problems with equipment, including computers and other technologies.

4. Systems: Understands complex inter-relationships

A Understands Systems-knows how social, organizational, and technological systems work and operates effectively with them.

B. Monitors and Corrects Performance-distinguishes trends, predicts impacts on system operations, diagnoses deviations in systems' performance and corrects malfunctions.

C Improves-Designs Systems-suggests modifications to existing systems and develops new or alternative systems to improve performance.

5. Interpersonal: Works with others

A Participates as Member of a Team-contributes to group efforts.

B. Teaches Others New Skills.

C. Serves Clients/Customers-works to satisfy customers' expectations.

D. Exercises Leadership-communicates ideas to justify position, persuades and convinces other, responsibly challenges existing procedures and policies.

E. Negotiates-works toward agreements involving exchange of resources, resolves divergent interests.

F. Works with Diversity-works well with men and women from diverse backgrounds.

Three Foundations

6. Basic Skills: Reads, writes, performs arithmetic and mathematical operations, listens and speaks

A. Reading-locates, understands, and interprets written information in prose and in documents such as manuals, graphs, and schedules

B. Writing-communicates thoughts, ideas, information, and messages in writing; creates documents such as letters, directions, manuals, reports, graphs, and flow charts

C. Arithmetic/Mathematics-performs basic computations and approaches practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical techniques

D. Listening-receives, attends to, interprets, and responds to verbal messages and other cues

E. Speaking-organizes ideas and communicates orally

7. Thinking Skills: Thinks creatively, makes decisions, solves problems, visualizes, knows how to learn, and reasons

A Creative thinking-generates new ideas

B. Decision Making-specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses best alternative

C. Problem Solving-recognizes problems and devises and implements plan of action

D. Seeing things in the Mind's Eye-organizes, and processes symbols, pictures, graphs, objects, and other information

E. Knowing How to Learn-uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills

F. Reasoning-discovers a rule or principle underlying the relationship between two or more objects and applies it when solving a problem

8. Personal Qualities: Displays responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self management, and integrity and honesty

A. Responsibility-exerts a high level of effort and perseveres towards goal attainment

B. Self-Esteem-believes in own self-worth and maintains a positive view of self

C. Sociability-demonstrates understanding, friendliness, adaptability, empathy, and politeness in group settings

D. Self-Management-assesses self accurately, sets personal goals, monitors progress, and exhibits self-control

E. Integrity/Honesty-chooses ethical courses of action

 

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