### skill | literacy:

Quantitative literacy
* concerns a student's familiarity with numbers and numerical manipulations.
* deals with the most basic numerical needs of everyday life.
* involves understanding the role of numbers in the world
  - using numbers and arithmetic operations to complete a task
* is part of all subjects and the responsibility of all teachers
  - the ability to perform numerical operations in everyday life
* means knowing how to reason and how to think.

Scientific literacy
* is essential to being a successful participant in the modern world
  - important to gain an advantage in the technologically advance society
  - more important today than ever before
* is of increasing importance in the workplace
  - much importance in the workplace
  - the major concern in the developed world
* means being able to use scientific knowledge and ways of thinking in daily life.
* provides far more than knowledge and a way to view the world.

Statistical literacy
* is critical thinking about statistics as evidence for inferences.
* part of numeracy.

Technological literacy
* helps our children succeed in school and succeed in the world of work.
* is connected to both information and workplace literacy.
* is much more than just knowledge about computers and their application
  - knowledge of computers and their application
  - the ability of a person to use, manage, assess, and understand technology
* refers to a sophistication about and skill with certain materials and tools.

Visual literacy
* critical life skill.
* declines as the lexicon of images narrows.
* forms a basis for shared vision and communication.
* is an important component of the practice of engineering
  - something learned, just as reading and writing are learned
  - the viewpoint which advocates the use of realistic visuals in instruction
* key component to living a free existence.
* uses visual data.

Managerial skill
* are essential to the operation of networks, information systems and databases.
* can have payoffs in the performing arts.

### skill:

Motor skill
* acquisition a function of maturation and experience.
* are any physical activities that require complex movement of the body
  - motions carried out when the brain, nervous system, and muscles work together
* are often an area of significant strength for individuals with Autistic Disorder
  - harder to increase once competency is attained
  - things like walking and riding a bike
* begin with the learning of the sequence of muscular movements that underlies the skill.
* come in two kinds.
* improves as strength and voluntary muscle control increase.
* is when babies start to learn how to control movement of part of the body
  - students work on their hand-eye coordination

Organizational skill
* are a critical skill for the contract professional
  - also important because clerical staff sometimes work for multiple people
  - essential for human resources managers
* help leaders plan, prepare, conduct, and evaluate outdoor experiences.

Parenting skill
* are distinct from sexual orientation or gender identity.
* can help parents meet children's needs to respect limits as well as to feel loved.
* develop slowly, over time, through trial and error.
* help build children's social capital.

Salesmanship
* are skills.
* comprises every phase of human activity.

Showmanship
* is an art form of selling
  - important in exhibiting animals
  - the couples overall dancing ability
* is the one area of livestock showing over which the exhibitor has the most control
  - showing where the exhibitor has control
  - overall presentation by the handler and canine when performing
* requires training the animals to be in a ring with people and other animals.
* team effort between the exhibitor and the animal.